In the nineteenth century, Britain became a powerful industrial kingdom, however, most of its resources remained in the hands of the rich, resulting in the poor getting poorer and the rich getting richer.
Thackeray said
When you see the lives of the poor, you have doubts about the merciful Divine.Thackeray grew up wealthy, and after his father's death left him a rich inheritance, he used the money to travel around to study and Xi, but in his twenties, he suddenly went bankrupt and had a difficult life.
Years later, looking back on his life as a young man, he said that there was not a day that was not wasted.
Later, he began to write, contributing to newspapers and magazines under various pseudonyms, publishing several books, and in 1847, when Vanity Fair was published, Thackeray became widely recognized as a genius.
He used humorous language to depict that in this huge vanity fair in the world, everyone is bound by fame and fortune, and often can't help themselves.
However, in the face of death, all this will cease to exist.
Thackeray said
Fame and fortune, all vanity!Who among us is truly happy?Who's Satisfied?Even if you get your wish at the time, you are still not satisfied afterwards?Yes, fame and fortune in the world are nothing but a vain after all. The journey of life is nothing but death after all, what is important?
The world is bustling, most of them are profitable, most people hate the poor and love the rich, and they tend to be inflammatory, all of which are snobbish.
In Thackeray's "Vanity Fair", there is no good person, and even in school, teachers are not as enthusiastic about poor students as they are for rich children.
Becky's life was rough, her father was an unknown painter, and her mother was a French woman who sang opera, which made her come to this Vanity Fair with a bad hand.
Unfortunately, before she finished her studies, her parents passed away, and she had to work part-time at school as a French teacher in exchange for her own Xi and room and board.
In the blink of an eye, her studies were completed and Becky left school.
Generally speaking, the principal will give each student who leaves a gift and a blessing, but Becky has no money and no power, so the principal doesn't care.
Becky leaves with her good friend Elmilia.
Emilia has a good family background, her father is a businessman, and she has a lot of money, and this girl has been pampered since she was a child, simple, and loves to cry and laugh.
When she leaves school, Emilia takes pity on Becky and has nowhere to go, so she invites Becky to stay at home.
Thackeray said
Two girls, since then, have been people.They walked into the world, into Vanity Fair, to face the ** of life, to face the pollution of fame and fortune, but also to face their own inner confusion. Vanity Fair, Vanity Fair, the world is a big dream, everything is nothing.
However, people come from nothingness, plunge headlong into nothingness, become lackeys of fame and fortune, and become strange things that are rare in the world.
Thackeray said
The world is a mirror, everyone can see their own shadow in it, you frown at it, it will give you a sour face, you smile at it, follow it happy, it is a happy and kind companion.In this world, Becky knows that she is helpless, she must become her own dependence, and she must arrange a good future for herselfSo, Becky says that she has never had a child and has been an adult woman since she was eight years old. At Emilia's house, seeing her friend's luxurious house and exquisite food, Becky thought to herself that if she could marry into such a family, she would have a good life for the rest of her life.
So, after learning that Emilia's brother Joseph has a good income and is not yet married, Becky is determined to conquer the other party.
For this reason, she talked nonsense and did not blush, Joseph was fat and timid, but Becky praised him in public for his manhood.
However, she is pretentious, scheming, unscrupulous and unpleasant to achieve her goals, at least, Emilia's mother, who hates Becky very much, and even wants to kick her out of the house, but for the sake of face, she still finds a decent reason to send Becky out of the house.
Disillusioned with being the wife of a rich family, Becky leaves, becoming the governess of the Crowley family.
The Crowley family had a complicated relationship, but there was one characteristic, it was a really large family, and the old Miss Crowley had a lot of money and no children, and she wanted to leave her property to her nephew Roden.
Becky is bent on living a good life, trying to climb into high society, and trying to be in the limelight at Vanity Fair, so she once again sets her sights on Roden.
While trying to please Miss Crowley Sr., Becky looks for an opportunity to get close to Rowden, and soon, Rodden falls in love with Becky, and the two secretly get the license.
This made old Miss Crowley angry, she felt that Becky was inferior and unworthy of her nephew, but Rodon was determined to take Becky away.
Vanity Fair, Vanity Fair, some people are happy and some are sad, some are proud and some are disappointed.
