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3.1.3 Mrs. Wormwood
Mrs Wormwood is a mother has bad habit. She does not care about Matilda than Matilda’s brother. Mrs Wormwood abusive parent and also became boorish parent. Mrs
Wormwood too busy with her life like plays binggo not far away from their house.
3.2 Theme
Matilda is not only genius but also brilliant with lots of extraordinary ideas and actions to fight against fragility of abusive parents and teacher. In some occasions, she
made a revenge by putting superglue in his father’s hat, and creating invisible voice by a parrot she hided though in the chimney. All those actions worked naturally. Besides, she
also has a supernatural power called telekinesis that she used to face her vicious headmaster.
In regarding to explanation above, the researcher thinks that some of Matilda’s actions may lead to positive way but some other not. For instance, first and second
paragraphs above are Matilda’s action against her family and last paragraph is her action against her abusive headmaster. I tries to look at motives of these actions. I could make a
justification on what Matilda has done that as the character she has roles to make changes and overcome of injustices. However, some ways she used to cope with her problems are
unworthy such as what does toward her father. Putting superglue in his head and other things, making a fool her whole family by making invisible voice tricks, are actually
impolite and improper actions to be imitated by children.
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21 The last paragraph tells us about Matilda’s effort against her Headmaster, Miss
Trunchbull. There are again no lesson – learnt that could be drawn by readers, in which a headmaster ought to be a good paragon for teachers and students to behave. But here,
Miss Trunchbull is a cruel and vicious character. The readers will not be able to find the educative values it is expected from a teacher.
This novel is originally fantasy and full of imagination. I thinks that values of Matilda’s character are more appropriately to be adopted by children if they are serving
naturally than using magical power. Moreover, the children in the real life are used to solve their own problems naturally. Apparently, this story is presented more than the
imagination of the author.
3.3 Plot
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