"Ideal I" or "Real I": Becky Sharp's Pursuit of Identity

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10.2991/ichssr-16.2016.6How to use a DOI?

Keywords

identity, self, ideal

Abstract

In 1848, one of the greatest English critical realistic writers, William Makepeace Thackeray published his novel Vanity Fair. In this novel, Thackeray presents a panoramic picture of English society in the early half of the nineteenth century, and reveals its social darkness and moral crisis. From childhood to adulthood, all the "Ideal I" she creates are all imaginative self. And from the beginning to the end, she always desires to identify herself with the imaginative "Ideal I", which is like the moon in the water, flower in the mirror and is never attainable. In her quest, she always wanders between the "Real I" and the "Ideal I".

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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