Willy Wonka’s Personality in the novel

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CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS

This chapter discusses the questions that appear in the problem formulation in three parts. First part discusses Willy Wonka ’s personality which is described in the novel. This discussion answers the first problem formulation. The second part discusses h ow Wonka’s traumatic experience happens. The third part discusses the influence of traumatic experience on Wonka’s personality.

A. Willy Wonka’s Personality in the novel

This part discusses Willy Wonka characteristics as seen by other characters and descriptions by the author in Roald Dahl’s novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The discussion is based on the comments of other characters’ point of view and other characters’ conversation about him in accordance to Murphy’s theory of characterization.

a. Intelligent

Willy Wonka has a lot of great innovation in sweets and chocolate industry. His greatness in making chocolate and sweets is described by the author in the novel. It is proven in the page 6 of the novel where the author said “Mr. Willy Wonka, the greatest inventor and maker of chocolates that there has ever been.” It means that he is the only one who has the skills to make great innovations. Wonka’s greatness also can be seen from other people who talks about him. People’s arguments in this novel also give information about his power in chocolate industry. Like one of the characters in novel, called Grandpa Joe, in the novel said ”Mr. Willy Wonka is the most amazing, the most fantastic, and the most extraordinary chocolate maker the world has ever seen I thought everybody knew that” Dahl, 1964:7. Other chocolate makers grow jealous toward him. Yes. All the other chocolate makers, you see, had begun to grow jealous of the wonderful sweets that Mr. Wonka was making, and they started sending in spies to steal his secret recipes. The spies took jobs in the Wonka factory, pretending that they were ordinary workers, and while they were there, each one of them found out exactly how a certain special thing was made Dahl, 1964:14. Other makers even try to steal his secret recipes; it means he has something that other people do not have. He can make other makers feel jealous because of him. People around him start to grow envy because of his intelligent and his creativity. In order to make people jealous on others; it needs something special that he or ordinary people has. Willy Wonka has his intellectual which people do not have, so based on that, he is an intelligent person.

b. Creative

Willy Wonka can make everything made of chocolate. His creativity in chocolate inventions is showed on Grandpa Joe description how great Willy Wonka is: My dear boy, said Grandpa Joe, raising himself up a little higher on his pillow, Mr Willy Wonka is the most amazing, the most fantastic, the most extraordinary chocolate maker the world has ever seen I thought everybody knew that Dahl, 1964:7 . Grandpa Joe gives a lot of comments about Willy Wonka characteristics. The reason is Grandpa Joe is a worker in Wonka’s factory. Other proof that shows Mr. Wonka is an extraordinary chocolate maker: And, by a most secret method, he can make lovely blue birds eggs with black spots on them, and when you put one of these in your mouth, it gradually gets smaller and smaller until suddenly there is nothing left except a tiny little pink sugary baby bird sitting on the tip of your tongue. Dahl, 1964:9 This statement comes from Grandpa Joe, he shows that Mr. Wonka has creativity beyond ordinary people. He can make ice cream that supposes to melt when it is lying in the sun keeps in shape and chocolate egg that can turn into baby bird and gradually get smaller the longer you eat it. All of his inventions look irrational for some people to be fulfilled, with his imagination he can make something impossible into possible. He can make his inventions because of his creativity and skills. The last proof is when he gets letter from Prince Pondicherry to build him a colossal palace made of chocolate. The bricks were chocolate, and the cement holding them together was chocolate, and the windows were chocolate, and all the walls and ceilings were made of chocolate, so were the carpets and the pictures and the furniture and the beds; and when you turned on the taps in the bathroom, hot chocolate came pouring out Dahl, 1964:11. He can make a palace full of chocolate. All the furniture and even the water that flow inside the palace are made of chocolate. His creativity has been shown in the novel by showing all these comments. The data above shows that the capability of Willy Wonka in inventing enormous sweets. Based on the proof provided, the researcher concludes that Willy Wonka is creative.

c. Reliable

Reliable means that he wants to help and take care of other people by fulfilling people request. He accepts a request from Prince of India, Prince Pondicherry. ‘Prince Pondicherry wrote a letter to Mr. Willy Wonka,’ said Granpa Joe,’ and asked him to come all the way out to India and build him a colossal palace entirely out of chocolate.’ ‘Did Mr. Wonka do it, Granpa?’ ‘He did, indeed. And what a palace it was’… Dahl, 1964:11 He comes far from his factory to India just to fulfill Prince’s letter. Besides he wants to accept Prince Pondicherry insane request, Mr. Wonka is reliable because he has a thousand workers in his factory. Mr. Wonka has a thousand workers in his factory. They works in Wonka’s factory to help him built his sweets industry. “You see, Charlie,’ he said. ‘not so very long ago there used to be thousands of people working in W illy Wonka’s Factory…” Dahl, 1964:14. Mr. Wonka trusts people to work in his factory. He even has thousands of people working for him and helping them to have a work. Based on those proofs, Willy Wonka is reliable before he experienced his traumatic event.

d. Affable

He isaffable in the perspective of people in general like what the elder of Bucket family said “Poor Mr. Wonka. He was so nice. And he made such marvelous things. But he’s finished now. It’s all over” Dahl, 1964:15. The statement that comes from the elder of Bucket Family means a lot, because they know Mr. Wonka for a long time. They know how Mr. Wonka before. They know him when he trusts people and wants to open himself to stranger. Another proof besides the elder’s comment, Mr. Wonka is affable because he cares about other people. When he received a letter from Prince Pondicherry to build a colossal palace made of chocolate, he builds the palace. He knows that something wrong happens to the palace. Prince Pondicherry does not hear Mr.Wonka’s words. Mr. Wonka warns “I warn you though, it won’t last very long, so you better start eating it right away ” Dahl, 1864:11. Mr. Wonka knew that the weather was not suitable for his chocolate to stay in shape. Prince Pondicherry lives in India and the weather in India is hot enough to make chocolate melt. He gives the prince advice about his palace even though the prince does not hear his advice because he cares about the prince ’s safety. Willy Wonka is intelligent, creative, reliable, and af fable. Willy Wonka’s intelligence is showed by his creativity in chocolate industry. He can make thousands of enormous chocolate inventions. Willy Wonka is a reliable person because he likes to help other people. Willy Wonka gives jobs to thousands people to work in his factory. He helps them to have a constant income by having a job. The last characteristic of his personality is affable. Willy Wonka is an affable person, because he wants to fulfill someone dreams. He fulfills Prince Pondicherry ’s insane request by building him a palace made of chocolate. Willy Wonka accepts requests from others and tries to make them happened. Based on the characteristics; Willy Wonka is categorized as a sociable person.

B. The Cause of Willy Wonka’s Traumatic Experience