Conclusion. William Makepeace Thackeray (18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) is renowned for being the master of social satire. His writing is more realistic than that of the "novel of sensibility," a work from the early nineteenth century that sought to achieve enhanced emotional effects at the expense of plausible plot and characterization, and it is more in the style of Henry Fielding than Samuel Richardson. In both his previous writings and his first significant book, Vanity Fair, Thackeray attempted to counter the melodramatic and pretentious pleasure provided by authors like Edward Bulwer-Lytton, William Harrison Ainsworth, and even the early Charles Dickens. Instead, he aimed to reveal for his readers the literary and social hypocrisy that, in his view, was typical of the era. To accomplish this, he wrote early essays under a number of pseudonyms; these personas can be regarded as foreshadowings of those he would later utilize in his novels. While reviewing both art and literature for publications like Fraser's Magazine and The New Monthly Magazine, Thackeray adopted the Yellowplush and Titmarsh signatures, enabling him to playfully mock what he regarded to be false. No less harsh were his critiques of the current propensity to exalt criminals and outlaws, as evidenced by the popular "Newgate Novels" series. Instead, he aimed to reveal for his readers the literary and social hypocrisy that, in his view, was typical of the era. To accomplish this, he wrote early essays under a number of pseudonyms; these personas can be regarded as foreshadowings of those he would later utilize in his novels. While reviewing both art and literature for publications like Fraser's Magazine and The New Monthly Magazine, Thackeray adopted the Yellowplush and Titmarsh signatures, enabling him to playfully mock what he regarded to be false. No less harsh were his critiques of the current propensity to exalt criminals and outlaws, as evidenced by the popular "Newgate Novels" series. "Punch's Prize Novelists," a compilation of parodic rewrites of famous authors' works, was released. But rather than a collection of isolated anecdotes, Thackeray's longer works provide readers a thorough investigation of human nature under the supervision of a witty persona whose critical leaning is constrained by the realization that he himself participates in the shortcomings of his own characters. Thackeray was influenced by Samuel Johnson in addition to Fielding's prefaces to the different volumes of The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749). A sensible person will stoically accept the world as it is because an ideal world is impossibly unachievable, according to Johnson's conclusion to Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (1759). For instance, Thackeray helped pave the way for masters of psychological realism and irony like Henry James and James Joyce with his experiments with identity in The History of Henry Esmond, Esquire, a memoir-style novel. Additionally, Thackeray foreshadows works like John Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga by experimenting with the generational form, which combines different novels based on the familial ties of its protagonists. When he recounted the affairs of Henry Esmond's descendants and the change of the beautiful Beatrix Esmond into a worldly old woman in The Virginians, he was also quietly investigating the type of hereditary and environmental impact that the naturalists classified as determinism.