5/10/2023 0 Comments Charlie and the glass elevator![]() ![]() However, his loosely-limned character allows him to be a proxy for the reader, for Charlie's experiences can become their experiences. He is not a bad child, and those moments of courage are important in the text as lessons for young readers. He has no unique characteristics, is not fleshed out, and demonstrates only slightly varying degrees of nervousness, excitement, and courage. Charlie Bucket is not particularly interesting. ![]() Is Charlie a strong protagonist? Why or why not? It is impossible to ever know more about this, as Dahl didn't elucidate them much further, but much is disturbing about their robotic execution of Wonka's will. The Oompa-Loompas carry out Wonka's will but seem to delight in doing so, conspiratorially winking, "breaking into convulsive laughter over the eccentricities of the visitors," or gleefully chanting their warnings and messages. They, unable to ever leave the factory, are like Dante's gargoyle demons in a busy, but in their case childlike, underworld" (in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Dahl had written that the creatures stayed there because of their craving for cacao beans). He is dependent on their mass and energy for the execution of his will. ![]() What is the nature of the relationship between Wonka and the Oompa-Loompas?Īs critic Hamida Bosmajian writes frankly, "The master-slave relation between Wonka and his workers is sweer. ![]()
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