Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: a twisted Victorian morality tale | Mathilda Gregory
The sadistic Willy Wonka oversees a mega-factory run on slave labour and chooses the boy least likely to succeed as a businessmanWith two film versions, and now a West End musical, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is probably Roald Dahl's most popular kids' tales. And the moral of that tale? Basically, don't complain about starving to death, while living in the shadow of a giant factory full of food (most of which p…