![]() ![]() Osbourne strangely sympathetic (when he wasn't encouraging his grandson to be a bully). We do get a handful of more serious interludes, centred on war and death. ![]() His base argument is that such is life, and only a fool would expect nothing but Amelia to represent the real world around us. Vanity Fair is filled with almost universally unlikeable characters (Captain Dobbin is the reader's life preserver in this morass, and Amelia to a lesser extent), but at least we can laugh at them, and the author acknowledges their faults by inserting some amusing commentary, ostensibly in their defence. Charlotte Bronte deeply admired this work and author, so I wonder how she didn't see this parallel with her sister Emily's "Wuthering Heights" which only seemed to trouble her.Perhaps the humour is the difference. If this helped widen the door to authors introducing more wicked protagonists in future, so much the better. This novel makes example of Becky's story as a demonstration that she can be the more interesting character versus Amelia that is, that a reader will be most intrigued by whichever character is most active and eventful, rather than merely the most moral. ![]()
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