Life is an experience, whether it is good or bad, in the end, you will find that this experience has an end, that is, death.
Vanity Fair is also like a pigsty, and countless people are wallowing in the pigsty of fame and fortune until they finally lose themselves.
Here, Becky worked hard to climb into high society and live that rich and luxurious life.
She racked her brains and calculated carefully, thinking that she had finally achieved her goal, but her husband Rodon was a prodigal, and if the family did not give him money, he would not have much money at all.
Therefore, even if Becky marries the son of Roden, her life is still a mess, and she still tries her best to make herself look better, in fact, in order to make others think she is good.
Vanity Fair is like that, many people live in vanity and become slaves to vanity.
Over there, Emilia also fell into the trap of love, and she fell in love with the dashing Osborne.
But Emilia is a weak person, pure as a blank sheet of paper, a kind of person who is sometimes loved and sometimes hated.
She loves Osborne, and she is focused on Osborne himself, no matter what kind of person Osborne is, this kind of blindness is not uncommon in Vanity Fair.
Osborne, then, was a wanderer who had had enough of Emilia and wanted to leave her.
This made Emilia miserable.
Osborne's friend Dubin has always been in love with Emilia, and he can't bear to see Emilia in such pain, so he becomes a moon elder and helps Emilia match and convinces Osborne to let him return to Emilia.
Osborne does return to Emilia, but his father is very upset about it, because Emilia's father went bankrupt and Emilia became a poor girl with a low status.
After marriage, his father cut off his support for Osborne and left him to be self-reliant, which made life difficult for Emilia and Osborne.
Seeing this, Dubin decided to be a good man and lobbied Osborne's father to put aside his prejudices and accept Emilia.
But Dubin's persuasion had no effect, and this stubborn old man even wanted to cut off relations with his son, but blood was thicker than water, and many relationships could be broken if they were broken.
Unfortunately, before the father and son could reconcile, Osborne died on the battlefield, leaving Emilia orphaned and widowed to survive.
Life is a one-way journey that ends in death.
All we can have is to live as well as we can on our journey.
However, many people often fall into the whirlpool of fame, fortune and vanity during their journey, and forget to live a good life.
After Osborne's death, Emilia took her young son Joje and became a widow and had to learn to be a mother.
She has nowhere to go, no one to rely on, so she can only return to her parents.
But at this time, her parents are also poor and have a difficult life, and Emilia not only has to take care of her child Qiaojie, but also take care of her family.
Although his parents are bankrupt, they are still vain and still can't break free from the clutches of fame and fortune, he said to everyone around him
I have seen good times, and my daughter can be the wife of a colonel and a woman of high society if she wants to.Thackeray said
It seems that they are not troubled, and maybe they will be more proud after falling down than before.For life, Emilia didn't have time to feel, she dedicated all her time to her children, to her family, and herself, on the contrary, became unimportant, she learned to sew and mend, learned to do laundry and cook, and also learned to take care of others.
She didn't even have time to suffer.
Of course, such days may be more profound to her than the light pleasures of the past, and when she loves others selflessly, she is shining.
Her son Jojie grew up and became more and more beautiful, but she was also spoiled by Emilia to be willful, and she always didn't want to be bitter about the child, so her poor parents sometimes even complained
Emilia only has children in her heart, not parents.Then, the difficult life forces Emilia to give up on Jogger, and she sends him back to the old Osborne's house to live with his grandfather.
As he grew older, the elder Osborne became less and less prejudiced, and he wanted Qiao Jie to inherit the family property, so he devoted himself to raising his grandson in an attempt to make him a true nobleman.
But old Osborne still couldn't let go of his prejudice against Emilia, and he still couldn't accept this daughter-in-law.
In Vanity Fair, people are a kind of existence full of prejudices, they always live in all kinds of prejudices, and then create all kinds of prejudices.
However, everyone lives with problems, and what right do we have to look down on others, and what right do we have to judge others?
No, we don't have any power, and we become humble just thinking that everyone lives with problems.
For many years, Dobin has been silently in love with Emilia.
When Emilia had a difficult life, he had been silently taking care of her, never complaining, and he ** Miria, willing to be her slave.
And what about Elea?
