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Roald Dahl books rewritten to remove controversial language
Augustus Gloop is now described as ‘enormous’ rather than ‘fat’
Fat, ugly and flabby are among the hundreds of words that have been removed from Roald Dahl’s children’s books so the stories “can continue to be enjoyed by all today”.
Publishers have made a string of changes to Dahl’s work, primarily around language related to weight, mental health, violence, gender and race. They have also inserted sentences into the books which were not written by the author.
In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, for example, Augustus Gloop is described as “enormous” rather than “fat”.
Mrs Twits from The Twits is now just “beastly” rather than “ugly and beastly”.
References to “female” characters have also been changed to say “woman”, ”the Daily Telegraph found. Miss Trunchball, for example, is described as a “most formidable woman” instead of “female”.
In The Witches, 59 changes were said to have been made, the publication said.
One paragraph explaining that witches are bald beneath their wigs ends with the new line: “There are plenty of other reasons why women might wear wigs and there is certainly nothing wrong with that.”
Gender-neutral terms have also been added. The Oompa Loompas in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory are now called “small people” instead of “small men”. References to mother and father have been replaced with “parents”, with mentions of girls and boys becoming “children”.
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