ENGB35H3 Lecture Notes - Draco Malfoy, Utopia, Anticulture Records
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Dahl: her reading habits are what enable her to transcend her middleclass philistinic upbringing. Makes you a better person: miss trunchbull s face neither a thing of beauty nor a joy forever . John keats, an address to an adult, first line of his poem. An adult s supposed to feel terribly superior. But we don t al recognize it when we see it: out of all the books that matilda reads the ones she likes the best aren t the stereotypical women s books. But the adventure plots, traveling all over the world. The boys stories particularly catch her eye. It mentally larges her horizons: his use of the grotesque to vilify miss trunchbull and mrs. wormwood: Grotesque women who don t conform to ideals of femininity. Clearly matilda suffers at the hands at her father because she is a girl.