A Study Guide for Roald Dahl's "Beware of the Dog"
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Beware of the Dog
Roald Dahl
1944
Introduction
Roald Dahl is one the best-selling authors in history, with more than one hundred million copies of his book in print. He is also unusual in having gained nearly equal prominence as an author of adult fiction and children's books. Dahl is best known through the popular film adaptations of his children's books, including Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) (filmed again in 2005 under its original title as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), The BFG (1989), The Witches (1990), and James and the Giant Peach (1996). Dahl's best-known works for adults are his short stories. All of Dahl's work for both adult and juvenile audiences is marked by its sardonic black humor and its frequent use of twist endings.
Dahl's short story Beware of the Dog
was originally published in the October 1944 issue of Harper's magazine and reprinted in his 1945 collection of aviation stories, Over to You. Although it was the basis of the 1965 film 36 Hours, the story has been neglected by critics and editors, making it among the least commonly anthologized ofDahl's stories. (However, the text is readily available on the Internet.) In Beware of the Dog,
Dahl deals with the themes of perception and the creation of a false reality by the totalitarian forces of society, ideas that are among the most important and pressing in modern literature. Dahl anticipated and perhaps influenced such landmark twentieth-century works as Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four and Patrick MacGoohan's television series The Prisoner.
Author Biography
Dahl was born on September 13, 1916, in Llandaff, Wales (just outside Cardiff). His parents were Norwegian and immigrated to Great Britain specifically for the purpose of having their children attend the English educational system, which they considered the best in the world. Dahl was bilingual in Norwegian and English. He was disposed, both as a child and as an adult, to carrying out elaborate practical jokes, such as an incident in which he and his friends placed a dead mouse in a candy jar in the shop of a candy seller they loathed for the general lack of sanitation on her premises. Just as frequently, he was punished at school for such pranks by being beaten with a cane, though he was also caned for infractions he did not commit (such as cheating on exams). These facts are often pointed to as the background for the extremely violent black humor that permeates his children's books. Upon completing his schooling, Dahl became a sales