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In Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero, William Makepeace Thackeray uses "Vani-hats to illustrate his mock-heroic characters and to reinforce the novel's theme of tas Vanitatum/" Of these hats-including cocked hats, top hats, shovel-hats, shakos, and bonnets-the narrator's fool's cap is the most symbolically important. Adopting a dual perspective of "Satire and Sentiment," the narrator shows that "All is vanity." If the vanity of li fe is inescapable, he implies, then the only consolation is laughter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
