Great Expectations

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Bentley Drummle

Bentley Drummle is an unpleasant young man, heir to a baronetcy, who Pip encounters whilst being tutored at the Pockets’ House. He is depicted by Dickens as a detestable brute and exhibits a prevailing sense of arrogance and superiority which causes him to patronise Pip and the other characters around him.

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