- All's Well That Ends Well
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- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
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- Henry IV, Part 1
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Everyone’s attention suddenly shifts away from Veruca’s demands for an Oompa-Loompa when Mrs. Gloop notices that Augustus has snuck away to drink from the factory’s chocolate river. This, at first reads, as another (and perhaps not unexpected) indicator of how greedy Augustus is. The novel has already established that out of the four misbehaved children, Augustus’s vice is greed. This is presumably what the novel means when the narrator says that the reader “might have guessed” that Augustus would do such a thing.
However, it’s also possible to read this another way: Augustus may be greedy, but the novel also…