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The final completed novel by Creator/CharlesDickens, and quite possibly his [[DarkerAndEdgier darkest]].
A body is found floating on the Thames, identified as John Harmon, the heir to a great fortune, and -- well -- things go from nasty to nastier, and one of the biggest and [[GambitPileup most complicated]] plotlines in literature begins, set against a backdrop of VictorianLondon (and the [[UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain surrounding countryside]]), the river Thames in particular.
A body is found floating on the Thames, identified as John Harmon, the heir to a great fortune, and -- well -- things go from nasty to nastier, and one of the biggest and [[GambitPileup most complicated]] plotlines in literature begins, set against a backdrop of VictorianLondon (and the [[UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain surrounding countryside]]), the river Thames in particular.
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: The book's focus on sympathetic Jewish characters was born directly out of criticism that Creator/CharlesDickens received towards his portrayal of Fagin as an unambiguously evil GreedyJew in ''Literature/OliverTwist''. Dickens denied that he wrote Fagin with antisemitic intent, stating that "I have no feeling towards the Jews but a friendly one," but viewed the response he got from Jewish readers as a wake-up call.
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The story weaves together multiple plot strands, exploring the consequences of John Harmon's misadventure for the various people connected to it, including Mr and Mrs Boffin, servants to Old Mr Harmon who inherit his fortune in the absence of surviving Harmons; Bella Wilfer, who was to have married John Harmon and now faces an uncertain future; Mortimer Lightwood and Eugene Wrayburn, the Harmon family's lawyers; and even the family of Gaffer Hexam, the boatman who found the body.
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A body is found floating on the Thames, identified as John Harmon, the heir to a great fortune, and -- well -- things go from nasty to nastier, and one of the [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters biggest]] and [[GambitPileup most complicated]] plotlines in literature begins, set against a backdrop of VictorianLondon (and the [[UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain surrounding countryside]]), the river Thames in particular.
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A body is found floating on the Thames, identified as John Harmon, the heir to a great fortune, and -- well -- things go from nasty to nastier, and one of the [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters biggest]] biggest and [[GambitPileup most complicated]] plotlines in literature begins, set against a backdrop of VictorianLondon (and the [[UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain surrounding countryside]]), the river Thames in particular.
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* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Dickens always has one of these... and there are [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters a lot of characters to cover]], so be prepared for an AuthorFilibuster.
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* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Dickens always has one of these... and there are [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters a lot of characters to cover]], cover, so be prepared for an AuthorFilibuster.
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* WackyParentSeriousChild: Jenny Wren's father is an advanced state of alcoholism, always either drunk or planning to get drunk and in either state barely capable of stringing a sentence together, leaving Jenny to be the responsible person and provider of the household. She treats him as if she were the parent and he the child, even calling him "my naughty child" and scolding him when he gets drunk again. This is played both for laughs and for drama.
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* HappilyMarried: Mr and Mrs Boffin.
* IHaveNoSon:
** Old Mr Harmon disowned his daughter and then his son for standing up to his tyranny. He never softened toward his daughter before her death, but after his own death his will was found to leave most of his property to his son, albeit with a condition apparently calculated to make his life difficult.
** When Bella Wilfer marries, without her mother's knowledge and to a man her mother disapproves of, Mrs Wilfer declares that she no longer has a daughter named Bella. It doesn't last long, though, and they've reconciled by the time Bella's first child is born.
** Old Mr Harmon disowned his daughter and then his son for standing up to his tyranny. He never softened toward his daughter before her death, but after his own death his will was found to leave most of his property to his son, albeit with a condition apparently calculated to make his life difficult.
** When Bella Wilfer marries, without her mother's knowledge and to a man her mother disapproves of, Mrs Wilfer declares that she no longer has a daughter named Bella. It doesn't last long, though, and they've reconciled by the time Bella's first child is born.
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* MrExposition: Mortimer Lightwood.Lightwood, the Harmon family lawyer, explains the premise of the plot to the other characters at the Veneerings' dinner party and thereby also to the audience.
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname:
** Jenny Wren, the dolls' dressmaker. "Jenny Wren" is a nickname she bestowed on herself; her real name is mentioned once by the narrator when she's first introduced and then never mentioned again.
