Crunchem Hall

Even though Miss Trunchbull founded Crunchem Hall in the book, there was a school board that supposedly told her she was not allowed to hit the children there.

She is also shown to be a manipulative woman, as she hired some teenage students to work for her by scaring and bullying the kids, but it was revealed that she just using them because of their own suffering she make them endure in their childhood, she is also afraid of a black cat and a ghost in the musical. The primary school in an unknown village. In the book, the Trunchbull is mentioned in passing by Dahl as the evil headmistress of Crunchem Hall. Thankfully, the Trunchbull was toppled by Matilda's quick thinking and magical powers, who tricked her into believing she was being haunted by the ghost of her brother-in-law (who, it is implied, may have been murdered by the Trunchbull in order to inherit his estate) - upon being convinced of this haunting, she fled in terror. Subsequently, Trunchbull is chased by a bunch of children who told her to run, and she fled away from the school.

Agatha Trunchbull (Legourdin): Directrice de Crunchem Hall, championne anglaise de lancer du marteau 1969, et tante de Jennifer Candy, elle prend plaisir à torturer ses élèves avec des techniques de son invention (les lancer comme un marteau, leur tirer les oreilles, les obliger à manger un énorme gâteau...). She also keeps of secret of being very superstitious and naive, which is a weakness that became exploited by Matilda. She harbors an intense hatred of and total distrust of all children for unknown reasons and thinks nothing of literally hurling them vast distances and confining those who dare to oppose her into a medieval torture-device that resembles an iron maiden called the Chokey. For Matilda Wormwood and her fellow pupils at Crunchem Hall - including Lavender, Hortensia, Bruce Bogtrotter and Amanda Thripp - heading back to school means facing down The Trunchbull. However, she is first given a detailed description by a girl named Hortensia, who has been an adversary of the Trunchbull throughout her time at school. She approaches Matilda, and calls her "fresh meat".

She is very attached to her success as an Olympic athlete for Great Britain and she considers herself to be an idol for other people to follow. Crunchem Hall is one of the main settings of the film Matilda. She surrounds herself with her trophies and reminds herself that, regardless of her emotions or the emotions of others, following the procedures of life is the only way to success. At Miss Honey's silent suggestion, Matilda then made the globe spin around and around, and the Trunchbull went flying off and collapses onto the floor unconscious. This was showcased when she callously made a note of Matilda's mathematic prowess as being made redundant and mundane by the use of calculators or how she rudely described Amanda Thrip's mother a "twit" for thinking her pigtails are sweet.

She then went on a rampage, trying to find Matilda and Miss Honey after discovering someone has entered her house. Her fear is later used as a weakness for Matilda to scare her thus teaching Miss Trunchbull a lesson. When she entered the house, she angrily called Mr. Wormwood and threatened to sue and kill him. After coming to, she attacks Lavender by charging like a bull, but she was saved by Matilda's power, sending the Trunchbull crashing right through the door into the hallway. She is also very bitter, aggressive, self-confident and assertive, exhibiting her dominance around the school. If you ever meet a teacher or a person like her you must run for your life. The Trunchbull has a sarcastic, sardonic and condescending sense of humor, often speaking to the children In a patronising and demeaning manner, and making berating comments about them for her own amusement. She is the former headmistress of Crunchem Hall Elementary School, Miss Jennifer Honey's aunt, and Matilda Wormwood's arch-nemesis.

When Amanda feebly protests saying her mother loves them, the Trunchbull yells that her mother's a twit and literally picks up the terrified girl and whirls her round and round, yelling "I'll give you but!"

In the novel, Matilda Wormwood believed that part of the reason why her tortures and punishments were so extreme was in order to make the stories about how she punished the children absolutely impossible to believe for a reasonable person; that way, nobody (except whoever saw the Trunchbull executing her punishments) would do anything to stop her, for the simple reason that they would think those stories were simply a product of the children's uncontrolled imagination.