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361:. She reveals that she had tricked Bruno Jenkins into eating a chocolate bar laced with the formula the day before, and had set the "alarm" to go off during the meeting. The potion takes effect, transforming Bruno into a mouse before the assembled witches. Shortly after, the witches detect the narrator's presence and corner him. The Grand High Witch then pours an entire bottle of Formula 86 down his throat, and the overdose instantly turns him into a mouse. However, the transformed child retains his mentality, personality and even his voice - refusing to be lured into a mouse-trap. After tracking down Bruno, the transformed boy returns to his grandmother's hotel room and tells her what he has learned. He suggests turning the tables on the witches by slipping the potion into their evening meal. With some difficulty, he manages to get his hands on a bottle of the potion from the Grand High Witch's room. 415:
examples; however, Dahl’s determination to expose to his young readers the truth can be controversial. Despite society occasionally making progress in its treatment of children, Curtis argues that different aspects of child-hate displayed in Dahl’s work are based on real world examples. As the boy’s grandmother informs him, the witches usually strike children when they are alone; Curtis uses this information from the novel to connect to the historical problem of child abandonment. As children have been maimed or killed due to abandonment, children are harmed by witches in the novel when they have been left alone. 
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machine and information on witches in various countries, they will try to eradicate them everywhere. The grandmother reveals that, as a mouse, the boy will probably only live for about another nine years, but the boy does not mind, as he does not want to outlive his grandmother (she reveals that she is also likely to live for only nine more years), as he would hate to have anyone else look after him.
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way back from the kitchen, a cook spots the narrator and chops off part of his tail with a carving knife, before he manages to escape back to his grandmother. The witches all turn into mice within a few minutes, having had massive overdoses just like the narrator. The hotel staff and the guests all panic and unknowingly end up killing the Grand High Witch and all of England's witches.
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A young woman goes on stage and removes her entire face, which is a mask. The boy realises that she is none other than the Grand High Witch herself. She expresses her displeasure at the English witches' failure to eliminate enough children. The Grand High Witch unveils her master plan: all of England's witches are to purchase
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to play with his pet mice. After seeing ladies entering the ballroom, he hides behind a screen. When they reach underneath their hair to scratch at their scalp with a gloved hand, the boy realises that this is the yearly gathering of the English witches, and that he is trapped in the now-closed room.
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wrote in her 1983 review that she would suggest not gifting the book to a child who is more emotional to particularly frightening scenarios. Other mixed receptions were the results of Dahl’s depiction of the witches being monstrous in characterisation. Soon after its publication, the novel received
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After an attempt to return Bruno to his parents fails spectacularly (mainly due to his mother's fear of mice), the grandmother takes Bruno and the narrator to the dining hall. The narrator enters the kitchen, where he pours the potion into the green pea soup intended for the witches' dinner. On the
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list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990 to 1999, at number 22. During the editing process, the editor Stephen Roxburgh told Dahl that he was concerned about misogyny in the book. However, he dismissed these concerns by explaining he was not afraid of offending women. The feminist
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professor James Curtis suggests that the rejection of the novel by parents is caused by its focus on “child-hate” and Dahl’s reluctance to shield children from such a reality. The scholar argues that the book showcases a treatment of children that is not actually worse than historical and modern
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on the telephone, she discovers that the Grand High Witch was living in a castle there. They will travel to the Grand High Witch's Norwegian castle, and use the potion to change her successor and assistants into mice, then release cats to destroy them. Using the Grand High Witch's money-making
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The story is narrated from the perspective of an unnamed seven-year-old English boy, who goes to live with his Norwegian grandmother after his parents are killed in a car accident. The boy loves all his grandmother's stories, but he is especially enthralled by the stories about real-life
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The grandmother reveals witches in different countries have different customs and that, while the witches in each country have close affiliations with one another, they are not allowed to communicate with witches from other countries. She also tells him about the mysterious
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The most notable difference from the book is that the boy is restored to human form at the end of the story by the Grand High Witch's assistant (a character who does not appear in the book), who had renounced her former evil. Dahl regarded the film as "utterly appalling".
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article "Not in Front of the Censors" suggests that the least interesting thing to a child about a witch is that they appear to look like a woman, and even offers the perspective that a witch might be a very feminist role model to a young school girl.
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Shortly after arriving back in England, while the boy is working on the roof of his treehouse, he sees a strange woman in black staring up at him with an eerie smile and quickly realises that she is a witch. Later, while the boy is training his pet
