Vanity

Francesca 2022-03-25 09:01:23

After reading it, I searched the English dictionary for an accurate explanation of vanity. It looks like this: something (such as a belief or a way of behaving) which shows that you have too much pride in yourself, your social status, etc.

Once, when I was studying Buddhism, I asked the teacher: Since everything is empty, why do you have to work hard? The teacher said that because everything is empty, we should work hard, because emptiness has room for us to change. After watching this video, I thought of this again. Beca, a girl from the bottom of the society at that time, beautiful, wise, smart, ambitious, goal-oriented, with a strong heart, knows her own needs, the most important thing is, I also saw the love in her heart in the film, to her her husband, her friend.


I thought of Zhen Huan's biography again. Although there are many differences, I think she and Zhen Huan both have goals, know what they want, and have people they love.

Each of us desires fame and fortune, however, we occasionally lack awe, forget our goals, and forget to go with the flow. I think this movie taught us a lesson.

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Extended Reading

Vanity Fair quotes

  • Becky Sharp: Rawdon, wait! WAIT! I'm sorry! You cannot know the journey I have made.

    Rawdon Crawley: I should. I traveled it with you.

    Becky Sharp: Not from the beginning. Rawdon, in my way, I have love you.

    Rawdon Crawley: Then that has been your misfortune.

    Rawdon Crawley: [pauses]

    Rawdon Crawley: Goodbye Rebecca.

    [leaves]

    Becky Sharp: [screams in despair]

  • George Osborne: [as Becky plays a piano forte] So, Miss Sharp. How do you like your new place?

    Becky Sharp: My place? How kind of you to remind me. It's quite tolerable, thank you. And they treat me very well. But then, this is a gentleman's family... and quite a change from tradespeople.

    George Osborne: You seemed to like tradespeople well enough last year.

    Becky Sharp: Joseph Sedley, you mean? It's true. If he'd ask me, I would not have said no.

    George Osborne: How very obliging of you.

    Becky Sharp: I know what you're thinking. What an honor to have had you for a brother in-law. Captain George Osborne, son of John Osborne, Esquire, son of... what was your grandfather?

    [George remains silent and stern]

    Becky Sharp: Never mind. You cannot help your pedigree.