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Is Matilda allegorical? Can you give me an example from the text?

We don't get to control how people in the future will reinterpret the stories we have today. People in the future could reinterpret anything. That's their right, once we've moved on.

At a practical level, it makes no sense to live in the shadow of future generations' judgement. We're going to earn their scorn regardless. And so will they, if humanity survives long enough.

>>joseph+(OP)
That's up to you but I think I'd be very concerned about my part in publishing what later went on to incite acts of hatred. I believe Matilda does not promote anything like that, but it's only by considering it in context that I would have thought to look for it and make that determination. Caring about it doesn't automatically mean wanting to see the work censored, or worse, silently modified. But personally if I saw a problem like that I wouldn't want to be involved in the publication or promotion of it.