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who seek to kill human children. She tells him a real witch looks exactly like an ordinary woman, but there are ways of telling whether she is a witch, such as real witches have claws instead of fingernails, which they hide by wearing
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Robert Carrick believes may have come from the fact that the novel was a departure from Dahl’s usual “all-problem-solving finish.” Dahl did not work on the novel alone; he was aided by editor Stephen Roxburgh, who helped rework
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Roxburgh’s advice was very extensive and covered areas such as improving plots, tightening up Dahl’s writing, and re-inventing characters. Soon after its publication, the novel received compliments for its illustrations by
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To demonstrate the formula's effectiveness, the Grand High Witch brings in a child named Bruno Jenkins, a rich and often greedy boy lured to the convention hall with the promise of free
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Dahl based the novel on his own childhood experiences, with the character of the grandmother modelled on Sofie Dahl, the author’s mother. The author was “well satisfied” by his work on
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printed by her from a magical money-making machine) and give away free sweets and chocolates laced with a drop of her latest creation: "Formula 86 Delayed-Action Mouse-Maker," a magic
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Questions have also been raised about the ending of the book, with some critics suggesting it might encourage suicide in children by telling them they can avoid growing up by dying.
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given to him as a consolation present by his grandmother, the hotel ballroom hosts the "Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children." The boy then sneaks into the
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for a 2018 Festive season premiere. The musical premiered at the National Theatre in November 2023, directed by Lyndsey Turner with book and lyrics by
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at a specified time set by the potion-maker. The intent is for the children's teachers and parents to unwittingly kill the transformed children.
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said concerning the censorship: "Good luck with Roald Dahl. You're just really going to have to replace the whole book if you want things to be
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The novel received mainly positive reviews in the United States, but with a few warnings due to the more fear-inducing parts of it.
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Having returned home, the boy and his grandmother devise a plan to rid the world of witches. Impersonating the chief of police of
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Despite Roald Dahl having urged his publishers to not "so much as change a single comma in one of my books", in February 2023
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and its departure from a typical Dahl novel, several academics have analysed the work. One perspective offered by
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broadcast a two-part dramatisation of the novel by Lucy Catherine, directed by Claire Grove. The cast included
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was criticised for being misogynistic, and banned by some libraries as a result. It appears on the
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critic Catherine Itzin claimed that the book 'is how boys learn to become men who hate women'.
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who had previously collaborated with Dahl. It received mixed reviews and was criticised for
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Cumming, Ed; Buchanan, Abigail; Holl-Allen, Genevieve; Smith, Benedict (24 February 2023).
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Mitchell, Jennifer (2012). ""A Sort of Mouse-Person": Radicalizing Gender in The Witches".
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secretly exist in every country. The witches are ruled by the vicious and powerful
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was ranked number 81 among all-time children's novels in a survey published by
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As specified in the parents' will, the narrator and his grandmother return to
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at no. 61 in their poll of "The 100 greatest children's books of all time".
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A musical adaptation was originally announced to be in development at the
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The reveal kickstarts the BBC's year-long celebration of literature.
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considers it an "unlikely source of inspiration for feminists". The
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The book has been adapted into an unabridged audio reading by
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Honeycombe-Foster, Matt; Blanchard, Jack (21 February 2023).
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Translating Fictional Dialogue for Children and Young People
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as the Grand High Witch, was released in October 2020 on
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in 1992, following a tour and a Christmas season at the
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Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
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Another film adaptation, co-written and directed by
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compliments for its illustrations by Quentin Blake.
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Index

The Witches (book)

Roald Dahl
Quentin Blake
Children's fantasy
Dark fantasy
Jonathan Cape
ISBN
978-1101662977
children's novel
Roald Dahl
dark fantasy
witches
Grand High Witch
mice
Jonathan Cape
Quentin Blake
misogyny
School Library Journal
BBC
100 most influential novels
Royal Mail
commemorative postage stamp
Lynn Redgrave
BBC
1990 film
Nicolas Roeg
Anjelica Huston
Rowan Atkinson
2008 opera

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