Through the Looking-Glass

was a never ending tunnel. When she eventually got to the bottom Alice kept looking around and trying to figure out where she was. A curious girl, Alice drinks a bottle with mysterious liquid without even hesitating. As she went along on her journey she encountered many stops that appealed to her curiosity. After making it to land from an ocean of tears she cried Alice tried to figure out…

a rest by one of the many tumtum trees. Could he do it? Why did he choose to do this? So many things came to mind and he was unsure of his next moves. However, not to long, after loud screeches echoed through the forest. Without thought, he pulled out his sword and he stood fiercely, looking through a small gap of trees, to see the Jabberwocky stretching out its dark leathery wings. It hovered over the trees it ripped all the leaves off the trees, clearing the battle…

In both stories of Alice in Wonderland (1865) (2010) by Lewis Carroll and Tim Burton, Alice relies on imaginary characters as archetypes guides and helpmates to help better herself throughout her adventure in Wonderland. From beginning to end, Alice Kingsley fought her own battles, whether they were against herself, or against an external force. If it weren’t for the imaginative characters created by Carroll, found throughout Alice’s adventure, or the adventure itself, she would have been unable…

he fears it will lead to something worse. Haw: Always learns to adapt in time when he sees change can lead to something better. All four characters in the story search for Cheese in the maze. The “Maze” in the story represents where we spend time looking for what we want. It can be the organization we work in, the community we live in, or the relationships we have in your life. Cheese is the Metaphor. Cheese is what we…

and becoming mundane. In particular, I will break down certain parts from A Game of Chess portion to support this thinking. It starts with a woman sitting inside an expensive-looking room as noted of “a burnished throne”. This is a reference to Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, which references Cleopatra’s throne looking like a golden chair on the waves. This highlights the queen-like sense of the room the speaker is describing. It is repeatedly reminded that this woman is living luxuriously…

show and tell everyone about Jenius and what he could do. I can relate to this because I use to have a strange little pet who I taught to do things that I was so proud of. I use to have a pet grasshopper that I found before winter. I put him in a big glass box with flowers, dirt and water. Every day I would put fresh lettuce in his cage and try to get him to eat out of my hand. After so long I got him to eat out of my hand. He would sit in the cage and wait for me every day and I would hold a…

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…

teenage girl who goes through the regular day struggles in the life of a teenage girl. But once the war comes along, her father, Matt Bliss, decides that it is his duty to go into the war and serve the country. This may seem like a good thing to do in his perspective but for his family, it was one of the worst things that could have happened to them. Alice has a strong connection with her father so to have him leave in this time to something so dangerous affects her so much. But through this…

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,…

Alice is turning a non-sense world into reality. For this reason, when your imagination takes over the real and makes believe world. It is considered to be one of the best examples of literacy nonsense genre. Its narrative course and structure, characters and imagery have been enormously influential in both popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre. Alice is a sensible prepubescent girl from a wealthy English family who finds herself in a strange world ruled by…