** Jenny's father is never referred to by his real name, even by the narrator. At first the narrator just refers to him as Jenny's father. Then Eugene, knowing that he's not "Mr Wren" but not sure what else to call him, gives him the nickname "Mr Dolls", which the narrator uses for the rest of the novel.
** Jenny Wren, the dolls' dressmaker. "Jenny Wren" is a nickname she bestowed on herself; her real name is mentioned once by the narrator when she's first introduced and then never mentioned again.
** Jenny's father is never referred to by his real name, even by the narrator. At first the narrator just refers to him as Jenny's father. Then Eugene, knowing that he's not "Mr Wren" but not sure what else to call him, gives him the nickname "Mr Dolls", which the narrator uses for the rest of the novel.
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* ParentsAsPeople: Bella Wilfer's parents.
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** Rogue Riderhood.Riderhood dispenses his version of parental duty in the form of a boot tossed at his daughter's head.
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* DomesticAbuse: Rogue Riderhood dispenses his version of parental duty in the form of a boot tossed at his daughter's head.
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* AltarTheSpeed: The somber and rushed marriage of [[spoiler:Eugene and Lizzie]]. The ceremony takes place sooner rather than later because [[spoiler:the groom is believed to be dying from injuries inflicted by the bride's StalkerWithACrush]].
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* CockFight: The rivalry between upper-class lawyer Eugene Wrayburn and schoolteacher Bradley Headstone, over Lizzie Hexam. Particularly in Headstone's case, it's debatable whether love for Lizzie or hatred for the other man is stronger.
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* {{Elopement}}: Played with in the case of Bella and John's wedding. They sneak away and get married in secret, in a ceremony with only two witnesses, one of whom is an old man who wandered in off the street to see what was happening, and then send a letter to Bella's parents announcing the fait accompli. But the other witness is Bella's father, who's known and approved of the relationship all along; it's only Bella's mother whose disapproval they're trying to avoid.
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* WaifProphet: Jenny Wren, a tiny, crippled teenager, who has otherworldly visions, and is also an unusually perceptive and insightful observer of the characters around her. These two abilities are interconnected, and both suggested to be either a compensation for or result of her disability. Her insights and her visions help resolve one of the novel's main plots. However, it should be also pointed out that although her abilities and plot function fit the trope perfectly, Jenny's personality is much closer to the DeadpanSnarker.
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* LoveTriangle:
** Eugene Wrayburn and Bradley Headstone both love Lizzie Hexam. It's clear who she prefers, but Bradley can't take no for an answer.
** Miss Peecher loves Bradley Headstone, who only has eyes for Lizzie Hexam.
** Eugene Wrayburn and Bradley Headstone both love Lizzie Hexam. It's clear who she prefers, but Bradley can't take no for an answer.
** Miss Peecher loves Bradley Headstone, who only has eyes for Lizzie Hexam.
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* MurderTheHypotenuse: Bradley Headstone attempts to murder Eugene Wrayburn, and nearly succeeds. The narrator notes that on some level Bradley is probably aware that murdering Eugene probably won't actually help his case with Lizzie, even if she never finds out it was him that did it, but by this point his obsessive hatred of Eugene has outgrown the obsessive attraction to Lizzie that spawned it.
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* AlliterativeName: Multiple (not unusual for Dickens): Rogue Riderhood, "Fascination" Fledgeby...
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Bradley Headstone's disastrous proposal to Lizzie Hexam, in which he states that she is the ruin of him, and he regrets ever meeting her. [[spoiler: When rejected, he threatens to kill Eugene, and nearly attacks her.]]
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Bradley Headstone's disastrous proposal to Lizzie Hexam, in which he states that she is the ruin of him, and he regrets ever meeting her. [[spoiler: When rejected, he threatens to kill Eugene, and nearly attacks her.]]
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* AlliterativeName: Multiple (not unusual for Dickens): Rogue Riderhood, AlliterativeName:
** Roger "Rogue" Riderhood.
** "Fascination"Fledgeby...
Fledgeby.
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Bradley Headstone's disastrous proposal to Lizzie Hexam, in which he states that she is the ruin of him, and he regrets ever meeting her.[[spoiler: When [[spoiler:When rejected, he threatens to kill Eugene, and nearly attacks her.]]
