"Outline the nature of and attitudes to, powerplay in your found text and explain how the test uses particular techniques to shape its meaning and influence the responder. "

Written in the 19th Century, William Thackeray's novel Vanity Fair served as a blatant haranguing of the political and economic power-play evident in his society. However in 2004, when Mira Nair adapted the novel into a movie, she maintained Thackeray's integral themes- power-play versus truth - but instead portrayed the inter-relationship of power within the individual, which completely altered the meaning of the text. Nair personifies the power struggle through Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley, in binary opposition. Becky is an impoverished orphan who is determined to increase both her soci…