ENGLISH 318 Lecture 8: 3:17
30 Mar 2016
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Dahl: protagonists tend to be solitary child igures, he has child haing igures as well, children and censorship. Grotesque language and imagery, exaggerated language: pleasures of the text. Children are described as gaining power through their community against their oppressors empowering: narraion, heroism, trickster becomes child savior, books and reading, consuming food and other edibles, adult antagonists: father, the trunchbull, size maters. Tiny people are associated with being good and large people are not. Mailda and miss honey are depicted as being iny. On the large chair: the narraive patern (trickster vs, child has capacity to render judgment on adult world, represening authoriies in a child"s life in a negaive light, pages and quotes. The children sat there hypnoized : natural aggression. From poisonous children to poisonous adults: scenes of graphic violence. Spectacle of the abuse of children (150-151: pleasures of revenge. 131, etc: text represents pleasures of reading. With her father, 38-39: pleasures of magic/ trickery.