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* ArrangedMarriage: John Harmon was set to inherit his fortune only if he agreed to marry Bella Wilfer, a young woman he had never met. Now that John Harmon is drowned, all that has changed... [[spoiler: until they get married anyway, without Bella knowing it.]]
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* ArrangedMarriage: John Harmon was set to inherit his fortune only if he agreed to marry Bella Wilfer, a young woman he had never met. Now that John Harmon is drowned, all that has changed... [[spoiler: until [[spoiler:until they get married anyway, without Bella knowing it.]]
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* BerserkButton: [[spoiler: Bradley [[spoiler:Bradley has a number of them.]]
* BigFancyHouse: TheBower.house that the Boffins move into after deciding that the Bower isn't grand enough to befit their new station.
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** Silas Wegg attempts to blackmail Mr. Boffin with a new will he's found, leaving all the property to the crown. [[spoiler: It turns out there's a THIRD will, leaving everything once again to Mr. Boffin.]]
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** Silas Wegg attempts to blackmail Mr. Boffin with a new will he's found, leaving all the property to the crown. [[spoiler: It [[spoiler:It turns out there's a THIRD will, leaving everything once again to Mr. Boffin.]]
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* ChekhovsGunman: Pretty much everyone at the Veneerings' dinner parties.
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* CharacterTics: Young Fledgeby's habit of rubbing his face as if to see if his beard has finally started growing.
* ChekhovsGunman: Pretty mucheveryone every named character at the Veneerings' dinner parties.parties becomes important to the plot at some point.
* ChekhovsGunman: Pretty much
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** John Rokesmith is accused of the murder of John Harmon. [[spoiler: He doesn't have a terribly hard time clearing himself of those charges.]]
** All of Pubsey & Co's clientele think Mr. Riah is a GreedyJew, little guessing that it's really Fledgeby in control of the operation... eventually Mr. Riah leaves in disgust, and [[spoiler: winds up becoming the most genial and generous creditor around]].
** All of Pubsey & Co's clientele think Mr. Riah is a GreedyJew, little guessing that it's really Fledgeby in control of the operation... eventually Mr. Riah leaves in disgust, and [[spoiler: winds up becoming the most genial and generous creditor around]].
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** John Rokesmith is accused of the murder of John Harmon. [[spoiler: He [[spoiler:He doesn't have a terribly hard time clearing himself of those charges.]]
** All of Pubsey & Co's clientele think Mr. Riah is a GreedyJew, little guessing that it's really Fledgeby in control of the operation... eventually Mr. Riah leaves in disgust, and[[spoiler: winds [[spoiler:winds up becoming the most genial and generous creditor around]].
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** Betty Higden just happens to stumble across Lizzie Hexam [[spoiler: in the last few moments of her life]].
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Bradley Headstone [[spoiler:tries to frame Rogue Riderhood for the attack on Eugene Wrayburn... but not only does it fail, it doesn't even get off the ground; nobody even suspects Riderhood or believes for a moment that anyone besides Bradley is guilty.]]
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Bradley Headstone [[spoiler:tries to frame Rogue Riderhood for the attack on Eugene Wrayburn... but not only does it fail, it doesn't even get off the ground; nobody even suspects Riderhood or believes for a moment that anyone besides Bradley is guilty. The only thing he achieves is to make his situation even more desperate by making Riderhood his enemy.]]
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** Charley Hexam learns that [[spoiler:Bradley Headstone has nearly beaten Eugene Wrayburn to death]], and rejects him. (though there are some indications that this is partly down to his rejecting of anything that might cast himself in a bad light.)
* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:The Harmon Murder is one of the driving forces of the book...]]
* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:The Harmon Murder is one of the driving forces of the book...]]
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** Charley Hexam learns that [[spoiler:Bradley Headstone has nearly beaten Eugene Wrayburn to death]], and rejects him. (though (Though there are some indications that this is partly down to his rejecting of anything that might cast himself in a bad light.)
* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:The Harmon Murder is one of the driving forces of thebook...book -- and an inadvertant example of this trope. The body found in the river wearing John Harmon's clothes and carrying John Harmon's papers in his pockets is actually another man who drugged the real John Harmon and stole them. By the time the real John Harmon recovers, he's already been declared dead, and he decides to stay dead for a while so he can get to know Bella and the Boffins incognito.]]
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* GreedyJew: Subverted and fake-Invoked in a big way. Everyone in the plot thinks Mr. Riah is this, but he is secretly under the control of Fledgeby, who uses this public perception of Jews in order to camouflage his own operation. [[spoiler: Riah eventually gets away from Fledgeby and inverts the trope fully, [[ClearMyName Clearing His Name]] in the process.]]
* GreenEyedMonster: Bradley Headstone's violent [[spoiler: (literally)]] hatred for Eugene Wrayburn, over Lizzie Hexam.
* GreenEyedMonster: Bradley Headstone's violent [[spoiler: (literally)]] hatred for Eugene Wrayburn, over Lizzie Hexam.
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* GreedyJew: Subverted and fake-Invoked in a big way. Everyone in the plot thinks Mr. Riah is this, but he is secretly under the control of Fledgeby, who uses this public perception of Jews in order to camouflage his own operation. [[spoiler: Riah [[spoiler:Riah eventually gets away from Fledgeby and inverts the trope fully, [[ClearMyName Clearing His Name]] in the process.]]
* GreenEyedMonster: Bradley Headstone's violent[[spoiler: (literally)]] [[spoiler:(literally)]] hatred for Eugene Wrayburn, over Lizzie Hexam.
* GreenEyedMonster: Bradley Headstone's violent
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In the end, it's Bradley Headstone's attempt to put Eugene Wrayburn out of the running that brings Eugene and Lizzie together; if he'd left Eugene alone, Eugene and Lizzie would most likely have continued to feel that the class barrier dividing them was insurmountable. When Bradley realises this, he has a VillainousBreakdown.
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* KarmaHoudini: The last we see of the Lammles in the 1998 series is them becoming the "friends" of a rich young couple, with the obvious intention to take their money.
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** The actual culprits of the Harmon Murder are never identified or brought to justice.
** The last we see of the Lammles in the 1998 series is them becoming the "friends" of a rich young couple, with the obvious intention to take their money.
** The actual culprits of the Harmon Murder are never identified or brought to justice.
** The last we see of the Lammles in the 1998 series is them becoming the "friends" of a rich young couple, with the obvious intention to take their money.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Rogue Riderhood says that once a man has been almost drowned, he can't ever be drowned again. [[spoiler: He is mistaken.]]
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* LostWillAndTestament: John Harmon Sr. made several wills. Wegg finds a later one than the generally-accepted one, and blackmails Mr. Boffin with the knowledge he has no right to his fortune. [[spoiler: There's another will even later than the one Wegg found.]]
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Hoo, boy. [[spoiler: Bradley Headstone, who becomes increasingly obsessed with Lizzie Hexam, culminating in an attempt to MurderTheHypotenuse]]. 'Nuff said.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Hoo, boy. [[spoiler: Bradley Headstone, who becomes increasingly obsessed with Lizzie Hexam, culminating in an attempt to MurderTheHypotenuse]]. 'Nuff said.
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* LostWillAndTestament: John Harmon Sr. made several wills. Wegg finds a later one than the generally-accepted one, and blackmails Mr. Boffin with the knowledge he has no right to his fortune. [[spoiler: There's [[spoiler:There's another will even later than the one Wegg found.]]
* LoveMakesYouEvil:Hoo, boy. [[spoiler: Bradley [[spoiler:Bradley Headstone, who becomes increasingly obsessed with Lizzie Hexam, culminating in an attempt to MurderTheHypotenuse]]. 'Nuff said.MurderTheHypotenuse]].
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** [[spoiler: John Harmon is almost murdered for his fortune, which doesn't do much for his worldview.]]
** Rogue Riderhood nearly drowns in the river, but is saved. He assumes, due to superstition, that this makes him immune from drowning in the future. [[spoiler: He is mistaken.]]
** Eugene Wrayburn gets beaten nearly to death by [[spoiler: Bradley Headstone]], which causes him to re-think his life, and he [[spoiler: finally marries Lizzie, to save her reputation. He thinks he's going to die. He survives.]]
