Theme: Willilam Makepeace Thackeray works Checked by: Farhod Samadov Student: Pirnazarov Alibek contents : Introduction 2 chapter I. William Makepeace Thackeray, his early life and literary career

Theme: Willilam Makepeace Thackeray works
Checked by: Farhod Samadov


Student: Pirnazarov Alibek


CONTENTS :

Introduction ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2
CHAPTER I. William Makepeace Thackeray, his early life and literary career

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   Victorian age in English literature ---------------------------------------------------4
   
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   Literary career of Thackeray -----------------------------------------------------------7
   

CHAPTER II. Vanity Fair- a novel without a hero
2.1 Plot overview of Vanity Fair --------------------------------------------------------14
2.2 Critical analysis of this novel -------------------------------------------------------21
Conclusion -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------34
References -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------36


INTRODUCTION
William Makepeace Thackeray 18 July 1811 – 24 December 1868 was a British novelist, author and illustrator. He is known for his satirical works, particularly his 1848 novel Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of British society, and the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon, which was adapted for a 1975 film by Stanley Kubrick.
Thackeray, an only child, was born in Calcutta, British India, where his father, Richmond Thackeray was secretary to the Board of Revenue in the East India Company. His mother, Anne Becher was the second daughter of Harriet Becher and John Harman Becher, who was also a secretary (writer) for the East India Company. His father was a grandson of Thomas Thackeray, headmaster of Harrow School. Richmond died in 1815, which caused Anne to send her son to England that same year, while she remained in India. The ship on which he travelled made a short stopover at Saint Helena, where the imprisoned Napoleon was pointed out to him. Once in England, he was educated at schools in Southampton and Chiswick, and then at Charterhouse School, where he became a close friend of John Leech. Thackeray disliked Charterhouse, and parodied it in his fiction as "Slaughterhouse". Nevertheless, Thackeray was honoured in the Charterhouse Chapel with a monument after his death. Illness in his last year there, during which he reportedly grew to his full height of six-foot three, postponed his matriculation at Trinity College, Cambridge, until February 1829.[citation needed] Never too keen on academic studies, Thackeray left Cambridge in 1830, but some of his earliest published writing appeared in two university periodicals, The Snob and The Gownsman. Thackeray began as a satirist and parodist, writing works that displayed a sneaking fondness for roguish upstarts, such as Becky Sharp in Vanity Fair and the title characters of The Luck of Barry Lyndon and Catherine. In his earliest works, written under such pseudonyms as Charles James Yellowplush, Michael Angelo Titmarsh and George Savage Fitz-Boodle, he tended towards savagery in his attacks on high society, military prowess, the institution of marriage and hypocrisy.
One of his earliest works, "Timbuctoo", contains a burlesque upon the subject set for the Cambridge Chancellor's Medal for English Verse. (The contest was won by Tennyson with a poem of the same title, "Timbuctoo"). Thackeray's writing career really began with a series of satirical sketches now usually known as The Yellowplush Papers, which appeared in Fraser's Magazine beginning in 1837. These were adapted for BBC Radio 4 in 2009, with Adam Buxton playing Charles Yellowplush.
Between May 1839 and February 1840 Fraser's published the work sometimes considered Thackeray's first novel, Catherine. Originally intended as a satire of the Newgate school of crime fiction, it ended up being more of a picaresque tale. He also began work, never finished, on the novel later published as A Shabby Genteel Story.