Engagement:
Genre:
Comedy / Humor
Published:
1980
Page Count:
76
Where to Buy:
The Twits
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Content Ratings
Light Themes
The Twits represent cruelty and ugliness of spirit; their downfall is comic and satisfying; themes of justice, the ugliness of meanness, and the triumph of the oppressed are central; the tone is gleefully subversive.
Mild Violence
The Twits are cruel to each other and to animals; monkeys are kept in cages; a family of birds is caught with glue; the violence is cartoonish and serves poetic justice; the tone is darkly comic.
Synopsis
Mr. and Mrs. Twit are the nastiest, ugliest, most disgusting couple imaginable, who delight in playing cruel pranks on each other and tormenting the animals they keep captive—until the animals devise a plan for revenge. A gleefully gross and wickedly funny Dahl classic.