“Effective nonsense keeps one foot on the ground; fantasy needs a realistic background, a frame of familiar reference. A tour of Wonderland without the practical, very English little Alice to serve as norm would be tedious indeed. But the presence of Alice as norm, as the embodiment of Victorian practicality and industry, suggests that the Alice books may have satiric implications. (Matthews 109).…
Lewis Carroll wrote a story about a young girl ‘Alice’ who fell through a rabbit whole into a fantasy world inhabited by strange, humanlike creatures. Alice encounters lots of different humanlike creatures throughout her journey through the world of nonsense, poetry and mind-boggling logic, like, the talking flowers, the White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Caterpillar, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the Queen of Hearts, Jabberwocky and the White Queen. Alice’s adventures in Wonderland included shrinking, growing to the size of a giant, attending the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, playing Croquet and attending the Queen of Hearts court.…
“I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.” This quote, said by Lewis Carroll, is true when it comes to growing up, because you cannot be the same as who you yesterday when growing up. This just so happens to be the theme in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, written by Lewis Carroll. Alice can not seem to go through Wonderland without getting confused or lost. While she wanders in Wonderland, she has to manage to go through size changes, which symbolize growing up. Meaning the whole plot of the story ties into growing up and the difficulties you are faced with. In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, symbolism, the setting, and the protagonist, who is Alice, contribute to the theme of the story, which…
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll was first imagined in 1862 and is considered to be a literary classic. Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) was a mathematician and Reverend of the Christ Church University. During a 5 mile boat ride with three young girls he made up the story to keep them entertained. One of the girls, named Alice, asked him to write the story down for her. He made her a book, complete with illustrations and from that Alice in Wonderland was born. Despite its simple beginnings and seemingly innocent meanings, four decades later the book began being challenged for multiple reasons, and joined the banned books list. When the first of these absurd interpretations surfaced, the world was a much different place with different “issues” of the day. It seems that with each interpretation the “issues” of the current time may have been reflected in the analysis' of this enchanting story.…
Alice Paul was born on January 11,1885, in Moorestown, New Jersey. Her father, who died when Alice was sixteen, was a businessman, banker, and property owner. The Pauls lived in the small Quaker community of Moorestown. One of the beliefs of the Quakers was equality of the sexes. As a young girl, Alice attended the Quaker suffrage meetings with her mother.…
Another very common feature of children’s literature is the use of fantasy and magic. Often the use of anthropomorphism is found in children’s literature. As we find in C.S Lewis’s Lion and the Witch and the Wardrobe the children befriend the great Aslan who in fact is a talking lion. Quite similarly as Alice’s adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll 1865. Alice encounters many talking animals in her adventures in Wonderland. For instance the Rabbit, Cheshire Cat and the…
Lewis Carroll had written two books and they were “Alice in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking Glass.” The character of Alice is based on a real girl, called Alice Liddell, who was one of the author 's child-friends. Alice is the main character of the story "Alice 's Adventures in Wonderland" and the sequel "Through the Looking Glass and what Alice found there". She is a seven-year-old English girl with lots of imagination and is fond of showing off her knowledge. Alice is polite, well raised and interested in others, although she sometimes makes the wrong remarks and upsets the creatures in Wonderland. She is easily put off by abruptness and rudeness of others. While in “Alice in Wonderland” she has an identity crisis, believing she has been swapped by someone else, and in “Through the Looking Glass” she loses her identity completely by forgetting her name and other stuff about her. Along the way she learns who she is and learns to become more mature as she goes through this adventure in her imagination. “Although the Alice character is only seven, far too young to be on the verge of adulthood, the real-life Alice Liddell, for whom Carroll wrote the book and whom he based his young heroine, was, at the time he wrote the book, 11 years old, an adolescent who would have begun questioning herself identity” (Brackett).…
In the piece entitled, "Alice” the author, Paulette White uses a narrator to portray the main character. This narrator does not act as an observer, rather as a participant of the action, recalling it from memory. The narrator happily satisfied my curiosity about Alice, with the repugnant recollection of the once drunk mother, to the now sober and charismatic grandmother. The narrator's relationship with Alice is unique.…
In the collection of stories, “In Search of our Mother’s Gardens,” Alice Walker, has one related to Flannery O’Connor. In Alice Walker’s, “Beyond the Peacock,” she journeys back to her hometown on a mission for wholeness. She experiences this walk through memory lane with her own mother.…
In the movie ‘Alice in Wonderland’, directed by Tim Burton the themes adolescent recklessness and the characteristic; curiosity, both tie together to create a very troublesome character as she tend to…
Alice in wonderland is an adventurous book full of mystery, conflicts, and surprisingly allegory. Alice goes through trails, revelations, and at one point even gets accused of “being the wrong Alice.” In this story, Alice believes that she is dreaming and having a weird one at that, but in reality she is not really dreaming. Alice is really trying to find herself and with that she is portraying the conflicts in her life through the world of wonderland. To me wonderland is just a dimension of realization and a way for Alice to find the answers to the questions that she needs. But will Alice realize this in time or will she go on through her “dream” without any realization at all? In Alice in wonderland there are many cases of allegory. The cases the i will be pointing out and defining in my own words are “The Rabbit Hole”, “Size and Growth”, and “The Looking - Glass.” In this essay i will explain my theories and definitions of the allegory in Alice in Wonderland.…
Alice is confused by adulthood but strives to be a mature young woman, in that she is constantly trying to fit in. Alice in Wonderland has more adult themes helping her transition into an adult, what she wants. Odd that she starts to get there through a land with talking cats and bunnies. Her polar opposite is Peter Pan. He refuses to grow up, the thought scares him deeply. His innocence shows he only sees the world as good or bad nothing in between. These young protagonists are surrounded by casts of characters that help outline which side the separate authors take on growing up. All in all these two opposites make the tales all the more interesting even if they are completely…
Alice faces many obstacles throughout her time in Wonderland. Most of them are because of the transition from childhood to becoming a young adult. Alice clearly represents the struggle children have when entering the world of adults. Also, Alice is trying to survive and understand who she is now because she doesn’t know who she is anymore. Like the Cheshire cat said: “Everyone in wonderland is mad, including you”. He meant that all adults are mad for children and Alice doesn’t believes that and she feels confused and out of place.…
When I first read Jabberwocky, probably the most famous poem from Lewis Carroll, I was in fifth grade. I recalled thinking, I must be doing something right. I had created some words my own and found myself vindicated. In the sequel Through the Looking Glass as an Alice’s second Adventure, and what Alice encounter there. Carroll used his playful nature one more time when in the first chapter Alicia reads a poem called the Jabberwocky.…
Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and what Alice found there…