Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is filled with incredible creatures and mind-boggling events that capture and engross a reader. Similarly to how they capture Alice in the story. Though there is one character who stands out in the sense that he is both bizarre in our world and his own, yet, he makes the most sense out of any of character and fits within both worlds, effectively linking them and perhaps teaching Alice in a way that makes more sense than other characters from whom she has sought guidance. This character is the Cheshire cat. This essay will explore the ideas surrounding this interesting being through how he interacts with the main character, how he uses language, how the reader understands his species to fit into the world that he lives in, and how his speech and behavior is influential in guiding and teaching Alice, in comparison to a character such as the Duchess or those in the mad tea-party. Through this we will be able to see how the one cat in Wonderland is able to provide a true aspect of guidance in a world that makes little to no sense and how he is able to do this. The first appearance of the Cheshire cat is in the sixth chapter of Alice’s Adventures …show more content…
The way in which they talk to each other isn’t as she talked to other Wonderland characters such as the Duchess and later on the characters of the tea party. The Cheshire cat allows Alice to ask her questions such as which direction she should go and what types of people may live in these directions. It is the way in which the Cheshire cat responds to these questions that makes this encounter truly unique. He does not shoot her questions down by telling her she is unintelligent for not knowing the answers in the first place, rather he answers them for her. This happens throughout the entire conversation such as when she asks him what kind of people live in each direction. She
One character which stands out the most is the mad hatter. She approaches the mad hatter during his tea party. Almost immediately it becomes clear to her that he, along with his companions (the Dormouse and the March Hare), are insane. Because of this, she begins to lose her patience and when Alice is finally asked a question about her opinion, she says, “‘Really, now you ask me, [...] I don’t think-.’”
She sees things that she would never think were possible, for example: she talks to animals, and they talk back; she drank a potion that made her shrink, and she was considered the historical hero of Wonderland. Therefore, she keeps denying that she is the “real Alice” that Wonderland had always waited for. Alice is insecure and feels like she is not capable of accomplishing the tasks and duties she is expected to. Alice meets a man called Mad Hatter and while she has tea with him he teaches her about the Red Queen and her plans of devastating Wonderland. He tells Alice to kill the monster, the Jabberwocky and protect Wonderland from the evil Red Queen.
Alice in Wonderland Societal Reading Victorian society demanded a specific role of civilians with strict expectations they always adhere to. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, more commonly recognised by his pen name, Lewis Carroll, is one author who questioned these expectations through the use of satire within his text Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Satirizing the rule and conventions of Victorian society is one manner in which Carroll subverts the nature of this time period by drawing specific attention to the worst aspects and proving how ridiculous they truly are.
In the Victorian age, children’s condition was a problem. treated as miniature adults, they were often required to work, were severely chastised, or were ignored. Exactly in that period Charles Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carrol wrote “Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland”, a novel that tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world. It is first of all a children’s book as it has a child protagonist; however it appeals to adult readers with its advanced logical reasoning, witty puns and trenchant satire of Victorian society. So we can consider it as a drastic reaction against the impassive didacticism of British upbringing.
Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland is story involved around a young seven year old girl named Alice. She is a girl with a strong and powerful imagination that allows her to believe whatever she pleases. After falling down a rabbit hole, Alice needs to change her body size to incredibly miniature in order to enter Wonderland. She ends up changing from strangely enormous and finally reaching the right height.
Alice in Wonderland Name of Course Moderator Name of Organization An Essay Name of Student Date of Submission Word Count: 875 Introduction The story of Alice in Wonderland is about Alice wandering though the Wonderland experiencing different types of encounters which are puzzling to her. In chapter 2, the biggest puzzle that Alice encounters is her own childhood identity. There are many different types of puzzles that Alice encounter some are the dream puzzles and some are the puzzles that basically make very little sense however the puzzle that will be discussed in this essay is the puzzle about Alice’s childhood which makes her a curious child (Chapter 1, Karlsson,2011)
“This latter was a remarkably large and beautiful animal, entirely black, and sagacious to an astonishing degree”, the passage referring to a black cat, symbolises evil and impending bad luck for the narrator. Moreover, the black cat represents the narrator’s doppelganger and alternate identity. A doppelganger’s role in a gothic text is usually to haunt and threaten the rational psyche of the victim to whom they have become attached. This is exactly what happens as outlined, “For months I could not rid myself of the phantasm of the cat”. Consequently, the narrator’s downfall is once again hinted.
Alice’s reaction to seeing a rabbit in a waistcoat in the book is described as this “Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it” (Carroll, FIND THE PAGE NUMBER). Alice’s
To draw further scrutiny to Victorian conventions, Carroll incorporates several languages features and play. Employing the use of the useless educational system in Victorian society, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland depicts several moments within its tale where Alice attempts to conduct herself by reciting facts she learned in school to try and maintain a sense of her life prior to falling down the rabbit hole into the world of Wonderland. The first evidence of this occurring features in the first chapter succeeding her tumble. She begins to wonder how far she has fallen and attempts calculating the exact distance away from the centre of the Earth she is; “let me see: that would be four thousand miles down, I think […] but then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude I’ve got to?”
THEME OF ISOLATION AND SEARCH FOR SELF IDENTITY The main plan of the story Alice in Wonderland is that the seek for self-identity and for one 's purpose within the world. We know, from the start of the story, that there 's a niche between Alice and her sister in terms archaic and interests. We are able to infer from the story that Alice has no peers, which she is in a very pre-adolescent stage with a special intuition that separates her from the others. Concisely, Alice in Wonderland is that the symbolic journey of a fille through a world that she is commencing to analyze and see otherwise.
The Life and Secrets of Lewis Carroll Lewis Carroll is widely known as the author of Alice in Wonderland, but actually had many different hobbies and careers. Throughout his life, he was a lecturer, photographer, and author of pamphlets, essays, poems, and books. Carroll was well-known in all of his work for many different reasons, including his talent. He wasn’t always known as the most normal person in his time, some may have look at him as a pedophile, but many enjoyed his works despite his potentially sketchy personal life. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was born to Charles and Francis Dodgson in Daresbury, England on 27 January 1832.
Carroll really seemed to enjoy his child-friends’ company despite their huge age gap. Moreover, Carroll was known as someone who suffered from Insomnia. Consequently, he spent his time at night to read and write lots of humorous letters to his child-friends. The passion and love of writing amusing letters somehow inspired him to include nonsensical poems called Jabberwocky into his beloved Alice’s stories: Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland. The poem, Jabberwocky, contained plentiful of gibberish words that Alice and readers were left to see the poem as a tale of something strange and bewildering.
Alice in Wonderland is a whimsical story originally written by Lewis Carroll in 1865 as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Adapted by Peter Hinton, the Shaw Festival has taken a beautifully bizarre story and put it on the stage. The play boasts a sprawling professional cast and a large crew as well, using lighting, costumes, and other production elements such as music by Allen Cole to enhance the production and add to Alice’s captivating and charming story. The production was presented at the Festival Theatre in Niagara-On-the-Lake.
Alice’s journey in Wonderland represents a child’s struggle to live in the confusing world of adults. To begin to understand the adult world, Alice must overcome the open-mindedness that is a common characteristic for children. She flaunts her limited information base with anyone who will listen and becomes increasingly obsessed with the importance of good manners as she deals with the rude creatures of Wonderland. She also maintains a superior attitude