サッカレーのユーモア : Vanity Fairの場合

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Vanity Fair, a long novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, is full of humorous scenes and the narrator's satirical and interesting comments on various matters. These scenes and asides not only amuse the readers but also enable readers to understand the characters. Such scenes and the narrator's comments often cause smiles and laughter. In this paper some of the humorous expressions and comments and their effects will be dealt with. Fifteen such scenes or comments as well as their functions within the context of the novel will be explained and their true messages will be made clear. It might be said that the narrator of the novel makes use of humor and wit as a means to warn readers to avoid vanity, false pride, snobbery, hypocrisy, deceit, greed, and other foibles. Although the narrator's point of view is sometimes unsteady, he seems to be Thackeray himself, and is very generous in his judgment of human defects, and even of vice.
2009-04-01