* NeverLearnedToRead: Boffin hires Silas Wegg to read him 'The Decline and Fall of the Rooshan Empire'.
** Rogue Riderhood nearly drowns in the river, but is saved. He assumes, due to superstition, that this makes him immune from drowning in the future. [[spoiler: He is mistaken.]]
** Eugene Wrayburn gets beaten nearly to death by [[spoiler: Bradley Headstone]], which causes him to re-think his life, and he [[spoiler: finally marries Lizzie, to save her reputation. He thinks he's going to die. He survives.]]
* NeverLearnedToRead: Boffin hires Silas Wegg to read him 'The Decline and Fall of the Rooshan Empire'.
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** [[spoiler: John [[spoiler:John Harmon is almost murdered for his fortune, which doesn't do much for his worldview.]]
** Rogue Riderhood nearly drowns in the river, but is saved. He assumes, due to superstition, that this makes him immune from drowning in the future.[[spoiler: He [[spoiler:He is mistaken.]]
** Eugene Wrayburn gets beaten nearly to death by[[spoiler: Bradley [[spoiler:Bradley Headstone]], which causes him to re-think his life, and he [[spoiler: finally [[spoiler:finally marries Lizzie, to save her reputation. He thinks he's going to die. He survives.]]
*NeverLearnedToRead: Boffin NeverLearnedToRead:
** Mr Boffin, who hires Silas Wegg to read him 'The Decline and Fall of the RooshanEmpire'.Empire'.
** Lizzie has reached adulthood without much book-learning, due to her father's poverty and suspicion of education. One of the turning points in her relationship with Eugene is when she accepts his offer to arrange reading lessons for her.
** Rogue Riderhood nearly drowns in the river, but is saved. He assumes, due to superstition, that this makes him immune from drowning in the future.
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* ParentalSubstitute: The Boffins practically raised John Harmon, and [[spoiler: he returns the favor]].
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** The Boffins practically raised John Harmon, and[[spoiler: he [[spoiler:he returns the favor]].
** At the end, Mr. Riah becomes a second father to Jenny -- or, as she says, possibly a first father, considering how useless her real father was.
*PoliceAreUselessPoliceAreUseless: Despite some intensive investigating, the police never find out anything useful about the Harmon Murder by themselves.
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** [[spoiler: John Harmon isn't dead. He's John Rokesmith.]]
** [[spoiler: Mr. Boffin isn't corrupt.]]
* RewatchBonus: In the 1998 miniseries Mrs. Boffin smiles at her husband right after he very rudely dismissed John Rokesmith. Rewatching the series with the knowledge [[spoiler: Mr. Boffin is only pretending to be a miser and both Mrs. Boffin and Rokesmith are in on the act]] casts lights on her reactions.
** [[spoiler: Mr. Boffin isn't corrupt.]]
* RewatchBonus: In the 1998 miniseries Mrs. Boffin smiles at her husband right after he very rudely dismissed John Rokesmith. Rewatching the series with the knowledge [[spoiler: Mr. Boffin is only pretending to be a miser and both Mrs. Boffin and Rokesmith are in on the act]] casts lights on her reactions.
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**[[spoiler: Mr.[[spoiler:Mr. Boffin isn't corrupt. It's an act to test Bella's integrity.]]
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Alfred Lammle, after learning that it's really Fledgeby who has been screwing him over (and pretty much everyone else in the book as well) the whole time, [[spoiler: crams a mixture of salt and tobacco into Fledgeby's nose and mouth to prevent him crying for help, and then thrashes him with his cane so hard that the cane breaks... ''twice''.]]
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Alfred Lammle, after learning that it's really Fledgeby who has been screwing him over (and pretty much everyone else in the book as well) the whole time, [[spoiler: crams [[spoiler:crams a mixture of salt and tobacco into Fledgeby's nose and mouth to prevent him crying for help, and then thrashes him with his cane so hard that the cane breaks... ''twice''.]]
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* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:Bradley Headstone's murder-suicide on Rogue Riderhood.]]
