Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

In this essay, I Intend to argue that Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland focuses on Alices progression through childhood into adolescence while The Phantom Tollbooth demonstrates the progression of Milo redeveloping his childlike sense of thinking. Alices progression from childhood into adolescence begins by demonstrating her small attention span by daydreaming . This is shown when her older sister reads to her a novel. The reader can conclude that Alice has fallen asleep and has begun dreaming…

moral and didactic writers, Lewis Carroll, who loved to observe children’s behavior, wrote books to further their imagination world where they actualize their instinct of curiosity and adventures. Particularly, in ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’, the author challenges the Victorian society with its…

Charles Dodgson was the real name of the author who wrote Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and the sequel Through the Looking Glass. For his writing he went under the pen name Lewis Carroll. Along with writing he was also an English logician, mathematician, and photographer. He had a lot of siblings; 7 girls and 4 boys were born to his parents. He was the third child born and their oldest son. He also went through a lot of illnesses, one left him deaf in one ear. He had a stutter, but Carroll…

behaviour. Author, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, more commonly known as Lewis Carroll, challenges the patriarchal gender roles in the Victorian Era by exchanging the typical attributes associated with males and females in his literary work of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Swapping gender roles is important, especially in the Victorian Era, as it serves as a means to pinpoint how extreme male-dominated or extreme female-dominated features are absurd, or almost…

the country and started her education in a small one-room school house where books and writing sources were very limited. Early on as a child Oates quickly developed a love for writing and literature. Her first inspiration was the book “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, a gift from her paternal grandmother. Much like the story that inspired her, Oates was a dedicated fan of fictional worlds in her writings. In high school, Oates continued writing and at fifteen wrote her first novel which was…

relationship with younger females (“Petal Pixel.”), he was an extraordinary author who opened the gates of imagination to everyone with his most famous books “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking Glass”. But in order to understand Lewis Carroll, we must comprehend him, his life, and his most important work “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”. Lewis Carroll was born on January 27,182, in a small village just outside of Daresbury, Cheshire, England. He was the eldest boy…

A big hole, talking animals and an adventure that may never end, helps a little girl find out who she truly is. While symbols are not always clear, through direct characterization, anthropomorphism, and real world connections, Lewis Carroll utilizes an exceptional understanding of the development of Alice’s identity in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Direct characterization helps to create a better understanding of symbols in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The Cheshire cat, establishes…

Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (2009) and Edward Lear’s The Owl and the Pussycat (1871) are works of literature that both use “nonsense” to convey a story. In what follows I will argue that nonsense is significant, especially in children’s literature, as it is a useful tool for education, and promotes individuality of thoughts. The use of nonsense in literature challenges rules and it allows for the brain to think outside of the restricted boundaries of teaching, which…

keys being tossed on the glass table in the doorway, or my sister’s bubbly laugh. It’s a name that I’ve grown up. Alice and her adventures. To analyze it, Alice is our lense throughout the novel. She trots the trails of wonderland, watching a baby become a big, played croquet with a flamig, and my favorite, puzzling over riddles at a chaotic tea party. These are her adventures. In all honesty, I believe the significance goes beyond the context of the book. This amazing classic was published…

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was written by Lewis Carroll in the year of 1865. The heroine of his story is a six-year-old girl named Alice Liddel. Alice enters the world of Wonderland after falling down a rabbit-hole on a sleepy afternoon. Subsequently, Alice changes during the course of the book in two significant ways: physically and psychologically. These changes were introduced in the beginning of her adventures and play substantial roles throughout the story. The first changes…