Willy Wonka is an odd person who has eccentric style. While most people, mainly children, would love to have him as the government owing to the fact that he owns a chocolate factory and contributes to most of the consumers' favourite sweets. If Willy Wonka and his factory were real they would help the people who don’t have a lot of money to spend on extravagant foods or sweets instead they can easily buy one of his 3 Course Dinner Gum’s or a Gobstopper which can last for a week or longer. Wonka continually says that “there is no life to compare with pure imagination.” Despite his quirks and odd behavior, Wonka pushes people to lean into their imagination and hold onto hope. I believe that if Willy Wonka was the government he would want to help children the most. Yes he would also care about the adults and would no doubt also help them. However, he might have a soft spot for children who have difficult home situations or who don’t have homes at all like he did.
However nice this may be, we cannot ignore his faults starting with the fact that he is paranoid and does not know how to deal with big problems. Upon finding out that other people were sending spies disguised as workers to steal his recipes he fired every single person working for him instead of finding an actual solution. He then proceeded to live in complete isolation from the rest of the world for ten years. By cutting himself off from people for so long he would have lost contact from human emotions and the needs of other people. As proved when he had a tour of his chocolate factory he had no qualms against saying what came on his mind to other people, something which is considered rude in the society. He spent all that time researching a way to make his factory work without letting people he doesn’t trust inside. He finally found the perfect workers. Upon finding these workers he travelled to their native home and convinced them to work for him for cacao beans which were a favourite of the people there. So, the pygmies traded their freedom for permanent enslavement and all the cacao beans they could eat .However it seems that nobody actually knew who worked there which would lead us to the fact that he hid this information. While this may seem to be the perfect life to the Oompa-Loompas there were many restrictions like the fact that he did not allow the workers to ever leave the factory. Yes, he gave them what they wanted but on his own terms. Wonka shipped them over here, every man, woman, and child in the Oompa-Loompa tribe.. He smuggled them over in large packing cases with holes in them, and they all got here safely. This is both slavery and illegal. He also used them to test his products, some of which were dangerous. Willy Wonka has also proven that the thing he cares about the most and the only thing that really matters to him is his chocolate factory. I think that more likely than not he would pass on the responsibilities of running the government to the Oompa-Loompas who spent many years in their forest and who do not know how to take care of an entire country.
I can however understand where he was coming from. He grew up with a strict father who was a dentist and therefore did not have the luxury of eating many chocolates which is probably why he opened a chocolate factory. In fact he once ran away from home and when he returned it was to find that his home had disappeared, he was only a child then. Both of these factors would have once again changed his view on the social norms and the way families act towards each other.
In conclusion, in my opinion Willy Wonka would not be the best choice to run the government as he is rather detached from human feelings and might not like it if things didn’t go as he planned. However, in his own way he really does help people.
Willy Wonka, The leader of the Chocolate World
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