Editing Great Expectations (section)

===Antagonists===
* [[Compeyson]], a convict who escapes the prison ship after Magwitch, who beats him up ashore. He is Magwitch's enemy. A professional swindler, he was engaged to marry Miss Havisham, but he was in league with her half-brother, [[Arthur Havisham]], to defraud Miss Havisham of part of her fortune. Later he sets up Magwitch to take the fall for another swindle. He works with the police when he learns Abel Magwitch is in London, fearing Magwitch after their first escapes years earlier. When the police boat encounters the one carrying Magwitch, the two grapple, and Compeyson drowns in the [[River Thames|Thames]].
* [[Arthur Havisham]], younger half brother of Miss Havisham, who plots with Compeyson to swindle her.
* Dolge Orlick, [[journeyman]] blacksmith at Joe Gargery's [[forge]]. Strong, rude and sullen, he is as churlish as Joe is gentle and kind. He ends up in a fistfight with Joe over Mrs Gargery's taunting, and Joe easily defeats him. This sets in motion an escalating chain of events that leads him secretly to assault Mrs Gargery and to try to kill her brother Pip. The police ultimately arrest him for housebreaking into Uncle Pumblechook's, where he is later jailed.
* Bentley Drummle, a coarse, unintelligent young man from a wealthy noble family being "the next [[heir]] but one to a [[baronetcy]]".<ref>{{cite book |title=Great Expectations – York Notes |publisher=York Notes |url=https://www.yorknotes.com/gcse/english-literature/great-expectations-gcse-2017/study/characters/01070200_minor-characters |access-date=3 September 2019 |quote=Drummle is a fellow student at Matthew Pocket's whom Pip first meets in Chapter 23 not long after his arrival in London. Mrs Pocket is distracted by Drummle's being ‘the next heir but one to a baronetcy’ (Ch. 23, p. 186) |archive-date=3 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190903025234/https://www.yorknotes.com/gcse/english-literature/great-expectations-gcse-2017/study/characters/01070200_minor-characters |url-status=live }}</ref> Pip meets him at Mr Pocket's house, as Drummle is also to be trained in gentlemanly skills. Drummle is hostile to Pip and everyone else. He is a rival for Estella's attentions and eventually marries her and is said to abuse her. He dies from an accident following his mistreatment of a horse.