She knew that Dubin loved her, but she was unwilling to accept Dubin, because she had her husband in her heart, but she was unwilling to let Dubin leave, she tried to control him with her feelings.
Because of Dubin's arrival, Emilia's life has changed.
For many years, she has always begged for a living in a lowly circle.
Now that Dobbin has returned, as has her brother Joseph, Emilia's life has improved dramatically, and she has even returned to high society.
When her father fell ill, Emilia took care of him all day, either guarding her children or attending to the sick in the ward, her face glowing with love like an angel.
Despite Emilia's careful care, her elderly and sick father died, and before he died, he finally realized that the old couple used to complain about their daughter, which was really unreasonable, it was simply ridiculous.
At the last moment of his life, perhaps he will recall what happened in this life, how he struggled in his early years, how he made a fortune later, and how he failed in his old age.
Fate finally defeated him, and he never had a chance to take revenge on fate, leaving no name or money behind him, only a piece of nothingness.
It doesn't matter if you succeed or fail, the sun rises as usual, and the world is still happy, but those who die die die forever.
Not long after, the elder Osborne also died unexpectedly, and before he died, he really let go of his prejudices against Emilia, and only then did he let go of the resentment in his heart, he left all his possessions in the world, and left naked.
People live and die, and the poor and the rich, like the rich, will become irrelevant in the face of death, and in the end, except for the closest people, no one cares that there has ever been such a person in this world.
The fame and fortune that you care about in life are nothing but a vanity in the end, and with the advent of death, it will become a joke and a piece of nothingness.
In Vanity Fair, there is no fixed number of good and bad, only impermanence.
Emilia was lucky enough to return to high society, and many people began to compliment her, seeing her as the pride of Vanity Fair.
But her friend Becky hates it.
After marrying Roden, Becky bothered to drill camp, clever words, lies, abduction, and for the sake of life, she said almost everything, although she was also in the limelight for a while, and seemed to be proud in Vanity Fair.
However, what does not belong to her will eventually be lost.
Becky neglects her son for the sake of external things, and she doesn't even know how old he is.
However, in the end, the bamboo basket was empty, and there was nothing left, and when she heard that Emilia had turned over, Becky, who was still wandering around, went to Emilia.
Emilia is soft-hearted, and seeing her friend suffering so much, Dobin is so soft-hearted that Dobin plans to tell Emilia Becky what she has done, but she doesn't listen to it at all, and she falls out with Dobin because of this.
Dubin leaves angrily, claiming that Emilia is so stupid that she is not worthy of her truest love.
Dubin's departure shocked Emilia, all along, Dubin was obedient in front of her, and she ruled and enslaved him because of this, enjoying his love, but unwilling to give him results, and now, Dubin is gone, and she feels that he is out of her control.
Therefore, Emilia is frightened and angry, and in fact, she also loves Dubin, so when she realizes her problem, she writes to Dubin and asks him to come back.
Since then, the two have lived happily together, working hand in hand in this Vanity Fair.
Becky is still camping in Vanity Fair, still living hypocritically, living blindly, she lives in fame and fortune, lives in vanity, and lives in death.
Someone died, someone lived.
There are those who are alive but already dead.
In this world, everyone may be a lackey of fame and fortune, but after some people react, they want to be their own masters, and they don't want to waste their time for this already vain thing.
Zhuangzi told a story:
Di Yao wanted to give the world to Xu You, but Xu You refused.
Xu You said:
You have governed the world so well, I will replace you again, don't I do it for fame and fortune?Fame and fortune are useless to me.Birds sit all over the forest, but when they nest, they only need a branch. Fish own the whole ocean, but they only need a small amount.
We human beings desperately want to increase our material resources, but we only eat three meals a day, and we only have three feet on the couch, and after death, we are just a handful of dust.
So, why bother chasing fame and fortune in this Vanity Fair?
However, there are always many people in this world who are enthusiastic about money, greedy for fame and fortune, and want to increase their fame and savings, but once death comes, they still can't take anything with them.
The most important thing for a person is to protect himself, and as for fame and fortune, but things outside the body, even life, will eventually be lost.
We should try to preserve our souls and live as we like, waiting for death to come, because life is an experience, and we will not rest until we die, nothing more.
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