Great expectations quotes: Class + Being a gentleman Flashcards
‘Heavy in figure ___________’
‘Heavy in figure, movement, and comprehension […] - he was idle, proud, niggardly, reserved, and suspicious’ - on Bentley Drummle, p246
‘the next heir ______’
‘the next heir but one to a baronetcy’ - on Bentley Drummle, p232
‘Who’s the ___!’
‘Who’s the spider!’ - Jaggers on Bentley Drummle, p257
‘The ________ fellow’
‘The blotchy, sprawly, sulky fellow’- Jaggers about Drummle, p257
‘Drummle showed __________ until he became downright intolerable’
‘Drummle showed his morose depreciation of the rest of us, in a more and more offensive degree until he became downright intolerable’ - p260
‘Drummle laughed _______’
‘Drummle laughed outright, and sat laughing in our faces’ p261
‘mounting in his _____’
‘mounting in his blundering brutal manner’ - p437
‘who had used her _____’
‘who had used her with great cruelty’ - p591
'’And you,’ said I, ‘are ____’’
'’And you, said I, ‘are the pale young gentleman’’ - Pip to Herbert, p211
‘no man who was not a gentleman ________’
‘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
‘a natural incapacity _____’
‘a natural incapacity to do anything secret and mean’ - Pip on Herbert, p214
‘He seemed so _____’
‘He seemed so brave and innocent’ - Pip on Herbert, p111
‘Herbert received me with open arms, and _____’
‘Herbert received me with open arms, and I had never felt before, so blessedly, what it is to have a friend’ - p417
‘Heavy in figure, movement, and comprehension […] - he was idle, proud, niggardly, reserved, and suspicious’ - p246
‘Heavy in figure, movement, and comprehension’ - tricolon emphasises his lack of positive characteristics
‘idle, proud, niggardly, reserved’ - asyndetic list highlights his many negative qualities
‘the next heir but one to a baronetcy’ - p232
Emphasises he is by birth more of a ‘gentleman’ than Pip or Herbert - however, this is not reflected in the way he acts
‘Who’s the spider!’ - p257
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)
‘The blotchy, sprawly, sulky fellow’ - p257
Jaggers on Drummle
Tricolon of adjectives highlights his grotesque description
‘Drummle showed his morose depreciation of the rest of us, in a more and more offensive degree until he became downright intolerable’ - p260
Drummle thinks he is better than everyone else - not a ‘gentlemanly’ quality
‘Drummle laughed outright, and sat laughing in our faces’ - p261
Condescending - an ungentlemanly quality
‘mounting in his blundering brutal manner’ - p437
ungentlemanly and without elegance
repeated plosive ‘b’ sounds emphasise this lack of elegance
'’And you,’ said I, ‘are the pale young gentleman’’
Pip holds Herbert in high esteem even after all the years - still thinks of him as a ‘gentleman’
Drummle’s negative characteristics
- ‘Heavy in figure, movement, and comprehension […] - he was idle, proud, niggardly, reserved, and suspicious’ - p246
- ‘The blotchy, sprawly, sulky fellow’ - p257
Drummle’s ungentlemanly qualities
- ‘Drummle showed his morose depreciation of the rest of us […]’ - p260
- ‘Drummle laughed outright, and sat laughing in our faces’ - p261
- ‘mounting in his blundering brutal manner’ - p437
Herbert’s positive qualities
- ‘a natural incapacity to do anything secret and mean’ - p214
- ‘He seemed so brave and innocent’ - p111
‘to look at my _______’
‘to look at my coarse hands and my common boots’ - p74
‘they had never troubled ______’
‘they had never troubled me before but they troubled me now’ - p74
