What, if anything, is the moral(s) of the story? Overall, he is a strange conflation of child and adult, sane and insane. He is prone to melancholy followed by extreme bouts of enthusiasm. He excoriates greed, yet he manufactures pills and candies that will incite that greed. He also has a dark side, discernible in the way he puts the Bucket family in danger and the way he orchestrates the grandparents' comeuppances. He doesn't like greed or obstructiveness or squabbling or idiocy he likes to mock those who aren't in on his game. Wonka wears a lot of his characteristics on his sleeve: he is wacky, funny, quirky, spontaneous, adventurous, and particular about certain types of behavior. What are the complexities of Wonka's character? He chose a shallow, anodyne boy who will idolize him and carry on his legacy.
Also, on a textual level, Wonka may have decided to award his Factory to a boy who is not at all a threat to him in terms of doing something novel or accomplishing more than Wonka himself. However, his loosely-limned character allows him to be a proxy for the reader, for Charlie's experiences can become their experiences. He is not a bad child, and those moments of courage are important in the text as lessons for young readers. He has no unique characteristics, is not fleshed out, and demonstrates only slightly varying degrees of nervousness, excitement, and courage. Charlie Bucket is not particularly interesting. Is Charlie a strong protagonist? Why or why not? It is impossible to ever know more about this, as Dahl didn't elucidate them much further, but much is disturbing about their robotic execution of Wonka's will. The Oompa-Loompas carry out Wonka's will but seem to delight in doing so, conspiratorially winking, "breaking into convulsive laughter over the eccentricities of the visitors," or gleefully chanting their warnings and messages. They, unable to ever leave the factory, are like Dante's gargoyle demons in a busy, but in their case childlike, underworld" (in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Dahl had written that the creatures stayed there because of their craving for cacao beans). He is dependent on their mass and energy for the execution of his will.
What is the nature of the relationship between Wonka and the Oompa-Loompas?Īs critic Hamida Bosmajian writes frankly, "The master-slave relation between Wonka and his workers is sweer.
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