Great expectations quotes: Class + Being a gentleman

Question 1

‘Heavy in figure ___________’

Answer 1

‘Heavy in figure, movement, and comprehension […] - he was idle, proud, niggardly, reserved, and suspicious’ - on Bentley Drummle, p246

Question 2

‘the next heir ______’

Answer 2

‘the next heir but one to a baronetcy’ - on Bentley Drummle, p232

Question 3

‘Who’s the ___!’

Answer 3

‘Who’s the spider!’ - Jaggers on Bentley Drummle, p257

Question 4

‘The ________ fellow’

Answer 4

‘The blotchy, sprawly, sulky fellow’- Jaggers about Drummle, p257

Question 5

‘Drummle showed __________ until he became downright intolerable’

Answer 5

‘Drummle showed his morose depreciation of the rest of us, in a more and more offensive degree until he became downright intolerable’ - p260

Question 6

‘Drummle laughed _______’

Answer 6

‘Drummle laughed outright, and sat laughing in our faces’ p261

Question 7

‘mounting in his _____’

Answer 7

‘mounting in his blundering brutal manner’ - p437

Question 8

‘who had used her _____’

Answer 8

‘who had used her with great cruelty’ - p591

Question 9

'’And you,’ said I, ‘are ____’’

Answer 9

'’And you, said I, ‘are the pale young gentleman’’ - Pip to Herbert, p211

Question 10

‘no man who was not a gentleman ________’

Answer 10

‘no man who was not a gentleman at heart ever was […] no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself’ - Matthew Pocket’s view on being a gentleman as told by Herbert, p218

Question 11

‘a natural incapacity _____’

Answer 11

‘a natural incapacity to do anything secret and mean’ - Pip on Herbert, p214

Question 12

‘He seemed so _____’

Answer 12

‘He seemed so brave and innocent’ - Pip on Herbert, p111

Question 13

‘Herbert received me with open arms, and _____’

Answer 13

‘Herbert received me with open arms, and I had never felt before, so blessedly, what it is to have a friend’ - p417

Question 14

‘Heavy in figure, movement, and comprehension […] - he was idle, proud, niggardly, reserved, and suspicious’ - p246

Answer 14

‘Heavy in figure, movement, and comprehension’ - tricolon emphasises his lack of positive characteristics
‘idle, proud, niggardly, reserved’ - asyndetic list highlights his many negative qualities

Question 15

‘the next heir but one to a baronetcy’ - p232

Answer 15

Emphasises he is by birth more of a ‘gentleman’ than Pip or Herbert - however, this is not reflected in the way he acts

Question 16

‘Who’s the spider!’ - p257

Answer 16

Jaggers on Drummle
Spiders - predatory, entrapping, grotesque/feared/repellent - foreshadows the catching of Estella - associates him with Satis House + Miss Havisham (another character who uses her money/status to trap and - ultimately - harm others)

Question 17

‘The blotchy, sprawly, sulky fellow’ - p257

Answer 17

Jaggers on Drummle
Tricolon of adjectives highlights his grotesque description

Question 18

‘Drummle showed his morose depreciation of the rest of us, in a more and more offensive degree until he became downright intolerable’ - p260

Answer 18

Drummle thinks he is better than everyone else - not a ‘gentlemanly’ quality

Question 19

‘Drummle laughed outright, and sat laughing in our faces’ - p261

Answer 19

Condescending - an ungentlemanly quality

Question 20

‘mounting in his blundering brutal manner’ - p437

Answer 20

ungentlemanly and without elegance
repeated plosive ‘b’ sounds emphasise this lack of elegance

Question 21

'’And you,’ said I, ‘are the pale young gentleman’’

Answer 21

Pip holds Herbert in high esteem even after all the years - still thinks of him as a ‘gentleman’

Question 22

Drummle’s negative characteristics

Answer 22

1. ‘Heavy in figure, movement, and comprehension […] - he was idle, proud, niggardly, reserved, and suspicious’ - p246
2. ‘The blotchy, sprawly, sulky fellow’ - p257

Question 23

Drummle’s ungentlemanly qualities

Answer 23

1. ‘Drummle showed his morose depreciation of the rest of us […]’ - p260
2. ‘Drummle laughed outright, and sat laughing in our faces’ - p261
3. ‘mounting in his blundering brutal manner’ - p437

Question 24

Herbert’s positive qualities

Answer 24

1. ‘a natural incapacity to do anything secret and mean’ - p214
2. ‘He seemed so brave and innocent’ - p111

Question 25

‘to look at my _______’

Answer 25

‘to look at my coarse hands and my common boots’ - p74

Question 26

‘they had never troubled ______’

Answer 26

‘they had never troubled me before but they troubled me now’ - p74