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Sameera Abbas and Rubina Rahman’s article “Schema Disruption and Identity in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in the Wonderland” argues that our schemas both affect and are affected by the texts we read. Our schemas help us to analyze and make sense out of literature, and at the same time our schema can be called into question, completely disrupted, or, on a different note, be supported by the text. The article applies this concept to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by making the case that…

teaching her little pet guinea pig named Jenius how to do many tricks. She taught him how to come, sit, stay, play dead and balance a cookie on his nose. No one believed her when she told them of her smart guinea pig and at school he fainted because of a cat so they still thought she was lying. When she got home her dad didn't believe her to so she showed him and he was in awe at what the little guinea pig…

Throughout the three novels.. Alice and Wonderland , The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , & Heart of Darkness , each of the main characters that took place in all three novels discover the “real world” by entering the unreal/surreal world. All three novels take place during the Victorian era , The early Victorian era marked the arrival of a large middle-class society for the first time in the history of the Western world. The literature of the Victorian age entered a new period after the…

Age has always been an issue of mind over matter. Just as age is not limited by how one looks or feels, imagination does not either. It is often the case that age limits 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…

In Jan Svankmajer’s film Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland shows a surreal story of a girl whose put into her dreams. In the film, Alice attempts to find something to do. Her last hope is using her imagination. She was depressed with her life at the moment. Svankmajer was excellently brought Alice a very simple but creative mind in imagining a wonderland for herself as a way to escape to where she was. The wonderland first started with very simple and daily objects such as dishes, dolls, the house…

The tale is about two mice who vandalize a dollhouse. After finding the food on the dining room table made of plaster, they smash the dishes, throw the doll clothing out the window, tear the bolster, and carry off a number of articles to their mouse-hole. When the little girl who owns the dollhouse discovers the destruction, she positions a policeman doll outside the front door to ward off any future depredation. The tale's themes of rebellion, insurrection, and individualism reflect not only…

The book and the cartoon movie have some similarities when the story start Alice was listening to the story that her sister is telling her and that happens on the book too. Then she sees a White Rabbit running by her. It is wearing a waistcoat and takes a watch out of it. Alice gets very curios and follows his down his rabbit-hole. Alice did drink out of the bottle that says “drink me” and she gets really small she also eats out of the cake that was under the table that says “eat me” and she get…

In the essay, the movie being analyze is Zootopia, with the depiction of discussing race, ethnicity, gender, and social class. By talking about examples with the movie one can comparing it to events today one. In the movie “Zootopia”, a brave bunny name Judy Hopps is trying to become the first rabbit cop. When she first joins the unit she is given a lesser job than everyone else who is looking for missing animals. Judy then meets a shifty fox named Nick Wilde, who tricks her in a hustle. Judy,…

In My Neighbor Totoro, Mei and Satsuki Kusakabe explore the wild woods and let their imaginations run wild. Seeing magical creatures like a kind majestic beast, to a cat bus that has headlights as eyes seems too surreal. The movie takes you to a whole new world where you can find adventure through the eyes of two imaginative girls. Director, Hayao Miyazaki made this anime movie one of the best children’s movie I’ve ever seen. This movie had so many different morals behind it. The first moral I…

When most people think of Tim Burton, the first thing that comes to mind is something of creepiness, or with a grim undertone to it. This is a widespread perception when taking into consideration the sense of wicked otherworldliness built up in his films. Many different stylistic characteristics contribute to this feeling through the use of different cinematic techniques. One common idea throughout Burton’s films is the misfit. The main personality is always considered strange and different from…