Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

by

Roald Dahl

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Violet Beauregarde Character Analysis

Violet Beauregarde is the third child to find a Golden Ticket; she’s Mr. Beauregarde and Mrs. Beauregarde’s daughter. She’s an avid gum-chewer and has even broken a world record: the piece of gum she’s chewing when she finds her Golden Ticket (and that she still has at the time of the factory tour) is the same one that she’s been chewing for three months. She insists on chewing gum despite Mrs. Beauregarde’s insistence that it’s not ladylike. Violet and her mother have a poor relationship, as Violet regularly snaps at her mother when Mrs. Beauregarde tries to tell her to do something. Violet, like Augustus, Veruca, and Mike, needs to be restrained to stop her from clambering over the chocolate factory’s fence before the tour. On the tour, Violet is the second child to have to end her visit early. In the Inventing Room, Violet snatches a piece of gum that provides the chewer with a three-course meal from Mr. Wonka, ignoring his warnings that it’s not yet ready for consumption because it still has issues. Though she enjoys the tomato soup and roast beef courses, when she gets to the blueberry pie and cream, she turns blue and expands until she’s round like a blueberry. The Oompa-Loompas have to juice her to return her to her normal size. As she leaves the tour group for the Juicing Room, Oompa-Loompas sing about how awful it is when people chew gum all the time.

Violet Beauregarde Quotes in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

The Charlie and the Chocolate Factory quotes below are all either spoken by Violet Beauregarde or refer to Violet Beauregarde. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Vice and Virtue Theme Icon
).
Chapter 8 Quotes

“‘And who’s she to criticize, anyway, because if you ask me, I’d say that her jaws are going up and down almost as much as mine are just from yelling at me every minute of the day.’”

“‘Now, Violet,’ Mrs. Beauregarde said from a far corner of the room where she was standing on the piano to avoid being trampled by the mob.

“‘All right, Mother, keep your hair on!’ Miss Beauregarde shouted.”

Related Characters: Violet Beauregarde (speaker), Mr. Bucket (speaker), Mrs. Beauregarde (speaker), Charlie Bucket
Related Symbols: Golden Tickets
Page Number: 31
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 13 Quotes

The tall bony old figure of Grandpa Joe could be seen standing quietly among them, and beside him, holding tightly on to his hand, was little Charlie Bucket himself.

All the children, except Charlie, had both their mothers and fathers with them, and it was a good thing that they had, otherwise the whole party might have gotten out of hand. They were so eager to get going that their parents were having to hold them back by force to prevent them from climbing over the gates.

Related Characters: Charlie Bucket, Grandpa Joe, Mr. Willy Wonka, Augustus Gloop, Veruca Salt, Violet Beauregarde, Mike Teavee
Related Symbols: Golden Tickets
Page Number: 54
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 15 Quotes

“Don’t you think they look pretty? I told you I hated ugliness! And of course they are all eatable! All made of something different and delicious! And do you like my meadows? Do you like my grass and my buttercups? The grass you are standing on, my dear little ones, is made of a new kind of soft, minty sugar that I’ve just invented! I call it swudge! Try a blade! Please do! It’s delectable!”

Automatically, everybody bent down and picked one blade of grass—everybody, that is, except Augustus Gloop, who took a big handful.

Related Characters: Mr. Willy Wonka (speaker), Charlie Bucket, Augustus Gloop, Veruca Salt, Violet Beauregarde, Mike Teavee
Related Symbols: Chocolate
Page Number: 66
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 21 Quotes

“I want the gum!” Violet said obstinately. “What’s so silly?”

“I would rather you didn’t take it,” Mr. Wonka told her gently. “You see, I haven’t got it quite right yet. There are still one or two things….”

“Oh, to heck with that!” said Violet, and suddenly, before Mr. Wonka could stop her, she shot out a fat hand and grabbed the stick of gum out of the little drawer and popped it into her mouth. At once, her huge well-trained jaws started chewing away on it like a pair of tongs.

