Comparing Alice and Wonderland and Through the Looking glass
Alice’s Identity
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).
“When the Caterpillar asks Alice, “Who are you,” and Alice can barely stammer out a reply, “I--hardly know”” (Frey). Many times she did not know the answer to that question. Although as Alice kept going on her journey she realized a lot of things. Alice was still so young she did not know much about maturity. As Trudi Van Dyke said, “Alice’s Struggle with obtaining a greater maturity about herself and society is also evidence in her insecurity about her identity” (Van Dyke). As Alice saw that responsibilities came along with the actions she took in the garden, also came consequences. The things she would do, only a young child
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).
“When the Caterpillar asks Alice, “Who are you,” and Alice can barely stammer out a reply, “I--hardly know”” (Frey). Many times she did not know the answer to that question. Although as Alice kept going on her journey she realized a lot of things. Alice was still so young she did not know much about maturity. As Trudi Van Dyke said, “Alice’s Struggle with obtaining a greater maturity about herself and society is also evidence in her insecurity about her identity” (Van Dyke). As Alice saw that responsibilities came along with the actions she took in the garden, also came consequences. The things she would do, only a young child
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