Feminist Theory Approaching Alice in Wonderland Many people think women are subordinate than men. However‚ there are those who do not want to demonstrate the characteristics of a stereotypical woman. In the film Alice in Wonderland‚ Tim Burton uses the protagonist Alice as a rebellious woman who fights for what she wants. It is evident Burton uses Feminist Theory to help demonstrate how the protagonist grows into a self-reliant woman. Through this‚ Alice realizes she has to go against the stereotypical
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Title In today’s society there are standards for the way people look‚ dress‚ and speak. If one person‚ piece of literature‚ or film fractures one single rule‚ they emerge 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
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Wonderland where she experiences many strange encounters such as growing and shrinking in size‚ and meeting curious characters including a Mad Hatter‚ a hookah-smoking caterpillar‚ and a smiling Cheshire Cat. Alice is the protagonist‚ meaning she’s the main character‚ and the story is told from her point of view. Some major characters include the White Rabbit‚ the Mad Hatter‚ the Queen of Hearts‚ the Duchess‚ the Cheshire cat‚ and the Caterpillar. ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION Alice in Wonderland is a classic
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like setting the dogs on them”‚ which can be effectively reflected towards the red queen she bellows “OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!” similarities can also be drawn between the mad hatter and Alice’s recently deceased father‚ Charles Kingsleigh (Marton Csokas) as they both share the same‚ slightly mad but loveable personality. The mad hatter often repeats the phrase “I’m investigating things that begin with the letter M”‚ which can be linked to the mercury poising that can be affiliated with hat makers as
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Alice in Wonderland (Tim Burton‚ 2010) The film is inspired by Lewis Carroll’s novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass‚ and What Alice Found There (1871). The nineteen-year-old Alice now returns to Wonderland from her childhood adventure‚ where she reunites with her old friends and learns her true identity: to end the Red Queen’s reign of terror‚ slay the Jabberwocky‚ a dragon-like creature controlled by the Red Queen and restore the White Queen
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According to the Oxford dictionary‚ dreams are a series of thoughts‚ images and sensations occurring in a person’s mind during sleep. A person can experience many different types of dreams‚ whether it is nightmares‚ daydreams‚ or fantasies. In fantasy texts there has been one commonality‚ the characters indulge in dreams in order to achieve something they have greatly desired. In William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ he constructs a sort of dream world where characters get mixed up through
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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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Theme: Weird and Bizarre. The 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
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Critical Analysis Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass‚ written in 1865 and 1871 respectively‚ are often regarded as a one and two volume set written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pen name and pseudonym Lewis Carroll. Dodgson wrote several essays on mathematics and symbolic logic as an Oxford lecturer in mathematics‚ but it was under the pen name Lewis Carroll‚ that he published his most famous works‚ the children’s
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frowned upon‚ into qualities that are unique and beautiful. This showed to the viewer when Alice was infiltrating the Red Kingdom and she ate the cake that made her grow‚ and then the Red Queen accepted her solely because of her extra-large head. The Mad Hatter was an old psychopath who couldn’t fit in anywhere‚ but he figured out the only way to embrace his differences and used his talent of making hats to actually fit in. Burton tends to portray this common theme in a majority of his
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