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Historic novelist Thackeray studied with passion the time when Middle-class England was consolidating. Is the age, in which abandoning the puritan clothes, necessary in the battle against the frivol nobility, the English citizen thinks to combine the power and the wealth with the recreation offered by noble traditions, traditions which the new upstart sees them poetic transformed. Despising his own past of hard work and wining, envying and imitating the owners of a worldly (secular) tradition of a worthlessly life, the citizen becomes a snob. That is why the snobbism is typical for Thackeray, typical for an age form England history, that is why, as he confesses himself, the wish to write about snobs became necessity for this realistic. Thackeray pictures the ample typology of snobbism. He speaks about politicians" snobs, literary snobs, graduated snobs, clerkly snobs, country snobs and the theatre snobs and club snobs. In the scenery suggesting the ridicules imitation of aristocracy by the vulgar riches, we find the seed of futures novels like Vanity Fair. .
             The vehemence of the book must be associated with the climate of 1848, which in England like on the continent meant a moment of affirmation of the social democrat forces. .
             Vanity Fair- is the vast satirical panorama of a materialistic society centres on Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley, good-natured but 'silly'. They are two boarding-school friends, whose destinies are contrasted. Clever and ambitious Becky is born into poverty as the daughter of a penniless artist. Her plans to marry Amelia's brother Joseph fail. She marries Rowdon Crawley, but he is disinherited. Becky manages to live at the height of fashion through the patronage of Lord Steyne. When her husband discovers the truth, he departs to become the governor of Coventry Island. Becky is ostracized and she moves to the Continent. In the meantime Amelia's stockbroker father is ruined.