Throughout the novel, Carroll helps us to better understand the character of Alice. This young, Victorian girl who falls into a rabbit hole and doesn 't understand why she 's there, and how she 's supposed to get out of this topsy-turvy world. Carroll reveals the character of Alice by telling of her journey through the magical place called Wonderland. The first place she arrived at after falling down the rabbit hole, was a dark place, and the first thing she saw was a door (that later leads to the garden). She asks the rabbit what to do, but he just runs away, which causes her to figure things out on her on. After drinking the bottle labeled “drink me“ she begins changing physically into many shapes and sizes, so she becomes frightened, which leads to her crying a pool of tears. As stated by Alice “Dear, dear how queer everything is today; And yesterday things went on just as usual… [I]f I 'm not the same, the next question is, Who in the work am I ?”(24) Rackin says “She …show more content…
The next thing that betters characterizes Alice is the Garden. The Garden is a key feature in the novel, but the only way to understand is to practically picture yourself in Wonderland. Carroll uses the Garden as a way to lure Alice farther into Wonderland. She has to do lots of things to get there, like in chapter one, when Alice tasted the bottle not marked “poison“, which shrunk her to ten inches. ( Carroll 18 ) It 's like a symbol that affects Alice 's thinking process, and when everything comes together it represents the experience of desire, which she has to work to get. When finally making it to the Garden, she realized maybe she didn 't want to be there after all. The Queen was a very rude person, the Queen said “off with her head! Off with -“ and before the queen could finish Alice interrupted with “nonsense“. ( Carroll 93 ) Alice then figured out that this place wasn 't as magical as it seemed. Everything and everyone in the Garden made nonsense comments and did things that
She let herself stop believing for herself but also so her family is not known as the family with the mental girl. She also did it to make her mother happy. “No more. Erase it all. I will no longer be Odd Alice.
To which the mad hatter interrupts “‘Then you shouldn’t talk,’ said the Hatter. This piece of rudeness was more than Alice could bear: she got up in disgust, and walked off [...]’” The mood is tense at this point, because it is evident that she is losing her patience. In another occasion, while she was in a tight spot, she thinks “‘It was much pleasanter at home,[...] when one wasn’t always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered around by mice and rabbits. I almost wish I hadn’t gone down that rabbit-hole-and yet-and yet-it’s rather curious, you know, this sort of life!...’”(26)
Do you know what type of heroes there are? There are many definitions for a hero. They can be realistic or non-realistic. In “Tough Alice’ She is a fantasy character she is in the story “Alice In Wonderland” except in ‘Tough Alice” she has obstacles to handle like the Jabberwook. They are both similar but have some differences.
In Alice 's Adventures in Wonderland, the author Lewis Carroll describes a now infamous conversation between the protagonist Alice, and the Cheshire Cat. Although at first blush their conversation seems unremarkable –
Temptation and greed are significant elements in the three stories, as many of the characters’ actions are a result of bad decisions made due to these forces. In Alice in Wonderland, Alice’s food related temptations are what cause her change of size and her progression through the world of Wonderland. Alice is often not even hungry when confronted with items of food in the story, it is their presence that tempts her to eat them: “In the middle of the court was a table, with a large dish of tarts upon it: they looked so good, that it made Alice quite hungry to look at them” (96). It is her lack of restraint when it comes to her appetite that causes her change of size and her lack of power throughout much of the story. Gluttony is displayed for
Alice Walker uses imagery and diction throughout her short story to tell the reader the meaning of “The Flowers”. The meaning of innocence lost and people growing up being changed by the harshness of reality. The author is able to use the imagery to show the difference between innocence and the loss of it. The setting is also used to show this as well.
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.
It started with Alice not eating. We all thought she was going through her yearly stage where she would go out at eat sticks and stuff in the woods when the snow started to melt, and she was backed up. Then she started to lose weight. We all thought it was odd until she started eating again and everything seemed fine. A couple months later it all started over again.
But if I’m not the same, the next question is, Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle!”. It is however true that Alice has created these events and these characters in her dream world and they don’t necessarily symbolize her emotional condition. They can simply be figments of her imagination and constitute a natural response to her confusion about adulthood and growing up. The
She feels good in the secret garden with her new friends and interests so she is going to become a happy and pleasant girl. Part 2 „ It was the lock of the door which had been closed ten years and she put her hand in her pocket, drew out the key and found it fitted the keyhole” (page 92) The novel’s high point is when Mary finds the secret garden, with a lovely robin’s help. The secret garden is an unique place, that means the happiness and the meaning of life.
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?”
This can be observed after she fell through the rabbit hole and landed in the dark room. Alice states, “Dear, dear! How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I’ve changed in the night?
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland can be described as a work of fantasy and literary nonsense. The story follows seven-year-old Alice, as she falls down a rabbit hole and enters a strange and absurd world
As the Rabbit was all alone , he began to cry and the teardrop created a flower and out of the flower came a fairy. This part of the story can be seen as very confusing because of its surprise ending. The nursery magic fairy takes care of all the playthings the children have loved and turns them into real animals (Williams). It can be interpreted that the the Fairy is an allegory for new beginnings as she takes the Rabbit away and brings him into the forest that is described as “beautiful and the fronds of the bracken shone like frosted silver” (Williams). This attractive , fantasy fairy can be viewed as nurturing and motherly.