The purpose of thе article is to explore the resources of psychological analysis in the poetics of the 19th-century English writer William Thackeray on the example of his novel «The History of Henry Esmond». The analysis of the literary text of the novel proves that Thackeray used various methods of psychological characterization: portrait as an impression, internal monologue, artistic detail, author’s comment, self-characterization and characterization of the hero by other characters, various forms of implication. Thackeray developed the technique of implication which is based on the use of leitmotifs and symbolic words-hints, omissions or substitution of internal features by an external background, on the discrepancy between speech and thought. The author draws the conclusion about the peculiar psychologism of the writer, who in the 1850s created complex ambiguous characters and made an in-depth study of individual personality.
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