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Dickens Side Chars.
YGK These Charles Dickens Characters Who Aren't Protagonists
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The jilted resident of Satis House who wears a wedding dress and keeps her clocks set to 8:40 | Miss Havisham |
| The man who jilted Miss Havisham and was a criminal associate of Abel Magwitch | Compeyson |
| Miss Havisham's adopted ward, conditioned to break men's hearts as an act of revenge | Estella |
| The escaped convict Pip aids as a child who later becomes Pip’s secret benefactor | Abel Magwitch |
| The country where Abel Magwitch made his fortune after being sent there for his crimes | Australia |
| The "repulsive" leader of a gang of young pickpockets in Oliver Twist | Fagin |
| The pickpocket who first introduces Oliver Twist to Fagin | The Artful Dodger |
| Oliver Twist’s half-brother who conspires with Fagin to steal Oliver’s inheritance | Monks |
| The vicious burglar and associate of Fagin who beats his girlfriend Nancy to death | Bill Sikes |
| The name of Bill Sikes’s dog, whom he eventually tries to drown | Bull’s-eye |
| The egotistical student at Salem House who seduces Emily and later drowns in a shipwreck | James Steerforth |
| The financially irresponsible but optimistic man who waits for "something to turn up" | Mr. Wilkins Micawber |
| The villainous clerk for Mr. Wickfield whose evil deeds are exposed by Micawber and David Copperfield | Uriah Heep |
| The Dickens character based on the author's own father, John Dickens | Mr. Wilkins Micawber |
| The bloodthirsty French revolutionary who records the names of those to be executed in her knitting | Madame Thérèse Defarge |
| The aristocratic family against whom Madame Defarge seeks revenge | The Evrémondes |
| The governess who accidentally shoots Madame Defarge during a struggle | Miss Pross |
| The one-eyed, cruel headmaster of Dotheboys Hall in Nicholas Nickleby | Wackford Squeers |
| The mistreated boy at Dotheboys Hall whom Nicholas Nickleby rescues from Squeers | Smike |
| The real-life cruel headmaster believed to be the inspiration for Wackford Squeers | William Shaw |
| The deceased business partner of Ebenezer Scrooge who appears to him on Christmas Eve | Jacob Marley |
| The object Marley's face first appears on before his ghost fully manifests to Scrooge | A doorknocker |
| The items weighing down the chain wrapped around Jacob Marley’s ghost | Padlocks and heavy cashboxes |
| The fiendish dwarf from The Old Curiosity Shop who attempts to marry "Little Nell" Trent | Daniel Quilp |
| The business Quilp seizes after Nell's grandfather gambles away borrowed money | The Old Curiosity Shop |
| The manner in which Daniel Quilp dies while fleeing from the police through the London fog | Drowning in the Thames (after falling off his wharf) |
| The utilitarian school superintendent in Hard Times who is obsessed with "Facts" | Thomas Gradgrind |
| The fictional northern English city that serves as the setting for Hard Times | Coketown |
| The daughter of Thomas Gradgrind who enters a loveless marriage with Josiah Bounderby | Louisa Gradgrind |
| The independent-minded circus girl who attends Gradgrind’s school | Cecilia “Sissy” Jupe |
| The schoolmaster employed by Thomas Gradgrind in Coketown | Mr. M’Choakumchild |