Matilda

MATILDA Matthew Lewis succeeds in portraying Matilda in The Monk as the Dark Hero conventional prototype referred to as the femme fatale. The femme fatale is a hero type who uses her feminine wiles to seduce lovers, who subsequently find themselves in dangerous or difficult situations. Lewis’ creation of a masculine gothic novel contributes to the characterisation of Matilda and her fulfillment of the Dark Hero role. The masculine gothic novel provides that characters and readers witness…

Accordingly, in the short story titled “The Necklace”; the main character, Matilda, is weak minded to an extent where her vanity brings her great suffering. Matilda suffers through a negative transformation of her social status which is due to: her excessive desire for luxuries she can not afford, her inability to appreciate what she has, and her need to present herself as someone she is not. In the beginning of the story, Matilda is presented as a beautiful looking woman with a loving husband…

Kari and Matilda “The best accessory a girl can own is confidence. (Anonymous)”, this is a quote that clearly defines Matilda and Kari in “Jack-Jack Attack” and Matilda. That quote describes Matilda when she uses her magical powers and Kari when she was sure of her babysitting abilities. In the movie Matilda, the main character, Matilda, used her magical powers to help people at a school with an evil principal by the name of Mrs. Trunchbull. Kari, from “Jack-Jack Attack”, babysat a little baby…

In the novel fever 1793, Matilda Cook remained in Philadelphia while all the upperclassmen fled and she changed drastically. She was very dependent on her mother and she always needed her help. Not only did she change she stayed the same. She was still really worrisome and stressed. Matilda has always been a very caring person. In fever 1793 she cares a lot for a little girl named Nell because Nell’s mother has died from the yellow fever, so Matilda takes her on as a…

“Just because you find that life’s not fair, it doesn’t mean that you just have to grin and bear it! If you always take it on the chin and wear it, you might as well be saying, you think that it’s okay- and that’s not right!” –Matilda the Musical This quote is very important to me for many reasons. It’s from my favorite musical about a young girl who fights back against adults who abuse their authority over her. This quote is from the song titled “Naughty,” and it is a reoccurring line and…

Fourteen-year-old Matilda (Mattie) Cook lived above a coffeehouse in Philadelphia during the late 1700’s. She shared the home with Lucille, her widowed mother, Captain William Farnsworth Cook, her grandfather who was a retired sailor along-with King George, his parrot, in addition to Silas, her orange cat. Lucille was an extremely bad cook, but fortunately, she hired an African- American woman named Eliza to prepare the meals. The coffeehouse that the Cook family lived above and owned was built…

Inspired by the book, “The Collected Tales of Nurse Matilda,” by Christianna Brand and Edward Ardizzone, the film “Nanny McPhee (2005),” directed by Kirk Jones, embeds the laboring trials a nanny, a person who is employed to take care of a child, goes through to establish valuable lesson into the minds of their charge. The film came to life with the expertises of great actress and actor who starred in the film: Emma Thompson (who played magical Nanny McPhee), Colin Firth (who play Mr. Cedric…

The Wizard of Oz by Victor Fleming and Matilda by Roald Dahl. Dorothy and Matilda, protagonists imagined in different centuries, come to recognize the value of love and family over the illusory world of imagination, a contrast emphasized by the ironic use of darkness and light. Dorothy and Matilda,…

In The Landlady, Roald Dahl, the author, used five unusually words that consist of, brisk, congenial, conjured, rapacious, and compulsion. Brisk has an origin of French and English. The meaning of brisk is the same as, active, fast, and/or energetic. In the story Roald had said “He walked briskly down the street,” so he was saying that Billy was walking quickly or fast down the street. The next word that he used was congenial, which means, pleasant because of a personality, qualities, or…

Matilda Cook, Little Mattie, is a 14 year old girl who lived through the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1793. She lived above a Cook Coffeehouse, owned by her family. She lived with her mother, grandfather, cat, Silas, and her grandfather’s annoying, bad mouthed parrot, King George. Lucile, Matilda’s mother, hasn’t been the same since her husband died. She was a busybody and kept Matilda busy, cleaning and waitressing in the Coffeehouse. Matilda’s grandfather, Captain William Farnsworth Cook, was…