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DPitton - The Victorian Age and Fiction
by DPitton - (2011-04-10)
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VANITY FAIR

Storyline: Rebecca, an undisciplined English student, after finishing school finds herself in the borgeous world, witnessing all its hypocricy.
Setting:The novel takes place in England in the XIX century
Characters: Miss Rebecca Sharp, an intelligent but disrespectful young woman; Miss Amelia Sedley, a pedant and conformist student
Narrative technique: the narration is at the third person omniscent narrator, who is also intrusive: this highlights the typical conception of the Victorian narrator, who had to be superior and had to guide the reader.