Miss Trunchbull - Agatha
Trunchbull is depicted as being a brawny, muscular middle-aged woman serving as
the remorseless headmistress of Matilda's school, feared by pupils and staff
alike, notorious for her wildly excessive and idiosyncratic discipline: trivial
misdeeds (including simply wearing pigtails incurring punishments up to
potentially fatal physical discipline. She denies ever having been a child
herself, her hatred of them is so great. She is revealed to be the aunt of
Matilda's sweet-natured kindergarten teacher Miss Honey, who
served as Matilda's
childhood caretakers after the passing of her father Magnus.( Miss Honey's exposure to Trunchbull's
abuse as a little girl rendered her quite soft-spoken and timid (Miss
Honey's exposure to Trunchbull's abuse as a little rendered her quite
soft-spoken and timid,. Out of adoration for her schoolteacher, Matilda
used her telekinetic abilities to drive Miss Trunchbull from her own house one
day one day by posing as Magnus's spirit bad levitating a chalk stick to scrawl
a message on the board. Miss Trunchbull was terrified. She subsequently
vanished and gave her house to her niece.
Matilda Wormwood - Matilda
is a young girl of genius intelligence, having developed skills such as walking
and speech at early ages. However, these prodigious characteristics displayed
by her character are perpetually ignored by her wealthy, neglectful, dim-witted
parents who deem their daughter's incredible literacy skills and knowledge as
worthless and spend more time watching television. Angered by her parents'
ignorance and rudeness towards her, her vindictive side is shown through the
vengeful practical jokes that she plays on her parents after they've done wrong
against her (such as replacing her father's hair tonic with her mother's
platinum blonde hair dye and gluing her father's favourite hat to his head with
Superglue).
Miss Jennifer Honey -
Miss Honey was a mild and quiet person who never raised her voice and was
seldom seen to smile, but there is no doubt she possessed that rare gift for
being adored by every small child under her care. Miss Honey is a perfect
teacher, think about it: in the first day of class, only a couple of kids could
spell "cat". By Thursday of the first week, even a slower student
named Prudence can spell "difficulty". If Miss Honey made this happen
in a week imagine how she could help a students learning in a years time. In
other words, Miss Honey doesn't just help genius-level students. She tries to
help everybody, and she does.
Bruce Bogtrotter - Poor Bruce. He's the slightly older
boy who steals some of the Trunchbull's cake and is punished by her in front of
entire assembly. Except, it doesn't out too bad for the kid, and in the end,
Bruce comes out on top. He stands up to Trunchbull makes her punishment lose
effect. It's possible that seeing Bruce do this gives Matilda courage. He
becomes a role model when it comes to standing up to adults and fighting for
the rights of kids everywhere. Its as if he looked the Trunchbull right in the
eye and said, 'bring it on. Do your worst, you old meanie'. This seems to be a
moment that Matilda embraces this idea of fighting back with hope of success.
After all, if Bruce (a silly, over-eating boy) can stand up to the Trunchbull
in such a big a big way, why can't she?
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