Matilda Wormwood's Isolation

There is something to be said about an individual who can create their own happiness; even more is to be said when that individual is a child. In the life of a human, a child coming into the world is forced to be dependent. A child cannot do much beyond sleep and cry, that is what creates the love and radiant glow in becoming a parent, when a person celebrates the life they created out of love and brought into the world with just as much. However, this was not the case in the beautiful and terrible event of Matilda Wormwood’s birth. Brought into the world and viewed as a nuisance, a waste of money, time, and energy, she was the “one mistake”.
This idea of isolation began as soon as the movie did, with this new born baby strapped into a car seat and left in the back seat of a nice car while her parents walked into their nice house. As the narrator says- they had nice things, but they were not nice people. The movie fails to address much else of Matilda’s infancy, much like a human cannot recall this

However, the characters who play abusive and negative roles in Matilda’s life have names that hurt the tongue. Agatha Trunchbull and Harry Wormwood star as Matilda’s greatest oppressors, further evoked by their stereotypical ugly and untrustworthy looks , their names create a sense of negativity that seeps deep into the viewer’s unconscious. Even when it came to the small details of what Miss Honey’s father called her- bumblebee- it was something innocent and sweet. Miss Honey’s appreciation for the gifts Matilda has fed into the powers Matilda has other than moving objects with her mind. The love and support from Miss Honey encouraged Matilda to get smarter and work harder in her life, encouraged her to be happier with herself no matter the social stigma placed upon her by her family. This allows Matilda to be two different people- one person around Miss Honey, and another around the