How Doth the Little Crocodile

on her side, to look through into the garden with one eye’ (17) This gives the reader more of a understanding about how large she has become, the imagery of Alice lying down but not being able to do anything else other than peep through the door is very vivid, even though it is such a short description. The omniscient narrator tries…

are made from the classic tale this integral element ebbs and flows. The choices made in how images were portrayed, whether music was included, and how certain characters were portrayed compiled to become driving forces in how each version of Alice in Wonderland became more or less whimsical. For every version of Alice in Wonderland, the imagery was carefully produced to convey very specific meanings to the consumers. While the editorial style cartooning that John Tenniel produced…

If the title alone does not make it clear, the original version tries to instill children with core values that promote industry and hard work. The first stanza states: How doth the busy little bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every open flower! (Watts) This didactic poems makes this message abundantly clear to the young reader and Watts certainly hopes that children will learn from it. However, Lewis Carroll twists the poem in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in…

Shaffer had a resounding hit with Equus in 1974, which ran for over 1,000 performances in London. But if the British liked it, the Americans were ecstatic over the story of a young man who is put into the hands of a psychiatrist after blinding six horses. In his splendid introduction to his collected plays (1982), the playwright tells of the true story that prompted the work and shows how he adapted it to achieve greater universality. In Manhattan in 1975 it won the Antoinette Perry Award (the…

extent of that relation. While time certainly does run out in one’s life span, it continues for the rest of the world, never ending, just like consumption. This idea branches off to the connection of consumption and death, but first, it lays out the idea that although time is valued in one’s lifespan, consumption has to do with much more than just life. Rather, consumption’s main relation is to time, and indirectly with life, and unlike life, consumption has no end (figuratively, and literally).…