Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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    Wonderland is rules by nonsense creators leaving Alice’s normal behavior becomes inconsistent principals. Cheshire cat is scared by no one , maintaining his calm and grinning outside status. Being “mad” is determined by the behavior of others comparison to yourself. Being there is so many different versions of Alice Adventures in Wonderland. Its harder to understand the real one from the different versions. Going…

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    refers to with the word it. Similarly, when the Wonderland creatures and Alice find themselves needing to be dried off after swimming, they cannot understand why they do not become dry when one of them tells “the driest story they know.” Carroll’s satire of the English language not only offers his own opinion about the unavoidable miscommunications that are bound to happen as a result of the flawed language itself, but also makes the case that Wonderland and the Looking Glass land make more…

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    parodist. Some of the modern critics to Carroll’s work out of the realm of childhood interpretation. “Michael Hancher has also pointed out Tweedledum and Tweedledee 's strong resemblance to Tenniel 's drawings of John Bull.” The novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland illustrate for us today some of th ways that Carroll 's nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century readers responded to and resisted the Alice narratives ' influential ideologies of gender, class, and…

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    whimsy of Alice in Wonderland is an inextricable part of the story that Lewis Carroll concocted nearly a century and a half ago. However, as more adaptions 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…

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    imagination, but that is not the true. No one can blame themselves for wanting that sense of creativity to live within for as long as possible, which is exactly how Alice felt throughout her journey. In The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll uses references to his own past, Alice’s change in size, and imagery to show that people can keep elements of childhood, like imagination, forever. It is well known and quite obvious that childhood only lasts for a short amount of time before…

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    We’re all mad here in Wonderland Adolescence is an inevitable process for everyone, part of growing up is discovering who you really are, and who you want to be. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll, at first glance seems like nothing, but a childish fairy tale, but has undertones of mature themes. This story utilizes fictional themes, but still capture the morale of how difficult growing up can be. Alice is an ordinary girl who falls down the “rabbit hole” into a psychotic world of…

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    to avoid any confusion or unanswered questions that leaves the reader with words on paper rather than an imagined world. Two novels from the fantasy genre; Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland…

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    Have you ever read a book and then thought: "What does this even mean?" Well, the book, Alice' Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, brings up the same question. Did Carroll have a point he was trying to make, or did he write his story for pure entertainment? I believe that he wrote it for entertainment purposes. Though no one but Carroll actually knows the answer to this question. The reasons supporting my thesis are: the original story was told for the amusement of three little girls,…

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    as Lewis Carroll, spent his childhood fascinating his siblings. As he matured, he became an academic and a man of the Church. As an adult, he still spent time with children because he found comfort in their understanding. By looking at Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, one can see that Lewis Carroll included the themes of discovering one’s true identity and defining blurred lines between fantasy and reality because he was an individual whose personality allowed him to identify with the wit and…

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    Anthony Browne, the illustrator of the 1988 edition of the novel who proves the audience’s role in determining meaning and influence by claiming that, “People interpret books in a logical way as they do dreams. They want it to have meaning. Alice in Wonderland is not to be read as a logical book. There could be some hidden meanings in there, especially considering Carroll was a mathematician during his lifetime, whether he was aware of such meanings subconsciously or not.” Carroll wrote the book…

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