At 50, everyone has the face they deserve.’ This formulation, proposed by George Orwell shortly before his death in 1949, is the blueprint for the story of Mrs Twit. Mrs Twit – first name unknown – has a ‘fearful ugliness’. Her ugliness has not, however, been conferred on her by genes, but by thinking ugly thoughts ‘every day, every week, every year’ – a physical manifestation of her interior hideousness. ‘Nothing shone out of Mrs Twit’s face,’ Dahl says, definitively. Roald Dahl’s books are all terrifying in some way, but none is more harrowing than The Witches. Yet even through the blind horror, I maintained a perverse desire for my comparatively dreary British seaside holidays to be livened up by encountering a coven of oddly alluring child-torturing demons. Despite this, her personae in the movie portrays a considerably more human, maternal aspect to her, as she is shown to genuinely care for Matilda - to some degree. She willingly invites the whole family to a meal at a high-class café, expresses concern that 'there is something wrong with that girl,' (since she is still oblivious as to how she, Mr. Wormwood and Michael behave towards Matilda) and is genuinely saddened by Matilda's decision to stay with Miss Honey. As they leave, Mrs. Wormwood tells Matilda that she was the only daughter she had ever had, and that they never had time to understand her.

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The Witches are very conniving and manipulative, fooling human authorities to believing they are respectable women. Also, all Witches are female. Dahl says he is not being sexist here, but it is just a fact of life, that all witches are women, and there is no such thing as a male witch, and to explain this, he says that barghests, another demonic species, are always male, just as witches are always female. However, neither of them are really humans anyway. The portrayal of witches were considerably dark for a children's book, as they were all guilty of casting harmful spells of children, which included trapping them inside a painting or polymorphing them into animals, especially the ones that their parents hated. American Witches are said to turn children into hot-dogs that their parents consume without even knowing that. They would usually go after a child once per week.

The popular image we have of Dahl – a benign, grandfatherly figure, slightly bent over his writing desk – tends to obscure the extraordinary life he recounts in the book. Filled with top tips and ideas boxes, each book introduces techniques and methods to help you plan and write a phizz-whizzing story of your own! Read more Details The Witches are a secret society of evil witches who possess dark magic and the titular primary antagonists of both the Roald Dahl book and film adaptations of the same name. They are actually female demons who have come to Earth, and for thousands of years, they have made it their duty to rid the world of children, which they loathe due to children smelling like "dog's droppings" to them.Today, titles like Fantastic Mr Fox, The BFG and Matilda, which was released just two years before his death aged 74 in 1990, regularly appear on lists of the best children's books ever – including BBC Culture's own. Collectively, his books have sold more than 300 million copies worldwide, their stories also spawning stage and screen adaptations, including a recently announced prequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, set to star teen crush Timothée Chalamet as a young Willy Wonka.