The author himself called his best work “Vanity Fair” a novel without a hero. He set this novel against all the canons of the classical English literature of his time, where a clearly defined main hero was expected to act from clear motives. Thackeray believed it would be far more interesting to study and describe evil rather than good; vices and pettiness rather than virtue—and by doing so, exposing pettiness and ugliness through a multitude of characters, each with his own unique portrait and character. William Thackeray’s artistic techniques echo the works of Charles Dickens, and at the same time, he is merciless in his satirical depiction of people whose actions are inseparable from vice.