“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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Alice in Wonderland is an animated film produced in 1951 by Walt Disney. Just by breaking down the title of Alice in Wonderland one can assume this is a journey of dreams and imagination. The definition of dream is to see or imagine in sleep or in a vision. Alice "goes down the rabbit hole" a metaphor for taking hallucinogenic drugs into a land of dreams and imagination. Join me as I take a deeper look into Alice’s journey down the rabbit hole. This movie symbolizes lots of different drug uses
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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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very well known for his unique use of cinematic techniques. His movies are also popular for his use of horror in a childlike manner. Though the use of contrasting colors‚ non-diegetic music‚ and lighting Burton shows in Edward Scissorhands and Alice in Wonderland how it’s better to be different and yourself than conforming to a restrictive society. Burton uses contrasting colors in Edward Scissorhands in order to show how dissimilar Edward is. In Edward Scissorhands‚ all the houses‚ cars‚ and people’s
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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
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Hannah A. Mercado IV Narra Literature Alice in Wonderland is a renown classic written by Lewis Carroll from 1865. While on a boat party‚ Lewis told tales to three children for entertainment. One of the children‚ Alice‚ was enamored by the story and requested that he write it down. This is what inspired the story. It is whimsical and caters to children’s delight and to some readers it is confusing at most. To better understand the tale‚ we will breakdown Alice’s character as an archetypal hero.
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Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland‚” is a satirical fiction novel where the main character‚ Alice finds herself in a strange chaotic world that causes her to question all she understands in her young mind. Lewis Carroll creates the memorable character of Alice in “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland‚” through the characteristics of emotional maturity‚ youthful inexperience‚ and kindness. From the opening of the novel‚ when Alice fell down the rabbit hole‚ her motivation of curiosity
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this novel being Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland‚ provides an episodic of short stories of her adventures instead of just one long adventure throughout the novel. This holds up throughout the novel as each chapter is usually a different adventure or “story”. The title can also foreshadow that the novel will not take place in normal reality and in fact in “Wonderland” although Alice never does find out the true name of the world she dreamt of. The word “Wonderland” only appears until the last two pages
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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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novel‚ Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland‚ has been interpreted as an absurd and nonsense book for children. It is a nonsense book‚ but it is also so much more. Carroll has intertwined nonsense and logic therefore creating sense with nonsense. By looking past the absurdities of this book you find new meaning. You find that the novel is full of references and parallel aspects of the Victorian era in topics of etiquette‚ education and prejudice. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is also a tribute to a child’s
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