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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Resistance and Complicity in Matilda
While Roald Dahl's Matilda offers a critique of oppressive, colonizing adult practices, it also makes clear the difficulty posed by the tyranny of gendered social scripts. Focusing both on historical and fictional parallels suggested by the text, this paper outlines the limited choices Matilda...
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| description | While Roald Dahl's Matilda offers a critique of oppressive, colonizing adult practices, it also
makes clear the difficulty posed by the tyranny of gendered social scripts. Focusing both on
historical and fictional parallels suggested by the text, this paper outlines the limited choices
Matilda is offered as role models, highlighting in particular the way she is positioned as a double
for Miss Trunchbull. |
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