reserved, bookish people whose quiet confidence and steady strength win out in the end". Lindsay Lowe, writing for The Atlantic, described Dahl's Matilda and its 1996 film adaption as "an ode to introversion. 'I was a dorky, smart, misfit'īut I'm far from the only one who has been touched by Matilda. Matilda gave me the courage to think that, perhaps, even though I was a girl, even though I was shy, even though I was just a child, my dreams were valid and I could one day make my voice count. You will learn that when you get a bit older, my girl.") (Here, perhaps, is a good place to include a comical piece of advice from Matilda's mother: "I'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are. My school and home lives were infinitely happier than Matilda's, but nothing changes the fact that as children most of us feel virtually powerless.īut Matilda, despite being taught that little girls should be seen and not heard, found ways to assert her power - and, as I've grown into a young woman, I've recognised society is still implicitly teaching women, 28 years later, that our voices aren't important. Matilda taps into the fantasy of children being able to fight back against injustice.
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