![]() ![]() Mira Nair takes a kind, comfortable look at Thackeray's character, negotiating her will to climb the social ladder with her role as mother, for example. By flattening Becky's sharp masculine ends, Nair's production seeks integration, restoring her from the periphery of Victorian mainstream discourses on identity to the centre. The paper will examine the dialogical interchange established between the Victorian text and postmodern notions of subjectivity and the extent to which this dialogue emerges in a re-presentation which feminises Becky. ![]() ![]() This paper addresses the reading of Thackeray's character that Mira Nair offers early 21st century audiences. Ultimately, Becky's 'masculine' wish for power is punished and she is pushed to the periphery of Victorian society. Thackeray's intertextual dialogue with other Victorian texts materialises in the masculinisation of Becky Sharp, necessary for her to attain the power she aims for within Victorian identity politics. Thackeray's Vanity Fair offered his readers a relentless critique of Victorian society through the portrayal of Becky Sharp's adventures. ![]()
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