The text under study is taken from "vanity Fair...
W.M.Thackeray, one of the greatest English prose writers, provided the best portrait of the ruling classes of his country in the first half of the nineteenth century. Vanity fair is his masterpiece. It is a broad panorama of contemporary life written with power and brilliance.
In the given extract Rebecca sharp is the central figure, we see her cruel, selfish, unscrupulous.
In this extract we can find references to the lower classes. Here the lower classes are the servants. In their own way they criticize, they are always there observing and noticing things.
Thus, the theme of this extract is family relations and
The idea is to show the relations in the family are not normal, and there influence by the society represented be Lord Steven on the one hand and the servants on another hand.
The text is devided into two parts.
The first part is narrowing with dialog, the second part is digresses from the narration.
The first part can be dived into three subparts. The first part is exposition, it's called "Rawden and his attachments" here the author mentioned the time of the action, the place of the action and give some explanation of the characters. here we know about Rawdens attachments, and understand that there is some problem in this family.
The second part is the story with a climax, called "ear boxing incident. Where the author tells the reader about one episod about of the boys life, when he standing at the landing place, слушаю mother's voice, singing to The Lord steyne.
Suddenly his mother opened the door and struck him violently a couple of boxes on the ear.
He fled down to his friends to the kitchen....
The third logical part is deunouma, called kitchen inquisition. Here the author continues to tell us about Raw den and his relations with the mother . We learn that this relations became worth. That they were separated, besides the author describes relations between lord steyne and Rawden. And we understand that this relations are far from perfect. Because they always met by mischance, lord laughted at him, Rawden disliked him. Rawden defended himself, the only way he could. Rawden to the answer, squaring his fists to The Lord steyne'is hat.
The servants of all uniforms disscesed the boy's behavior and it looks as if it were inquisition which sits in judgment in every house and knows everything.
The story presents in third person narration. The prevalent mood is emotional, nervous, satirical, tenth, gloomy. It s ironical because
The main characters is Rawden, Rebecca,