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* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:Bradley Headstone's murder-suicide on Rogue Riderhood. Riderhood attempts to blackmail him, saying that until he's paid, "Wherever you go, I will go." And so he does.]]
* UngratefulBastard: Silas Wegg, who is given a place to live and a comfortable indoor job by Mr Boffin, along with other perks, resents him more after every kindness and ends up trying to destroy him for a litany of imagined slights (many of them referring to things that he voluntarily accepted at the time or even that he suggested in the first place).
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* UptownGirl: The gender-swapped version, as Eugene loves Lizzie, but feels he can't marry her because he comes from an old-money family and she's the daughter of a waterside "character," and what would society say? He eventually sees the light after [[spoiler: a NearDeathExperience, and he marries her to save her reputation]].
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: Bradley Headstone]]. Frequently, but especially after nearly killing Eugene.
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* UptownGirl: The gender-swapped version, as Eugene loves Lizzie, but feels he can't marry her because he comes from an old-money family and she's the daughter of a waterside "character," and what would society say? He eventually sees the light after [[spoiler: a [[spoiler:a NearDeathExperience, and he marries her to save her reputation]].
* VillainousBreakdown:[[spoiler: Bradley [[spoiler:Bradley Headstone]]. Frequently, but especially after nearly killing Eugene.Eugene and then discovering that he's only helped along what he was trying to prevent.
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* YouALLShareMyStory: [[spoiler: John Harmon]]'s story intersects with pretty much every character's arc at some point, however indirectly... and so does Lizzie Hexam's.
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* YouALLShareMyStory: [[spoiler: John [[spoiler:John Harmon]]'s story intersects with pretty much every character's arc at some point, however indirectly... and so does Lizzie Hexam's.
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* {{Catchphrase}}: Boffin's "Mornin', mornin', mornin'!"
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* {{Catchphrase}}: BookEnds: The novel's second scene is set at one of the Veneerings' dinner parties, where Lightwood is prevailed upon to tell what he knows about the events setting up the plot. The final scene sees Lightwood back at another of the Veneering's dinner parties, refusing to be drawn on the events of the plot's conclusion.
* {{Catchphrase}}:
** Boffin's "Mornin', mornin',mornin'!"mornin'!"
** Jenny Wren knows ''your'' tricks and your manners.
** Riderhood is an honest man as lives by the sweat of his brow.
* {{Catchphrase}}:
** Boffin's "Mornin', mornin',
** Jenny Wren knows ''your'' tricks and your manners.
** Riderhood is an honest man as lives by the sweat of his brow.
* ChekhovsHobby: When Mrs Higden introduces Sloppy, she mentions that one of the ways he helps around the house is reading the newspaper and remarks admiringly that he does different voices when he reads out the court transcripts. His skill at different voices comes into play again near the end of the story.
* ChekhovsSkill: The skills that Lizzie acquires helping her father fish dead bodies out of the Thames come in handy to rescue a still-living body out of the river at the climax.
* ChekhovsSkill: The skills that Lizzie acquires helping her father fish dead bodies out of the Thames come in handy to rescue a still-living body out of the river at the climax.
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* MeaningfulName: Bradley Headstone, Mr. Veneering, and a few others.
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* MeaningfulName: MeaningfulName:
** BradleyHeadstone, Headstone
** Mr. Veneering,and a few others.who is concerned only with superficial appearances.
** Bradley
** Mr. Veneering,
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* TitleDrop: Boffin refers to Rokesmith as "Our mutual friend."
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* TitleDrop: Mr Boffin refers to Mr Rokesmith as "Our mutual friend."friend" when speaking to Mr Wilfer, after learning that they both (apparently by coincidence) count him as an acquaintance. It's true in a wider sense, as the thing that ultimately connects all the novel's many characters is that they have some direct or indirect connection to Mr Rokesmith, [[spoiler:or, to give him his proper name, John Harmon]], although most of them don't know it and many of them never find out.
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* IRejectYourReality: Mr Podsnap makes an artform of this, habitually dismissing and sweeping away (with a flourish of his arm) any notion that conflicts with his own deeply self-satisfied worldview.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: As the novel progresses, Charlie Hexam grows steadily more selfish and obsessed with his own respectability, coldly abandoning anyone he thinks might reflect badly on him.
