Desire From Given Identity and Punishment To Forming Children’s Identity In Roald Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” (1)

I want to address an unnatural desire among children in the novel Charlie and The Chocolate Factory because theywere so obsessed on one thing that seems to be always fulfilled such for  Augustus Gloop already consider food as a hobby and food is the only thing that can attract his attention (as if he should always eat, unlike those in General who only eat when hungry and stop when they are full); Violet who obsessed to break the record for chewing gum so that wherever she goes and whatever she does, he cannot be separated from the gum; Veruca, who always want various things (she doesn't care if it's a living thing or not), no matter how strange the desired object, no matter how hard to get that object, she should be able to get what she wants. She would cry and throw tantrums if she cannot get the object she desired; Mike Teavee that seemed to devote his life only to television would be very upset if he can't watch television or if there are people who are considered disturbing activities are watching television. Who considered as a distraction to his focus while watching television.

Unnatural desire or abnormal behavior shown on the children's attitude was not purely derived from each self, as following quotation from "Being and Time":

“In talking, Dasein expresses itself [spricht sich…aus] not because it has, in the first instance, been encapsulated as something ‘internal’ over against something outside, but because as being-in-the-world it is already ‘outside’ when it understands.” (p.205)

and Sartre in “Being and Nothingness”:

“Human reality is not something which exists first in order afterwards to lack this or that; it exists first as lack and in immediate, synthetic connection with what it lacks.” (p.89)

In the very ends, the various abnormal desires which are influenced by their given identity seems to perform counteroffensive against them and physically can be said this has been a totally deconstruct the identities that they get through the process of imitating and habituation to the various influences of their environment (in this case their parents) who eventually attached on the children. This not only alters the physical form but also automatically change the social life of children so as to form an identity that is completely new.

References

Dahl, Roald. (1990). Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. In THE COMPLETE ADVENTURES OF CHARLIE AND MR WILLY WONKA (pp. 11-160). Puffin Books

Sartre, J. Paul. (1993). Being and Nothingness (Hazel E. Barnes, Trans.). Oxford: Blackwell

Heidegger, Martin. (1962). Being and Time (John Maquarrie & Edward Robinson, Trans.). Oxford: Blackwell