Alice, the main character of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, has been showing a passive figure from the very beginning. However, at critical times she responds actively to her situations which turn out to be smart. When Alice found a cake under the table, she fully analyzed the changes it would possibly bring about before deciding whether to eat it or not. In another case, Alice grew too big and was stuck in White Rabbit’s house. If she did not think out a resolution, she was going to be burnt. Being calm, Alice noticed some little cakes and reasoned quickly: “it’s sure to make some change in my size; and , as it can’t possibly make me larger, it must make me smaller, I suppose (Carroll, 年份, p. 45)”. As a result, she ate the cakes, began
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)
The title of the book “Still Alice” is ironic because while her body is still Alice, she loses her personality and passions. In essence,
The general form that the ranges take is; from the west, a series of low-angled sandstone ridges running roughly north-south. The eastern sides of the ridges, where the sedimentary layers have faulted, are steep and spectacular, beyond the vertical in places - notably at Hollow Mountain near Dadswells Bridge at the northern end of the ranges. The most popular walking area for day trippers is the Wonderland area near Halls Gap. In summer the ranges can get very hot and dry. Winter and spring are the best times for walking.
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.
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
Nevertheless, as if by instinct, Alice the unripe explorer of her budding
Alice’s encounters with the other characters in Wonderland push her to ponder about her own identity. For example in the Chapter II, after having experienced dramatic transformations in size by eating and drinking, she meets the White Rabbit in the hall. She asks herself, “I wonder if I’ve been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different.
Waking up in a beautiful ocean front hotel room with the sun shining through is my idea of wonderland. Opening the balcony and automatically smelling the salty ocean is one of the many amazing parts. Wonderland has beautiful beaches, wonderful food, and unforgettable memories. The sound of waves crashing on the shore fills the air.
Alice soon insists that she is not the “correct Alice,” due to her not wanting to slay a dragon. Because of this, Alice, along with several citizens of Wonderland, begin to
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
Rather than helping her, the Caterpillar breaks Alice comfort zone and makes her question her own identity by asking,” Who are you?” (Carrol 49). This reveals that Alice is not even sure or know herself, she is also easily influenced by others and can be guided by men. During the tea party, Alice was constantly being offended by all the rude comments she receives from the three host and guests. This unenjoyable occasion makes Alice angry and leads her to leave the party.
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?”
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
In this tale, Alice follows a talking White Rabbit, down the well with the help of pool of tears, and into a garden wherever she encounters a Mad Hatter’s party, a game of croquet compete with living things, and an endeavor of the Knave of Hearts. Alice may be a kid getting into a world of adults ranging from the neurotic White Rabbit, to the meddling Duchess and psychopathological Queen of Hearts. These mad, absurd creatures commit to order Alice concerning, but Alice manages to answer them back. Despite the insistence of the Lady that “Everything’s got an ethical, if solely you can realize it” (Carroll, 1993, p.89), Alice finds no ethical here in Wonderland, unless the thought that you just should learn to air your own to fight your own battle in an exceedingly hostile environment. Alice’s engagement within the varied episodes with such characters as the fictional character, the Caterpillar, the milliner and therefore the Queen cause her to question her own identity
Both Alice, from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and Jason Brody, from Ubisoft’s Far Cry 3, experience a form of mental shift during their adventures. The obstacles they face and the environment in which they are surrounded by have an effect on their identities and their perception of themselves. Their journeys are reflections of each other, as they experience similar events, characters, come across comparable events, and embark on their journey of the self. Everything about “wonderland” shapes them and has an influence on them. The protagonists are surrounded by illusions that challenge their perspective, which causes the loss of innocence, prompts self-discovery and the reveals the inner self.