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Rebecca Sharp—generally known as Becky—is the main character in Thackeray's satirical novel, Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero, which was published incrementally between 1847 and 1848. Thackeray wished to counter the prevailing belief in society that it was impossible for women to create a fashionable self-image.
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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. After leaving the school, Becky decides that the only way for her to advance her low social position is to marry a man who’s richer than she is.
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, 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.
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Rebecca “Becky” Sharp . The protagonist of the novel and Rawdon Crawley’s wife. Becky is the orphaned daughter of an English artist and a French dancer. She is clever, scheming, manipulative, and charming. Becky’s goal is to acquire social standing and money, and she will use people in any capacity to further that goal.
Character Analysis Rebecca Sharp. Child of a poor artist and a French opera girl, Becky Sharp early learns to shift for herself. Her mother dead, Becky's father with "a great propensity for running into debt, and a partiality for the tavern" brings her up.
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.
