An Analysis on Satirical Devices inHow to Live Well on Nothing a Year, Vanity FairIn How to Live Well on Nothing a Year, Vanity Fair, a quite representative excerpt, Thackeray abundantly and appropriately employs the satirical device by elaborate description of the well-crafted and compelling features of the characters in profoundly cynical and trenchant words, which outright reveals his marvelous capability in writing satire. To achieve the ironic artistic effect, he used various methods