Related Characters: Mr. Willy Wonka (speaker), Violet Beauregarde (speaker), Mrs. Beauregarde (speaker)
Page Number: 95
Explanation and Analysis:

Her body was swelling up and changing shape at such a rate that within a minute it had turned into nothing less than an enormous round blue ball—a gigantic blueberry, in fact—and all that remained of Violet Beauregarde herself was a tiny pair of legs and a tiny pair of arms sticking out of the great round fruit and a little head on top.

“It always happens like that,” sighed Mr. Wonka. “I’ve tried it twenty times in the Testing Room on twenty Oompa-Loompas, and every one of them finished up as a blueberry. It’s most annoying. I just can’t understand it.”

Related Characters: Mr. Willy Wonka (speaker), The Oompa-Loompas, Violet Beauregarde
Page Number: 99-100
Explanation and Analysis:
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Violet Beauregarde Quotes in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

The Charlie and the Chocolate Factory quotes below are all either spoken by Violet Beauregarde or refer to Violet Beauregarde. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Vice and Virtue Theme Icon
).
Chapter 8 Quotes

“‘And who’s she to criticize, anyway, because if you ask me, I’d say that her jaws are going up and down almost as much as mine are just from yelling at me every minute of the day.’”

“‘Now, Violet,’ Mrs. Beauregarde said from a far corner of the room where she was standing on the piano to avoid being trampled by the mob.

“‘All right, Mother, keep your hair on!’ Miss Beauregarde shouted.”

Related Characters: Violet Beauregarde (speaker), Mr. Bucket (speaker), Mrs. Beauregarde (speaker), Charlie Bucket
Related Symbols: Golden Tickets
Page Number: 31
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 13 Quotes

The tall bony old figure of Grandpa Joe could be seen standing quietly among them, and beside him, holding tightly on to his hand, was little Charlie Bucket himself.

All the children, except Charlie, had both their mothers and fathers with them, and it was a good thing that they had, otherwise the whole party might have gotten out of hand. They were so eager to get going that their parents were having to hold them back by force to prevent them from climbing over the gates.

Related Characters: Charlie Bucket, Grandpa Joe, Mr. Willy Wonka, Augustus Gloop, Veruca Salt, Violet Beauregarde, Mike Teavee
Related Symbols: Golden Tickets
Page Number: 54
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 15 Quotes

“Don’t you think they look pretty? I told you I hated ugliness! And of course they are all eatable! All made of something different and delicious! And do you like my meadows? Do you like my grass and my buttercups? The grass you are standing on, my dear little ones, is made of a new kind of soft, minty sugar that I’ve just invented! I call it swudge! Try a blade! Please do! It’s delectable!”

Automatically, everybody bent down and picked one blade of grass—everybody, that is, except Augustus Gloop, who took a big handful.

Related Characters: Mr. Willy Wonka (speaker), Charlie Bucket, Augustus Gloop, Veruca Salt, Violet Beauregarde, Mike Teavee
Related Symbols: Chocolate
Page Number: 66
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 21 Quotes

“I want the gum!” Violet said obstinately. “What’s so silly?”

“I would rather you didn’t take it,” Mr. Wonka told her gently. “You see, I haven’t got it quite right yet. There are still one or two things….”

“Oh, to heck with that!” said Violet, and suddenly, before Mr. Wonka could stop her, she shot out a fat hand and grabbed the stick of gum out of the little drawer and popped it into her mouth. At once, her huge well-trained jaws started chewing away on it like a pair of tongs.

Related Characters: Mr. Willy Wonka (speaker), Violet Beauregarde (speaker), Mrs. Beauregarde (speaker)
Page Number: 95
Explanation and Analysis:

Her body was swelling up and changing shape at such a rate that within a minute it had turned into nothing less than an enormous round blue ball—a gigantic blueberry, in fact—and all that remained of Violet Beauregarde herself was a tiny pair of legs and a tiny pair of arms sticking out of the great round fruit and a little head on top.

“It always happens like that,” sighed Mr. Wonka. “I’ve tried it twenty times in the Testing Room on twenty Oompa-Loompas, and every one of them finished up as a blueberry. It’s most annoying. I just can’t understand it.”

Related Characters: Mr. Willy Wonka (speaker), The Oompa-Loompas, Violet Beauregarde
Page Number: 99-100
Explanation and Analysis: