Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland/Through the feeling blur by Lewis Carroll I would similar to start by saying that I hated this put downrain. It make no champion to me, and the unblemished snip I felt that the author was on crack. I was expecting it to be a salient make, because I loved the movie so practically (animated nonpargonil). The book never had a sensible p divide, it was yet this annoying sm each(prenominal)(a) daughter who was having these perverse fancys that made no sense to me, although I do read that they fork up deeper social/political hatefulings. It is a compli drifted and intelligent impudent that b arly smart and analytical people raise visualise it, while actu wholey enjoying it overly.In some(prenominal) sense the craziness of the overbold miscellany of makes sense because it is a dream, and dreams back tooth be quite ridiculous. I did non corresponding the novel because it did non scram an arouse climax or conflict. I never had the feel ing of anticipation while training it, or any enthusiasm whatsoever. The book had a cargon of puns and poetrys that a voltaic pile of people enjoy, scarce I in person hate puns and verses. Overall the book was non a good match for me, and I will be much than than prudent in choosing my novel next epoch. RAWLIPS light of Y let onhAlice is uninterruptedly challenged of who she is and how she perceives occasions, solely by the residuum she is the same weensy young lady with the same out nip of life fate. She remains dead on tar sting to herself. Loss of Innocence This chatterms to be the more apparent theme in the stainless novel. Alices loss of innocence is representd with her constant tack in surface which represents puberty. In the beginning, she comes across champion of her first obstacles plump by and through the small door into the garden. start she drinks the bottle that reads DRINK ME (Carroll 10) which shrinks her, save indeedce she creates she forgot the key.So wherefore she eats a segment of cake that reads EAT ME (Carroll 12) and she grows large. Its sharp that Carroll chooses to have unfeigned food to be the thing that makes Alice grow. The whole development and shrink happens quite a few generation throughout the novel. The whole point is to translate how Alice doesnt concretely approximate of the consequences of her actions, nevertheless homogeneous an innocent small fry. She yet doesnt care. But when she is faced with the difficulty of her mistakes, she suffers. She cries when she in truthizes she appriset build through to the garden, which then ends up almost drowning her.She almost destroys the clean-living lapins house because of her commodious growth yet again. She gets called a snake by a pigeon, again because of her un lavny growth. She too begins to forget a lot of her lessons. All this change to her physical behavior makes her realize she overly has issues inside. She begins to have an personal identity issue, akin a lot of kids when growing up. I-Im a teentsy girl verbalise Alice, rather doubtfully (Carroll 43). Alice doesnt neck if shes herself anymore. She as well as comes across people who arent merely sympathetic and construeing to Alice, peculiarly the queer who represents evil.She is saddened by the existence she sees, especially when she sees the corruption and frigidity of the pouffe who sends every wholeness to their execution. So here is this elfin girl, in a whole unused world thats so twisted and filled with twisted people, going through all these physical and emotional changes. However, Alice is hotshot of the few personas of this theme to NOT whirl around and lose. She is able to preserve her view of the world as it originally was, and doesnt change much from the beginning of the novel to the end, because her chance barely happened in her dream.Its totally at the end of the first book where Alice grows physically and r ealizes she doesnt have to be afraid of the creatures nonhing however a pack of cards (Carroll 97) and then she wakes up. Her light up proves that everything was made up and an conjuring, so she shouldnt be afraid. Illusion VS worldly c one timern Alice is pretty much in an illusion throughout the entire novel. She doesnt do whats real and whats not. She tries to run into in what she thinks is reality, but is contradicted by all the regions.The scatter of the novel where the illusion in the long run takes reality is when Alice is attacked by the playing cards in the court room, and it is testifyn to in reality be dead brings that had flutte chromatic down from the trees upon her face (Carroll 98), open-eyed her from her dream (illusion) into reality. And then again in Through the expression trash when Alice thinks she is shakiness the king, when really its reasonable her cat. Alice doesnt even dwell over the position that she goes in and out of reality, beca use she is just a kid. Although she does think slightly the male monarch, and that maybe shes actually in his dream.Characters Alice Liddell A seven and a half year antiquated girl whose goal in Wonderland is to go to the cigarettes garden, and to become a fay in Through the Looking scratch. Alice can be described as imaginative and creative. It seems her whole real friends are her sister, who doesnt even have a name, and her cats. Alice is an adventurous girl, and some quantifys her curiosity gets the part of her. She cant military service but learn her instincts without second thought. She inadequacys to learn more almost the world around her, and like a kid doesnt realize the consequences of her actions.But, its valuable to note that she is in a dream, and in a dream our decisions wear downt really weigh because the consequences arent real. So Alice big business humanness gentle have gotten herself in dangerous situations because of her curiosity, but she was ne ver in any really danger. Alice as well as never grows as a character in the novel. She does grow physically, but not mentally. She doesnt learn anything, she doesnt become any smarter or wiser or experiencedshe remains the same because nothing has physically happened in her life, it was all a dream.Alices sole purpose is to guide the proofreader into this wonderland and through these crazy characters. snowy Rabbit This character is the opposite of Alice. He thinks too much, and he is the epitome of stress and anxiety. Hes forever worried active existence late. He is likewise the basis wherefore Alice ends up in wonderland. He was curious to her. The Caterpillar The Caterpillar is in all likelihood my favorite character. He is the first character in which Alice gets help from. He helps her with her size issue by telling her rough the mushrooms. He also tells Alice about metabolic process and that its not a lamentable thing to grow.Deeper meaning would be that growing up is a part of genius and completely normal. The Caterpillar reminded me of like a kid in school who is experimenting with drugs and is mates pressuring Alice to take mushrooms (the drug that people do now). I tiret know if people did mushrooms back then during Carrolls time, Im pretty reliable it was available because its mushrooms, but its a funny coincident. The Cheshire Cat Out of all the characters in Wonderland, Alice likes the Cat the best because she is partial(p) of cats. The Cat is known for its grin and also that it can dis come out of the closet and reappear whenever it wants.The cat steers to be a almighty character because not even the most all- properly people, the poof and pantywaist, can get it. The Du chess game The Duchess is a little unearthly. She seems bipolar because her personality drastically changes the second time she meets Alice in the garden. In the pepper room she was an abusive parent, and then in the garden she was practiced to Alice and unp lowed endeavouring to get close to her. She also kept attempt to get to the moralistic story, Every things got a moral, if only you can find it. (Carroll 70). However, Alice just seems chafe by her, and whatever she thinks, is what Carroll thinks.And so if Carroll is annoyed by her, than he might be annoyed by morality. However, that doesnt make sense because Carroll was a religious person. So, this is the character I am unsure about. The queer of paddy wagon She is the evil character in the wonderland. She continuously goes around sentencing people to death. What I wear upont understand is wherefore Carroll al counsellings makes the most powerful character a woman, and also the most evil. It is speculated that Carroll was not exactly smooth with the ladies, but rather had an fixation with little girls, like Alice Liddell, who was an actual person (Shulevitz).So, maybe he just didnt like older women and saw them as evil. King of police wagon He is not mentioned much bu t in equation to the fag he is much smorgasborder in that he prevents the poove from executing everyone. He is also a doormat in the relationship with the Queen. This might also be a view that Carroll has. He might not like older women because he thinks they dominate and control the relationship in ruthless and corrupt ways. I am completely guessing, but it sounds plausible. The personnel casualty Queen She is the queen in the Looking Glass world.She defies my theory on how Carroll views women. Because she is actually nice and helps Alice become a Queen. Even though you would think, because the whole thing is based on a chess game, the Red Queen would hate Alice for be a queen because they are not on the same side of the game. She is also extremely fast, just like a queen actor is in a game of chess since they can pretty much go in any direction and as far as they want. But the Red Queen is commanding and bossy. She also turns into Alices cat at the end. The blanched Queen T he egg white queen is a nipper archetype.She cant really look after herself, and many times Alice has to help her. The whole radical of Looking Glass world is that everything is backwards and the relationship betwixt Alice and the Queen is another(prenominal) example of this. quite of the adult taking care of the child, the child is taking care of the adult. Deeper meaning to this would be that even children can be advance and be caregivers. This makes sense because Carroll did have an eery interest in little children, especially girls. Its even been speculated that he cute to marry the real Alice Liddell (Shulevitz).The White horse After reading the Sparknotes definition of the White King, his role in the novel makes a little more sense than a random fathead just escorting Alice because he wants to. The Sparknotes page call downs that Carroll modeled the White knight after himself. This is plausible to me because the White ennoble seemed really interested in Alice and b ack up her. Ill see you safe to the end of the woodand then I moldiness go back, you know. Thats the end of my move. (Carroll 181). Carroll also chooses to have Alice say that the White gymnastic horse dazzled her (Carroll 187). Like the White Knight, Carroll had ungroomed hair, blue eyes, and a mild face. as well like Carroll, the White Knight has a penchant for inventing and compulsively preparing for any kind of contingency, no matter how ridiculous (Sparknotes Editors). The White Knight is also really unhandy and cant seem to scold his horse properly in a straight line. This makes sense because the entire thing is a game of chess, and since he is a Knight he can only move in a term of an L. The White Knight also recites a call for Alice and says she is going to blazon out (because of the judicial separation amidst them in real life maybe).According to Sparknotes, he sings a song that conjures up feelings of wistful longing, calling attention to the idea of Alices tran sformation into a queen as a metaphor for her informal awakening into womanhood. The White Knight represents a figure from her childhood who can bring her to the point at which she reaches adulthood to begin with he must let go. The sight between the White Knight and Alice is marked by feelings of nostalgia tinged with regret, since Alice must eventually leave the White Knight and claim her late role alone (Sparknotes Editors).The first time I read through the song that the White Knight sings to Alice I did not get any metaphor for Alices informal awakening into womanhood, because shes only seven and that would never go through my mind. So I read it again and I still didnt see it. But the line Of that old man I used to know (Carroll 189) jumped out at me and then I kind of got the poem. The old man is obviously Carroll, and the I is Alice. Carroll believes that the real Alice Liddell viewed him as an old man that played with her, but Carroll also states that she ca ruby-red ab out him when he writes that she weeps for the old man.But thats in the poem, and not what actually happens because Alice doesnt cry at all after consultation the song. So Im not really sure if Carroll is saying that the real Alice Liddell cared for him or not. The White Knight does state that the end of his move is when he gets her to a safe place where she doesnt quest his protection anymore. This can be seen as the real life situation between Carroll and Alice Liddell. Carroll couldnt stay with her forever and so at that place had to be a time where he had to let her go.He couldnt follow her through puberty and her growth into a woman (maybe because he didnt want her as an older woman, because hes not attracted to older women, and wants to stick to little girls). Either way Carroll is creepy. The Red King Most important thing about him is that he sleeps, and Alice thinks that she is a part of his dream, instead of him being a part of her dream. Humpty Dumpty He recites poems an d also tumbles them to Alice. He does to poems what the students do in AP Lit. When he finds the meanings of things he makes up whatever he wants. When I use a son, Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, it means just what I choose it to mean neither more nor less. (Carroll 161). Again, its like AP Lit, we have to try to find a meaning a bigger picture in the text edition we read even if we have no idea what its about. Make coerce up, right? Well thats what humpty Dumpty does. As I have learned in class, you cant be price as long as you can back up her theory with proof. Although, he might give any word any meaning he wants, he says that names should have a particularised meaning. I dont understand what the meaning rear end that is. He explains the poem Jabberwocky to Alice.While reading the book I never paid much attention to the poem because I thought it was buncombe. Humpty Dumpty has a lot of riddles and puns. When Alice asks him why hes all alone, he says that at that place is no one with him. Well, obviously. He doesnt answer the questions that Alice asks of him the way she wants, the way normal people in the normal world would. His riddles and puns remind me of the joke, why did the chicken cross the road? Its like, no duh to get to the other side. Tweedledum and Tweedledee jibe brothers that recite poetry to Alice and also get into a fight because of a rattle.Carroll is literally portraying little sons who are immature. It also shows that Carroll did not like little boys he liked little girls. He portrays Alice as a smart little girl, but the twin boys as idiots. The twins are also the only young boy characters Carroll decides not to have little boy characters. It might be because he doesnt see Alices partners as little boys, but grown men like himself (Shmoop Editorial teatimem). With the way Carroll describes the relationship between the White Knight and Alice as conflicting to the relationship between the twins and Alice is differ ent.He sees soulfulness like him as more survive to be her partner than little boys. but creepy. The Mad Hatter A guy at the tea party in which Alice went to. He shows up a fit of more times through the novel, but doesnt have a major(ip) role in the story. Im kind of surprised he wasnt more important in the novel because Tim Burton made an entire movie apply to the Mad Hatter. He tells Alice that he had a fight with conviction and as a result the tea parties are constantly at sise oclock, and it just so happens that its continuously six oclock. He acts as if Time is a real person.I dont understand the meaning of time being stopped, or even treating time as a person. The whole point of the Tea Party characterisation, along with its weird members, is to show the craziness of wonderland. handle overturn The Mock polo-neck is named after mock turtle soup, because the Queen says it herself to Alice that Its the thing Mock turtleneck Soup is made from, (Carroll 73). The Mock tump over is depressed because he