composers of Alice in Wonderland the novel and the film‚ and the Life of Pi the novel‚ have created a world that is both weird and wonderful. They have done this through their selected forms‚ use of language and film techniques to highlight the bizarre and transform it into a world that seems real. Lewis Carrol uses the form of a fairy tale to describe Alice’s adventure down the rabbit hole‚ Tim Burton focuses on visual techniques to emphasise the extraordinary or supernatural nature of the Alice in Wonderland
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“Curiouser and curiouser!” Lewis Carroll‚ Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Imagine a world where nothing is sane. Everything is mad. And if you’re sane‚ well‚ you’re mad too. This perfectly describes the curious world of Wonderland. This book isn’t just a fairytale‚ it is also a satire. It is a satire of the historical English Wars of the Roses. The wars between the House of Lancaster and the House of York stemmed from the pathetic rule of King Henry VI‚ who was also known as the Red King. His
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Mathematical satire in “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” ”Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” are probably one of the most analyzed-in-class books ever written. It does not take a lot of research to realize that there are numerous different approaches to fully understand that book. In this essay I chose to look at it through a prism of Lewis Carroll’s profession and passion – mathematics. Lewis Carroll‚ or rather Charles Dodgson was an oxford mathematician and was known in particular for being stubbornly
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland‚ written by Lewis Carroll‚ enjoys an unrivalled amount of popularity among readers across the world. It is the story of a young girl who falls down into in a fantastical world where madness is the rule and not an exception. It is a world in which nonsense is ripe: rabbits can talk‚ cats can easily vanish and drowning in one’s own tears is a possibility. However‚ at the end of the book‚ readers‚ who are starved for normalcy‚ are glad to understand that Wonderland is not
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Alice In Wonderland and a Curious Child Lewis Carroll’s classic Alice in Wonderland has entertained not only children but adults for over one hundred years. The tale has become a treasure of philosophers‚ literary critics‚ and psychoanalysts. There appears to be something in Alice for everyone‚ and there are almost as many explanations of the work as there are commentators. One commentary is A Curious Child by Nina Auerbach. Auerbach discussed how Alice is a representation of a middle class child
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Alice in Wonderland – Book Review Alice and Wonderland is a novel written by a man named Lewis Carroll (real name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson). It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into this fantasy ‘wonderland’. This novel tells us about Alice’s weird and wonderful adventures down the rabbit hole and the unusual characters she encounters. She follows a white rabbit that was talking to himself‚ wearing a waistcoat and had a pocket watch‚ down the rabbit hole. She
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Alice in Wonderland is a well known book throughout the world. It was written by Lewis Carroll in 1865. This book was the first book in his series Adventures of Alice in Wonderland‚ the sequel is Through the Looking Glass which is also being made into a movie this year. Alice in Wonderland reached out to people of all ages but was mainly aimed at the children’s audience. This book supplies an abundance of amazing imagery for the kids to go into her world as they read through her adventures. Since
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Feminism in Alice in Wonderland During the Victorian Era‚ women were expected to behave in a very prim and proper manner. Tim Burton’s adaptation of Alice in Wonderland is a tale of Alice’s return to Wonderland‚ where she saves Wonderland and herself‚ defying her role as a young woman during the Victorian Era. Alice challenges the feminist theory by defying her social role as a damsel in distress. A damsel in distress is a stereotype commonly used in literature to describe a young‚ innocent
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The publication of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in 1865 marks the beginning of what is often called the Golden Age of children’s literature‚ a period when‚ for the first time‚ children’s works were written for purposes other than moral uplift. Author Lewis Carroll invented a dreamworld where Alice‚ a remarkably self-possessed child‚ encounters a series of adult eccentrics (among them‚ the Mad Hatter‚ the Ugly Duchess‚ the Mock Turtle)‚ who utter parodies of well known‚ platitudinous poems of
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because I’m not myself‚ you see.” Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland‚ Lewis Carroll’s famous story of a young girl lost in a land of contradictions‚ is full of confusing questions and surreal situations. Despite containing a plethora of themes and motifs‚ Carroll’s most obvious emphasis is on the subject of identity. Carroll’s tale is not only one of a girl seeking to find herself as she grows up‚ it is one of sexual maturation and role selection. At the start‚ Alice is simply a girl. She knows who she
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