Satire on England Middle Class Society in William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair

The word literature often appears in our daily life, but until this time there is no perfect definition that can explain this word exactly. According to Long (1945:3), literature is the expression of life in the words of thruth and beauty; it is the written record of man’s spirit, of his thought, emotions, and aspiration; it is the history, and the only history of the human soul. Literature gives the people love, faith, duty and friendship. In this thesis the writer tries to analysis about satire aspect which is reflected in Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray. According to Holman, (1970:473) satire is a literary manner that blends a critical attitude with humor and wit to the end that human institution or humanity may be improved. Satire is artistic form, chiefly literary and dramatic, in which human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of ridicule, derision, burlesque, irony, or other methods, sometimes with an intent to bring about improvement. The writer of this thesis uses genetic structuralism approach which analyses the novel based on the intrinsic and the extrinsic aspects. The objectives of this research are to find out kinds of the satiric methods used in Vanity Fair and to find out the way how Thackeray satirizes the middle class society in England through his novel Vanity Fair. From the analysis which is done it can be concluded that in Vanity Fair, found Thackeray uses almost all of the satiric methods. The quotation which is finds by the writer is in the form of dia logue between one character and each others. The writer does not find the other from the expressions, events and discourses. In Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray satirizes the England middle class society through the characters and the society which is appear in the novel. He used some family portrait to illustrate the England middle class society in that time. Thackeray saw how capitalism and imperialism with their emphasis on wealth, material goods, and ...