Abstract

     William Makepeace Thackeray is an outstanding novelist in Britain at the beginning of the nineteenth Century. His masterpiece Vanity Fair is a famous critical-realism novel, depicting the hypocrisy and ugliness of the upper class in Britain in the nineteenth Century. In the novel, two beautiful heroines were differently portrayed as the gentle, kind-heart but weak girl------Amelia; and Rebecca, who is clever, despicable even at all to climb to the upper society, which shows how these two completely different girls face their own destiny. This paper will analyze the image of the two heroines to discover the fight and helplessness of women at that time.

Key words: Vanity Fair； Image of Female； Amelia； Rebecca.

摘要

威廉·梅克皮斯·萨克雷是英国十九世纪初杰出的小说家。他的代表作《名利场》是一部著名的讽刺性批判现实主义小说，描绘了十九世纪英国中上层社会里的丑陋、虚伪等。在小说中，两位漂亮的女主人公分别被描绘成温柔、善良却又柔弱的艾米丽娅，和聪明、卑鄙，甚至不惜一切以求攀上上流社会的瑞贝卡，展现了当时两个完全不同类型的女孩如何面对自己的命运。本文将对两位截然不同的女性形象进行分析，解读在当时的社会环境下女性的抗争与无奈。

关键词：《名利场》，女性形象，艾米丽娅，瑞贝卡