One response is to consider such material unsuitable for children another is to see it as a means of expressing (and thus defusing) the anxieties resulting from ‘the unequal power relationships between children and adults’.ĭahl’s stories have a forerunner in the similarly vicious ends provided for the enemies of the protagonists in traditional fairy tales (which are rarely about actual fairies, and generally about some unnatural or supernatural happening).

Whether it be the aunts’ flattened beneath a massive peach or the various fates of children at the chocolate factory, there is no lack of physical retribution. This is usually directed at parent or guardian figures who are cruel to the children in their care and come to unpleasant ends as a result, and sometimes at equally disagreeable children. Throughout Dahl’s career as a writer there have been dissenting voices on his work, often focussing around the violence many of his stories contain. But it is as a well-loved writer of children’s books that he is mostly remembered almost every child seem to have encountered (and loved) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory or Matilda in some form, whether book, film or musical theatre. Roald Dahl would have been 101 years old on 13th September 2017 he lived through much of the 20th century in his varied roles as a ‘spy, an ace fighter pilot, a chocolate historian and a medical inventor’.

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