Research Paper On Alice In Wonderland
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
The children novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is written by Lewis Carroll, whom was a lecturer in mathematics at Christ Church in Oxford. Lewis Carroll was a stammer, and in company with adults in his own age, younger or older, he did very poorly. Nevertheless he did really well among children, which was how he got to write children’s books. Lewis Carroll was inspired to write Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by one of his children friends, named Alice.
In the novel, Alice is a curious and innocent little girl, whom we meet on her travel from childhood to adulthood, where she bumps into puberty.
The environment in Lewis Carroll’s novel is a vital importance for Alice, her reactions and thoughts. Alice …show more content…
is very thoughtful and throughout the novel, the reader discovers, just like Alice, that there cannot be found an easy answer for everything.
The Mad hatter is one of the people who challenge Alice with a puzzle she racks her brain about.
Though Alice is a dreamer and a strong believer in not giving up, which is shown by her courage in every situation she encounters in Wonderland, she does have a hard time finding meaning with the animals and creatures, such as the baby pig she is thrown by the Duchess, and this frustrates her. She is a logic thinker, just like Lewis Carroll, despite her fantasy of course, since it’s her reality mixed with her fantasy and her unconscious that is creating the dream.
Alice try to explain why the Duchess treats its baby with such cruel, but she just cannot see the fairness in the Duchess behavior, that is until she discovers the baby is a pig, and makes out the reason that some of her friends just as well could be changed into pigs.
At this point she realizes that Wonderland is so far from her own world that she needs to change her view on what normal is this symbolizes her journey through puberty. In Wonderland she is never the “right” size, either she’s too big or too small, either way both can get her in trouble.
Her travel through puberty is a difficult travel and she will have to change her view on what is normal, Lewis Carroll’s wish is for her to keep her courage, curiosity and her openness to the world and its
wonders.
In chapter two Alice asks her self ““Who in the world am I?” Ah that’s the great puzzle”, this indicates Alice in puberty, her wondering about who she is, is a completely normal phase in the human puberty and all through life. It frustrates her that she cannot answer this supposedly easy question, which challenge her identity and thinking of herself.
The endless puzzle that she keeps running into is a symbol of life and all its complications.
Every time Alice finds herself in a difficult position, for example between the King and Queen, she utters her opinion and stands by it, this is a fine example of her growing with the challenges she is thrown, also this situation could just as well have been between her parents and her. The Queen and the King could be symbols of her mother and father, and they could be arguing over Alice, the Queen says “off with his head”, translated to “You are not allowed to go to the party”, and the King indulges, but tells Alice behind the Queens back “no one gets their head cut off”, translated to “of course you can go”.
Just before going into the garden, she manages after a couple of attempts, by eating some of the mushroom from the left hand and some from the right hand, to find the right size. This symbolizes that she is much closer to finding herself, than she realizes.
At the very beginning Alice see the garden, but is not quite ready to go in to the garden yet, she needs to go through a couple more stages of her youth before she is ready.
Though in the end when she goes into the garden and play croquet with the Queen and all her servants, Alice has experienced so many odd things, that she is now ready to break out of her chrysalis and become the butterfly she truly is.
The journey that her own unconscious has brought her through has made her wise and made her realize that everything takes starting point in your own actions. This makes her take action, because she realizes that Wonderland only is a dream, and she wakes up to reality.
The children novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is written by Lewis Carroll, whom was a lecturer in mathematics at Christ Church in Oxford. Lewis Carroll was a stammer, and in company with adults in his own age, younger or older, he did very poorly. Nevertheless he did really well among children, which was how he got to write children’s books. Lewis Carroll was inspired to write Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by one of his children friends, named Alice.
In the novel, Alice is a curious and innocent little girl, whom we meet on her travel from childhood to adulthood, where she bumps into puberty.
The environment in Lewis Carroll’s novel is a vital importance for Alice, her reactions and thoughts. Alice …show more content…
is very thoughtful and throughout the novel, the reader discovers, just like Alice, that there cannot be found an easy answer for everything.
The Mad hatter is one of the people who challenge Alice with a puzzle she racks her brain about.
Though Alice is a dreamer and a strong believer in not giving up, which is shown by her courage in every situation she encounters in Wonderland, she does have a hard time finding meaning with the animals and creatures, such as the baby pig she is thrown by the Duchess, and this frustrates her. She is a logic thinker, just like Lewis Carroll, despite her fantasy of course, since it’s her reality mixed with her fantasy and her unconscious that is creating the dream.
Alice try to explain why the Duchess treats its baby with such cruel, but she just cannot see the fairness in the Duchess behavior, that is until she discovers the baby is a pig, and makes out the reason that some of her friends just as well could be changed into pigs.
At this point she realizes that Wonderland is so far from her own world that she needs to change her view on what normal is this symbolizes her journey through puberty. In Wonderland she is never the “right” size, either she’s too big or too small, either way both can get her in trouble.
Her travel through puberty is a difficult travel and she will have to change her view on what is normal, Lewis Carroll’s wish is for her to keep her courage, curiosity and her openness to the world and its
wonders.
In chapter two Alice asks her self ““Who in the world am I?” Ah that’s the great puzzle”, this indicates Alice in puberty, her wondering about who she is, is a completely normal phase in the human puberty and all through life. It frustrates her that she cannot answer this supposedly easy question, which challenge her identity and thinking of herself.
The endless puzzle that she keeps running into is a symbol of life and all its complications.
Every time Alice finds herself in a difficult position, for example between the King and Queen, she utters her opinion and stands by it, this is a fine example of her growing with the challenges she is thrown, also this situation could just as well have been between her parents and her. The Queen and the King could be symbols of her mother and father, and they could be arguing over Alice, the Queen says “off with his head”, translated to “You are not allowed to go to the party”, and the King indulges, but tells Alice behind the Queens back “no one gets their head cut off”, translated to “of course you can go”.
Just before going into the garden, she manages after a couple of attempts, by eating some of the mushroom from the left hand and some from the right hand, to find the right size. This symbolizes that she is much closer to finding herself, than she realizes.
At the very beginning Alice see the garden, but is not quite ready to go in to the garden yet, she needs to go through a couple more stages of her youth before she is ready.
Though in the end when she goes into the garden and play croquet with the Queen and all her servants, Alice has experienced so many odd things, that she is now ready to break out of her chrysalis and become the butterfly she truly is.
The journey that her own unconscious has brought her through has made her wise and made her realize that everything takes starting point in your own actions. This makes her take action, because she realizes that Wonderland only is a dream, and she wakes up to reality.