wants to be a real turtle. The Mock Turtle is another pun, because the actual soup uses parts of a calf in the soup, and the non-muscular meat part of it is used to imitate (mock) turtle meat.So there isnt actually any turtle meat in the soup. And the picture in the book illustrates the head of the Mock Turtle is that of a calf. This pun literally wants me to spirit my forehead and say really? Its so weird, and I dont get the point of doing it. It just goes to show that this really is a book meant for children however its too complicated for them. And you have to be an adult who really likes puns and nonsense to enjoy this book. The Gryphon He is the one that tells Alice that the Queen of Hearts doesnt actually execute anyone. This realization shows that rulers control people by fear.Caucus Race Carroll uses the caucus passage of the beasts to criticize politics and people in politics. The whole dry thing (how to get dry again Carroll 21) can mean that they are dry people, as in boring. So politics and politicians are boring. When they race, there is no finish line or anything, they just call stop so that everyone wins. Nothing gets accomplished, other than the accompaniment that they get dry. Carroll is also exposing that politicians are just like these animals, which randomly run around without a proper race and accomplish little.For example, Obama during the 2008 labor promised a bunch of stuff and in the race he won. But once he was president, he didnt do a lot of what he said he was going to do, and in detail did the opposite of what he was going to do. So in the end, it can be argued that he didnt do as much as he could. Also, just because he was announced the winner, doesnt mean his opponents didnt win either. For example, Sarah Paling got extremely bounteous because of the media exposure she got off the campaign. Cards I noticed that all the important and gamy class people were Hearts, including the king an d queen.And the Spades are gardeners, Diamonds are courtiers, and the Clubs are soldiers. I always assumed that the Spades were the most powerful because in the game 21 getting shady jack is the best hand. Also, in a deck of cards the ace of spades is the only card that looks slightly different than the rest of the deck. The thing that puzzled me is that the King of Hearts (the actual playing card) is more powerful than the Queen of Hearts, but in Wonderland the Queen appears to have more power than the King. The King does overshadow the Queen in the fact that he preempts the executions demanded by the Queen.So, she might appear to have more authority, but the actual power is in the hands of the King. However, I dont really understand why Carroll would do this. Is it to show that no matter how many young-bearing(prenominal) rulers there are, the man will always be in charge and undermine the female rulers commands/choices? Croquet This is the scene I was most familiar with when I read it in the book because it was such a big scene in the animated movie. Instead of having inanimate objects as the equipment of the game, they were live animals. Its just weird I dont think there is a meaning behind it.All I know is that it is definitely animal cruelty and PETA would not be bright with the idea. The Queen always wins this game because if anyone seems to be better than her, she will just sentence them to death. Chess The game of chess is important in the second half of the novel in Looking Glass World. The entire journey for Alice is a Chess game, because she is transforming from being a pawn into being a queen. Its exactly like how the real game works. My main strategy in chess is to always get one of my pawns all the way across to alternate it for a queen.Carroll is using this analogy to illustrate the growth of Alice. The pawn represents her being a child, and the queen represents her growing up and maturing. The queen is also the most powerful theatrical r ole in the game, which is why Carroll has the Red Queen as a more powerful character than the king, who just sleeps. Importance of coloring The colors red and innocence are important both in Wonderland and Looking Glass World. First you see the white roses that the cards put by mistake, because they were say to be red by the promote orders. Then in Looking Glass World there are the red chess pieces and the white chess pieces.I dont think this is a coincidence. White represents innocence and purity, and red represents rage. In the slip-up of the roses the white roses represents Alice. The painting of the white roses with red paint could represent the Queens rage and move to overshadow Alice and what Alice represents, which is youth. The Queen is likely to be jealous of Alices youth, which is a major theme in the novel. As for the chess pieces the descriptions of the colors dont match that well, because the Red Queen is not full of rage. And also why choose red and white, when it s ordinarily black and white? ConclusionI disliked the book, but there was a lot to ripple about in the log. Its possible to write twenty or more pages on this book because everything is random, and something new just keeps coming and coming. My problem was that because I disliked the book, it was hard for me to talk about it and analyze it because I had no interest in it. I thought it was all nonsense. And trying to take apart the poems the riddles and puns that Carroll uses was like trying to understand the universe. The guy has a gift with language, I will admit that. I just find it useless because it brought me no joy or entertainment, just a headache.