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Mulders, Marike Frederike (2016)

The Presentation of Female Gender in Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Witches and Matilda

Master thesis | Literary Studies (MA)

In the following chapters, I shall compose a theoretical framework of both children’s literature and female gender studies and use this for an analysis of the presentation of female gender in Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (chapter 2), The Witches (chapter 3) and Matilda (chapter 4). Following Culley’s analysis, Dahl’s at times grotesque and even sadistic narratives appear to uncover ideological hypocrisies like sexism or stereotyped gender roles, hereby drawing attention towards gender issues. However, the satirical presentation of these ideological stereotypes may present Dahl’s work as mainly humorous or entertaining, in this way overshadowing the actuality of repressing gender stereotyping as projected in the text.

Matilda

Dahl

children's

Gender

Female

Stereotyping

Author

Mulders, Marike Frederike

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

MA Literary Studies English Literature

Supervisors

Newton, Michael

ECTS Credits

20

Language

en