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Humour is an element that will never be absent from Dahl’s creations. According to Nell, much of the Dahlesque humour is achieved by “the creation of bizarre or novel details about what might otherwise seem a fairly
 
 ordinary situation”, making his works fill with randomness and ridiculousness, with simultaneous amusement and terror, anxiety and excitement (194; Duncan 59). Though sometimes critics may accuse Dahl for going too far in exercising his humour, making the scenes horrific to children instead, it may be easier to understand the author’s original intention – to be funny, and at the same time, horrific – with Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of grotesque.