tion of the term gentleman. There are two schools of thought as to what constitutes a gentleman in Great Expectations. The very crude and superficial, yet highly Victorian, ideas of Magwitch in which he has an obsessive delight in the social status he has bought for Pip: "which on you owns a brought-up London gentleman?" (Great Expectations p.339) show that, to him, a 'gentleman' is a man with high social status, wealth, education and sophisticated manners. However, the contrasting view given through Herbert Pocket and his father shows us that "no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner." (Great Expectations p.204) Although Herbert has very little money, he is unquestionably a gentleman, both in the social sense, as he is well born and has received an upper-class education, and in the moral sense, as he teaches Pip table manners and, by example, that manners are meaningless unless they derive from sound moral principles. This is also illustrated through Compeyson, Miss Havisham's lo
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