Bentley Drummle

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Bentley Drummle is a brutish, arrogant young nobleman in Charles Dickens's "Great Expectations," known for his cruelty, boorish manners, and ill-fated marriage to Estella.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional character
literary character
nobleman
appearsIn Great Expectations NERFINISHED
appearsInForm novel
associatedWithTheme abuse within marriage
corruption of the upper class
toxic masculinity
contrastedWith Herbert Pocket NERFINISHED
createdBy Charles Dickens NERFINISHED
deathCharacterization retributive
violent
describedBy Pip as "idle, proud, niggardly, reserved, and suspicious" NERFINISHED
diesBy accident with a horse
education student at the Pocket household tutoring circle
firstAppearsAs young man at Matthew Pocket’s tutoring household
friendOf Startop (fellow student) NERFINISHED
gender male
hasWealthSource estate in the country
languageOfWork English
legalClientOf Mr. Jaggers NERFINISHED
literaryPeriod Victorian literature
marriageOutcome unhappy
moralAlignment antagonistic
narrativeFunction foil to Pip
instrument of Estella’s suffering
nationality English
nicknameGivenBy Jaggers NERFINISHED
occupation landed gentleman
personalityTrait arrogant
boorish
brutish
bullying
cruel
stupid
sullen
residence country estate
rivalOf Pip NERFINISHED
romanticRelationship Estella NERFINISHED
romanticRivalFor Estella NERFINISHED
setIn 19th-century England
socialClass upper class
spouse Estella NERFINISHED
symbolizes moral ugliness beneath social privilege
title The Spider NERFINISHED
treatsSpouse cruelly

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Great Expectations character Bentley Drummle