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SPagarin - 5B The Victorian Age and Fiction; Activities Cap. 30 Vanity Fair
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  • 1) From this behaviour I can infer: worry, preoccupation, caution, affection, faith, altruism, fear, melancholy, yearning, sadness.
  • 2) Rebecca does not want to manifest her feelings. She restrains what she feels. She is worried about how she looks, about her phisical appearance. She is attached to her pleasant memories and she recollects them to console herself.
  • 3) My impression of Rebecca's character is not confirmed. She is not turbed or frustrated as she seemed to be. She is a very calculating person (she passed the morning disposing, ordering, looking out her properties..)
  • 4) Thackeray uses irony and parody to highlight the vices and the hypocrisy of the characters. For example, Rebecca is characterized through irony and exaggeration as a social climber, attached to material properties. The reader is not free to form opinions on the characters. The narrator criticizes indirectly Rebecca and her world, considering all their vices and faults. Rebecca is shown as a woman who is searching to earn money and to reach a higher social level through hypocrisy and cunning.