11/5/2022 0 Comments Roald dahl short stories themesIn order to get the coat with out any suspicion from her husband, she pawns it. He gives Mrs.Bixpy a very expensive mink coat as he tells her that their relationship has to come to an end. She would tell her husband that she was seeing her aunt in Ireland but she would actually go see the Colonel. She is having an affair with the Colonel. In the story ” Mrs.Bixpy and the Colonel’s Coat”, an example of where justice is served to an unjust character is Mrs.Bixpy. Uncle Oswald then had to deal with the aftermath of having sexual relations rather than the woman having to deal with it. Instead of Uncle Oswald luring women into having sex with him, the daughter with leprosy had lured Uncle Oswald into having sex with her. You have to have the most intimate contact with the person in order to catch it.”(Dahl Vol.1 298) Uncle Oswald had been beaten at his own game. Abdul Aziz said, “There ́s absolutely nothing in the world for you to worry about. He found out that he had slept with Abdul’s daughter that had leprosy. He later found out that the woman that he had slept with was neither Abdul’s wife or his daughter that he had met. However, this time his promiscuous actions would catch up to him. Uncle Oswald ended up getting just what he had wanted, sex. While he is sleeping a woman gets into bed next to him. Oswald later spent the night at his house. He couldn’t make up his mind of which one to seduce. Uncle Oswald had seen that he had a beautiful wife and daughter. As he was traveling to Jerusalem fleeing from a love escapade in Cairo, he met a rich Arab named Abdul Aziz. We read that Uncle Oswald was a seducer and a womanizer. He is introduced to us through the narrator who had just inherited his uncle’s memoirs. In the story ” The Visitor”, a good example of a person like this is Oswald Hendryks Cornelius, or Uncle Oswald for short. In These short stories, there are characters who manipulate and use other people in unjust and immoral ways. In the short stories “Mrs.Bixpy and the Colonel’s Coat”, “Nunc Dimmitis” and “The Visitor”, Roald Dahl plays with the idea that physical attraction is stronger than emotional attraction and he reinforces the theme that those who betray, deceive and manipulate eventually do get brought to justice, through dark humor and suspense. Justice is a deserved punishment or reward. However, his adult stories usually have a lot darker topics. He wrote for both children and adults alike. Roald Dahl was one of the most prolific and influential writers of the 20th century.
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