| Acknowledgements | 第3-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-8页 |
| Introduction | 第8-27页 |
| William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair and its Critical Responses | 第8-15页 |
| William Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil and its Critical Responses | 第15-19页 |
| Comparability of Moral Choices Between Rebecca Sharp and Kitty Garstin | 第19-21页 |
| Ethical Criticism and Structure of the Thesis | 第21-27页 |
| Chapter 1 Marriage as the Starting Point of Moral Choices | 第27-40页 |
| 1.1 Treacherous Rebecca Sharp’s Secret Marriage with Rawdon Crawley | 第27-34页 |
| 1.2 Thoughtless Kitty Garstin’s Hasty Marriage with Walter Fane | 第34-37页 |
| 1.3 Comparison of the Premise for Their Marriages | 第37-40页 |
| Chapter 2 Loss of Morality in Pursuit of the Objects of Desire | 第40-51页 |
| 2.1 Becky Sharp’s Pursuit of Fame and Wealth | 第40-45页 |
| 2.2 Kitty Garstin’s Pursuit of Passion and Pleasure | 第45-48页 |
| 2.3 Comparison of Becky’s and Kitty’s Marital Waterloo | 第48-51页 |
| Chapter 3 Moral Values Influenced by Social Environment | 第51-57页 |
| 3.1 Becky Sharp Entrapped in the Victorian Snobbish Society | 第51-53页 |
| 3.2 Kitty Fane Stripped of the 1920s British Society | 第53-55页 |
| 3.3 Comparison of Becky’s and Kitty’s Punishment | 第55-57页 |
| Chapter 4 Reflection of Moral Orientation in Victorian and 1920s England | 第57-64页 |
| 4.1 Amelia Sedley as a Moral Model in the Victorian Society | 第57-59页 |
| 4.2 The Orient as a Milieu to Purify Kitty Fane’s Soul | 第59-61页 |
| 4.3 Comparison of Opposite Moral Orientation | 第61-64页 |
| Conclusion | 第64-67页 |
| Bibliography | 第67-72页 |
