The Functions Of "Letter" As an Element of The Narrative Structure of W. Thackeray's Novel "Vanity Fair"

Аннотация

The article examines the functions of "writing" as a way of contrasting the characters in W. Thackeray's novel "Vanity Fair". It is noted that the "letters" in the novel play an important role on a compositional and motivational level. Special attention is paid to the representation of the concept of "wealth" in the "letters" given in the novel. This analysis is informed by the current trends and approaches in reading narratives from the Victorian era, with a focus on the relations between Thackeray’s letters and imperialism, emotional distance, and performativity. Keywords: Writing, situation, context, reaction, artistic concept, motive, narrative structure. suggested that this type of narrator, often known as the Introduction: Narrative Form and Social Critique “Thackeray-type narrator”, functions on the basis of W. Thackeray's novel Vanity Fair is a large-volume work performance where he mimes character psychology in which the author reveals the vices of Victorian and frequently intermixes free indirect discourse with society. It was published in 1853. Continuing the authorial judgment to evoke rampant uncertainty. [8, existing national tradition of describing life in England, 22] following Fielding, W. Thackeray ridicules the immoral Research model of life in English society in his novel. It should be noted that the author chooses a peculiar form of Along with the Puppeteer's comments, W. Thackeray narrative in which he expresses his thoughts implicitly uses "letters" as a special component of the narrative [5,240], thereby showing his individual, creative structure. Following the literary tradition of the classic manner against the background of a traditional English English novel of the 19th century, in which "letters" are novel of the 19th century. The author personifies his considered a constructive element of a work of art, W. image in the novel as a Puppeteer who acts as an Thackeray, in the novel "Vanity Fair", in several cases, observer of everything that happens, thereby giving a refers to "letters" using their expressive possibilities. In subjective description of events. The Puppeteer's this article, we will consider the versatility of letters by comments emphasise the main idea of the novel, laid making a specific thematic classification. It seems that down by the author, that the world is fair where the parts of the novel in which the author uses "letters" everything has material value, and wealth occupies a as an element of narration provide an opportunity to higher position than moral qualities. Thanks to the consider "character subtexts" in their pure form [2,17], comments of the Puppeteer, the novel becomes determine the spatial and temporal separation of extremely logically structured. Thus, Nakao (2024) events, perform a communicative and pragmatic American Journal Of Philological Sciences 324 https://theusajournals.com/index.php/ajps American Journal Of Philological Sciences (ISSN – 2771-2273) function, and are also significant at the compositional response thus vindicates Harden’s (1967) assertion that level since they are included in the general context of Thackeray achieves a formal unity as he relates the the novel. Letters are a necessary element of the characters’ inner transformations and motifs in the use composition of a textual whole. As Glovinsky (2020, 96) of both the embedded and authorial narrator. pointed out, the application of the epistolary form by Secondly, letters in the novel are an essential Thackeray is purposeful since the novel in letters was structural component that determines the chronology gradually evolving into realism by the third-person of the novel's actions and serves as a means of defining omniscient narrator at the time of the writing. space-time relationships in the work. The novel "Vanity Therefore, the letters in Vanity Fair may be seen as Fair" was written by W. Thackeray chronologically, belonging to the bygone form of the novel but also as a taking into account the historical time of the action and means of distancing the reader on the part of the the narrative of the hero's life. Chronological author. storytelling is a logical way to create a social ladder DISCUSSION along which Rebecca ascends and establishes herself in a secular society in a short time. Therefore, U. Firstly, it is crucial to point out that the letters Thackeray needs events related to the storyline of mentioned in the novel are used as a tool for the Becky Sharp's rise up the social ladder. Note that the formation of characters. In this regard, it is necessary author points to the transformation of events through to agree with the ideas of O. V. Protopopova, based on the dynamics of space, which is significant in the work. which the first person can be viewed as the epistolary Note that the author indirectly indicates the time and form of psychological convincing, the actualisation of place of the events through the dates on the letters. the inner spiritual state of char