Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Final Paper In the book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland‚ written by Lewis Carroll‚ Alice tries to find her own identity as she navigates her way through the strange fictitious world called “Wonderland”. Carroll uses both changes in Alice’s physical size‚ as well as‚ situations where there is confusion about her identity to illustrate the young heroine’s identity crisis and difficulties she faces in growing up. Whether she is small or tall‚ Alice never seems
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in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland C-uppsats Engelska Termin: Handledare: Examinator: Karlstads universitet 651 88 Karlstad Tfn 054-700 10 00 Fax 054-700 14 60 0 Information@kau.se www.kau.se VT - 11 Åke Bergvall Anna Linzie In the novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll‚ the protagonist Alice is a seven year-old girl. She falls down a rabbit-hole chasing a White Rabbit with a waistcoat and ends up in Wonderland‚ a place where logic no longer
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Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland and Through The Looking-Glass And What She Found There by Lewis Carroll‚ Alice undergoes a kind of awakening or embarkation on a life journey when she enters Wonderland because she learns many things about life there that she would not have in the real world. When Alice meets the Caterpillar‚ the Queen of Hearts‚ and the Mock Turtle‚ she learns a lot about life‚ etiquette‚ and people’s personalities outside of her childish rules and learned manners. Alice matures
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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
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This theme is central to both books. Alice’s adventures parallel the journey from childhood to adulthood. She comes into numerous new situations in which adaptability is absolutely necessary for success. She shows marked progress throughout the course of the book; in the beginning‚ she can barely maintain enough composure to keep herself from crying. By the end of the novel‚ she is self-possessed and able to hold her own against the most baffling Wonderland logic. Size change Closely connected to
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Social Criticism In The Hunger Games And Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland “Off with their heads!“ (Carroll 122) could be the motto of Suzanne Collins’ bestseller The Hunger Games. Published in 2008‚ the novel tells the dystopian story of Katniss‚ a young girl who has to participate in a fight-to-death-tournament with 23 other teenagers. Connoisseurs might have recognized the quotation of the classic Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll‚ first published in 1865. Mostly known as a children’s
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from the crowd and become an outsider. Tim Burton’s films fall under the outcast category. His films are unusually unique. In his films Alice in Wonderland and Edward Scissorhands Burton takes an original idea from his childhood and a common fairytale and pulls out the grim side of the story‚ yet still keeps the film’s child-like feeling. Alice‚ from Alice in Wonderland‚ and Edward from‚ Edward Scissorhands‚ are both characters that are treated as social pariahs and also see the world differently. Tim
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Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. In his book The Art of Fiction‚ David Lodge described poetic symbolism as being "characterised by a shimmering surface of suggested meanings without a denotative core." In this essay‚ Lodge’s definition will be used to aid the discussion of Lewis Carroll’s use of ambiguous symbolism in his 1865 novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Key images in the book such as the infamous Hookah smoking caterpillar on his mushroom and Wonderland itself will be discussed
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positive factor of one’s life; it can lead to the exclusion or segregation of individuals due to barriers that hinder efforts to belong. This is evident in Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible‚ Tim Winton’s short story Neighbours and Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. It is evident in The Crucible that individuals will go to extreme lengths in order to find a place within their community. This results in what appears to be a sense
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dream states which is conceived through the love potion. Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass allow the protagonist‚ Alice‚ to journey through her chaotic dream world in order to achieve what she ultimately desires. Both novels question how strongly the characters want to achieve their ultimate desires by risking what is unknown. In Shakespeare’s Woods and Carroll’s Wonderland‚ they create an unstable reality where fantasy aspects create confusion. The characters
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