Vanity Fair

Assignment on VANITY FAIR

Watch "Vanity Fair" describe a moment in the movie (first paragraph) using descriptive language as an introduction and a second paragraph with a monologue by one of the main characters (Becky, Rawdon, Amelia)

A multitude of wounded and worn out soldiers as well as civilian fleeing town was packing the narrow dirt track and the roman bridge over that arm of the Sambre. All there was chaos from the town square to the woods, through the bridge and the road. The day before the British soldiers had abruptly left to the front in the middle of the splendid Ball the Duchess was throwing. The civilians were too close to the front line to stay there safely, so that they all were trying to hurriedly quit Brussels and return to the safety of London. The whole town was terrified under the menace of the war outside and the village has been almost completely abandoned. The sound of the soldiers marching and the horses neighing carried yards away through the rivers and into the woods. On the road, striding through the woods, one could hear the screeching of the wheels of the overcrowded carriages, household objects clanging and banging hardly tied and the steps of people fleeing from the danger on foot pattering the ground. Ms Crawley had changed his husband's horse for a seat in Lord Darlington's carriage. But Rebecca had not taken her seat yet, when, at the last moment, she notice her dearest friend Amelia Osborne frenetically looking for news from the front about her husband; agitated, the piteous girl was shouting question to each soldier she saw. Amelia was determined to stay in the village waiting for Captain Osborn to return. Rebecca decided to take care of her and stay too. While she was taking her back to their residence, she remembered the words that Amelia's husbands, the young and arrogant George Osborne, gallantly whispered to her last night during their first and only waltz: "You're not like Amelia, Mrs. Crawley. Nothing will quench your fire."

"I need that fire, the strength to manage and to go on with neither breeding nor money. I know I will survive to this war. I have promised it to Rawdon and I still

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