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    to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Lewis Carroll tells a story about a little girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. “Well, I’d hardly finished the first verse, when the Queen jumped up and bawled out, ‘He’s murdering the time! off with his head!’” said the Mad Hatter. The Mad Hatter, the March Hare, and the Dormouse are all mad in the imaginary world in which time stands still of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.…

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    Alice resembles an archetypal hero because her journey to Wonderland challenged her knowledge, changed her perception of the society through the events she experienced and the creatures she met, and indirectly sacrificed something for others’ well-being. Alice is a young English noble whose curiosity brought her to a queer place called Wonderland. Alice, coming from a middle-class family, is an educated and well-mannered young lady, and she is proud of this. She is very adventurous and liked to…

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    Gray’s alliteration and simile determines the setting of where the man is situated, which the reader can conclude that the persona is adapting to a new environment, as he has been living on a train and is developing a new form of himself. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland highlights a discovery that takes place, which results in Alice to be shocked, as it was unexpected. The narrator publishes “…when suddenly, thump! thump! Down she came upon a heap of sticks and dry leaves, and the fall was…

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    in Guilford, United Kingdom. Some poems that Lewis wrote are Jabberwocky,The Hunting of the Snark, and The Walrus and the Carpenter. Some people that influenced Lewis Carroll are Alice Liddell and Hans Christian Andersen. Lewis wrote¨ Alice's Adventures in Wonderland¨ and ¨Through the Looking-Glass.¨ He went to school at Christ Church (Oxford) Rugby School, Richmond School, Yorkshire. At age 20 he received a studentship at Christ Church and was appointed a lecturer in mathematics. The eldest…

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    author of Frankenstein uses the serious and tragic tone of Homer and developed a character that is clouded by his ambition, and lack self-actualization. Whereas Lewis Carroll who sampled Homer’s work of humor and simplicity to spawn, Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland, which is presented through the…

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    Carroll’s book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has fascinated me since I was a little child. Now, as an (almost) grown-up, I keep discovering additional layers and ever fresh important messages, new insights, and wisdom hidden in it. My intent in this work is to shed some new light–also relying upon the foremost commentaries on the subject–on the significance of Alice’s encounter with the Caterpillar. Alice encounters the Caterpillar when she has already had certain experiences with Wonderland…

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    “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” (Oprah Winfrey) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. A young girl named Alice sits beside her sister on a bank river when all of a sudden she falls down a rabbit hole and lands into a fantasy world that is full of weird, wonderful people and animals. The Queen of Hearts and The Caterpillar was a member of this fantasy world. Both of them was influencing Alice the protagonist and other characters on bad…

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    Consumption: A Woven Theme Across Concepts The definition of “consumption,” according to Merriam Webster is “the act or process of using something up.” This concept is repeatedly mentioned and established in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, which have been established to share the hidden message of the life of a child and the life of an adult, respectively. In relation to the practical world, life can be seen as a total process of consumption, where the mere…

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    Alice’s journey in the second book is to go from being a pawn to that of a Queen. In this story Alice goes through a mirror to a place referred to as the Looking-Glass World. This realm has different laws of physics from Wonderland and it appears that it is entirely different place. Through the Looking-Glass is much more structured than Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in which Alice basically drifts aimlessly through a series of unconnected…

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    disillusionment with bourgeoisie hegemony, makes use of the view that Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is riddled with satirical attacks on the real world structure, and that it is not an uncommon opinion that the events within the book are disturbing and cruel, as opposed to childish and whimsical. There is detailed entrapment in a bewildering and absurd nightmare world, and the often distressed…

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