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Rebecca "Becky" Sharp, later describing herself as Rebecca, Lady Crawley, is the main protagonist of William Makepeace Thackeray's 1847–48 novel Vanity Fair. She is presented as a cynical social climber who uses her charms to fascinate and seduce upper-class men.
Becky Sharp is a 1935 American Technicolor historical drama film directed by Rouben Mamoulian and starring Miriam Hopkins who was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar. Other supporting cast were William Faversham, Frances Dee, Cedric Hardwicke, Billie Burke, Alison Skipworth, Nigel Bruce, and Alan Mowbray . The film is based on the 1899 play of ...
Rebecca “Becky” Sharp begins the story as an orphan who is friends with Amelia. The two of them meet at Miss Pinkerton ’s school, where Amelia follows the rules but Becky always challenges authority.
Rebecca Sharp, called Becky, is Amelia's opposite: an intelligent, conniving young woman with a gift for satire. She is described as a short, sandy-haired girl who has green eyes and a great deal of wit. Becky is born to a French opera dancer mother and an art teacher and artist father Francis.
Becky Sharp, fictional character, an amoral adventuress in William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair (1847–48), a novel of the Regency period (roughly the second decade of the 19th century) in England. She has been considered one of the most vivid characters in English.
Rebecca “Becky” Sharp is the quintessential social climber. Clever, charming, and beautiful, Becky early on realizes that the key to a life of ease and pleasure lies in acquiring more money and achieving higher social status.
Becky Sharp: Directed by Rouben Mamoulian. With Miriam Hopkins, Frances Dee, Cedric Hardwicke, Billie Burke. Against the backdrop of Napoleon's Waterloo campaign, an ambitious woman from a family of entertainers begins a destructive climb up the social ladder.
Rebecca (Becky) Sharp, an intelligent, beautiful, self-centered, and grasping woman whose career begins as an orphaned charity pupil at Miss Pinkerton’s School for girls and continues...
A poor orphan of low birth, Becky Sharp is a born hustler and almost sociopathic striver who manages to raise herself to the upper limits of high society and wealth, only to see her achievements crumble under the weight of her bad deeds.
The novel deals mainly with the interwoven fortunes of two women, the wellborn, passive Amelia Sedley and the ambitious, essentially amoral Becky Sharp, the latter perhaps the most memorable character Thackeray created. The adventuress Becky is the novel’s central character and the person around whom all the actors revolve.
