Present a critical assessment of William Makepeace Thackeray as a Victorian novelist.

1   1. Present a critical assessment of William Makepeace Thackeray as a Victorian novelist.

Answer:-  William Makepeace Thackeray was a British novelist. He began writing articles and send them to a newspaper that would print theme. Thackeray began to contribute regularly to Fraser’s Magazine Morning Chronicle and The Times .His first writing attracted in Punch, where he satirized English Snobbery.As a Victorian, he knew the chaos and problem of Victorian society.He presents the problems of Victorian society in a satirical manner.

                                                            While he was struggling to earn money from magazines, he wrote Henry Esmond (1852).As a realist, he shows not the pride and pomp of war, which are largely delusions, but its brutality and barbarism which are all too real, painting the generals and leaders not as the newspaper heroes, but as intrigues, pretty jealous and selfish ambitions which were common in Victorian society.

                                                            Vanity Fair(1848) is the best known of Thackeray’s novel.It was his first great work and was intended to express his own view of the social life of the Victorian era. His second important novel Pendennis (1849-50), this novel show the selfishness of Victorian society.He portrays the contemporary scenes in his novel The Newcomes(1853-55). This work is essentially a detailed story of a prosperous middle-class society.Some of his other popular novels are The Virginians(1857-59),The Adventure of Philip(1861-62).

                                                            Thackeray’s writing is definitely Victorian in his historical sense . He wrote the hidden realities of Victorian society, he intended towards savagery in his attacks on high society, military powers, the institution of marriage and hypocrisy.His intention was to improve the Victorian society by satirizing the foibles of society.T hough ,after reading his novel ,anyone can identify him as a Victorian novelist.Actually, he was a great Victorian novelist and for his great work, he is still alive among us.