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• W2891837766 abstract "In Vanity Fair, Becky Sharp enjoys what Adam Smith calls the “toil and bustle” of commercial society. She wants to better her condition and seeks to increase her fortune, but most of all she desires power over others. Becky has a keen sense of hierarchy and believes her rightful place is at the top of the power pyramid. What sets her apart from other ambitious people is the pleasure she takes in working the machinery of society on her way to the top. Becky knows how to manipulate the vain people around her and happily uses them as means to her end. She enjoys the fitness of her skills to the goals she wants to achieve. Becky is the vivacious, ironic counterpart of Smith’s famous “poor man’s son” who strives to obtain the luxuries flaunted by the rich. The poor man’s son’s ambition drives him to work hard his entire life just to find that he was deluded about the happiness these luxuries seemed to promise. Becky, on the other hand, finds pleasure in the toil and bustle itself; she is ambitious and a social climber but ultimately it is her desire to dominate others that motivates her. Like Smith, Becky recognizes that vanity drives industry, but unlike the poor man’s son in TMS and the many vain characters in VF who lack self awareness, she is not a cog in the machine but a master of it." @default.
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• W2891837766 title "Ambition, the Poor man’s Son, and the Poor man’s Daughter" @default.
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