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(singing) I want the world. I want the whole world. I want to lock it all up in my pocket. It’s my bar of chocolate. Give it to me now.
— Veruca · Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
Sung with demanding bravado, this declares an insatiable wish to own literally everything, shrinking the whole world down to something as graspable and consumable as a chocolate bar. The exaggerated scale of wanting the entire world against something as ordinary as candy captures pure childish, entitled greed.
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