Alice 's Wonderland And Through The Looking Glass

In 1862, floating upon the river Isis, Charles Dodgson narrated for Alice Liddell and a few others in company his original tale of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Gliding along underneath the blue sky, Dodgson wove his words into one of the most classic children stories of all time. Thesis: Although Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland may have only begun as a children’s story, many adults have sought to discover the “true meaning” of the novel. Curiosity has led to years of searching and interpretation of the origins of Carroll’s novels, and the symbols inside, developing into theories ranging from practical to nearly impossible, eventually evolving into their own stories in the film industry.

An author frequently exemplifies different messages and conflict within a story or novel. More often or not, an author portrays certain types of literary devices to convey a message between the setting and characters. In Lewis Carroll’s novel, Alice in Wonderland, Alice’s curiosity and innocence as a child in the Victorian Era leads to her exploring another world called Wonderland. She is challenged to find the true meaning of exploring outside of an ordinary world which leads her to question her own identity. The depths of wonderland and many influences Alice stumbles across changes the dynamics of her inner self from a child to an adult. The white rabbit resembles her escape outside of reality into a new world that ultimately creates a

While his famous novel is more in depth, with much more expanding action, it is equivalent to his poem, Jabberwocky. To begin with, in Through the Looking- Glass, is more of a whimsical type of literature. While Jabberwocky, is primarily set to focus on the death of the vicious monster, Through the Looking-Glass, is focused on realizing the difference between dreams and reality. "Not you!" Tweedledee retorted contemptuously. "You'd be nowhere. Why, you're only a sort of thing in his dream” (Tweedledee, 168). Here we have Alice trying to figure out whether she is real or just a pure figure within someone’s dream. If she is within a dream, then she knows her actions are being controlled by dreamer. Just like in the poem, Carroll emphasizes on an idea, by adding it twice within a text. “There’s no use trying,” she said “one can’t believe impossible things” (White Queen, 177). This quote is ironic because in both the poem and novel, impossible things are occurring from side to side. Lewis Carroll is known for making the impossible seem possible. It was a nice touch adding this quote to the novel because this quote shows that sometimes it is okay to believe what the mind cannot comprehend. In both works of Lewis Carroll, it is highly encouraged to let the imagination run lose and believe in the impossible. In the novel we get Alice, who is a pure reflection

Many themes are explored when reading Lewis Carrol’s, Alice in Wonderland. Themes of childhood innocence, child abuse, dream, and others. Reading the story, it was quite clear to see one particular theme portrayed through out the book: child to adult progression. Alice in Wonderland is full of experiences that lead Alice to becoming more of herself and that help her grow up. It’s a story of trial, confusion, understanding, and success. And more confusion. Though others might argue that the story was distinctly made for children just to get joy out of funny words, and odd circumstances, the tale has obvious dynamics that confirm the fact of it being a coming of age story.

These emotional spaces in Lewis Carroll’s Through The Looking Glass and What Alice Found There can be seen through another lens as well. While Alice, the book’s heroine, metaphorically grows into adulthood as she moves her way across the fictional chessboard, the author remains static; Carroll watches wistfully as the emotional space between himself and

Alice in Wonderland by Charles L Dodgeson (Lewis Carrol) is a classic masterpiece and example of great literature. Many people know of this book as merely a child’s tale or a Disney movie. As both were adopted from the book, many of the ideas were not. I have my own feelings and opinions of this book. Remarkable use of words and an originally creative theme and plot structure are both used in this book. The author of this novel used many hidden meanings, symbolism, and ambiguous terms to greatly describe the actual nature of the story. Many people have different views as to the type of book it is and the novel’s actual meaning. Although this book inspires many people to laugh, it also inspires them think.

Lewis Carroll's use of puns and riddles in Alice in Wonderland help set the theme and tone. He uses word play in the book to show a world of warped reality and massive confusion. He uses such play on words to reveal the underlying theme of ‘growing up', but with such an unusual setting and ridiculous characters, there is need for some deep analyzing to show this theme. The book contains many examples of assonance and alliteration to add humor. Carroll also adds strange diction and extraordinary syntax to support the theme.

In analyzing Lewis Carroll’s works Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, studying the the illustrations is of as great importance as examining the text that they depict. From the first sentence of Wonderland, Carroll exhibits a concern for illustrations and their role regarding storytelling in writing, “‘what is the use of a book’, thought Alice, ‘without pictures,’” (Carroll 7). As Carroll seems to have intended, the words which comprise Wonderland and Looking-Glass are only a one facet in the reader’s interpretation of the two works. Equally important as the written text to the experience of Wonderland and Looking-Glass House is illustration, and by extension different artists’ interpretations of these fantastical worlds. Interpreting the Alice stories through illustration first was Carroll himself, further increasing the interest of the relation between image and text as well as the question of the importance of pictures to their stories. Evidently Carroll intended the text of Alice’s adventures to be accompanied with images for readers, even initially putting in the time and effort himself to ensure their illustration, demonstrating the great concern he had for the relationship between the text of a story and its visual depiction. However, for the first official publication of Wonderland, Carroll enlisted artist John Tenniel to create entirely new illustrations for the story. These new illustrations by Tenniel have become iconic

At the mention of the name Alice, one tends to usually think of the children’s stories by Lewis Carroll. Namely, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass are two classic works of children’s literature that for over a century have been read by children and adults alike. These two stories tell the tale of a young girl named Alice who finds herself in peculiar surroundings, where she encounters many different and unusual characters. Although Alice is at the centre of both stories, each tale is uniquely different in its purpose, characters and style.

Alice is running forward, or so she thinks; however, Alice is doing the exact opposite of that. Alice has a main objective in this novel; she must move eight squares in order to become a queen. In Lewis Carroll’s, Through the Looking-Glass, Carroll adds a certain pizazz that most people wonder where it comes from. How does he come up with certain characters? How does he think of something so different like the Jabberwocky poem? Many things contribute to Carroll’s writing: struggling with sleep deprivation, dealing with dual personalities, having an education, growing up with several siblings, and handling abnormal eating habits.

Literature has always been a source of escaping reality, even if only for an hour. Whether it is within the pages of a novel or the lines of a poem, reading is a way to travel outside the realm of everyday life and become a hero or villain, a lover or a monster. Their are books written about anything and everything, but one theme that intrigues young and old alike is a world completely different from one's own. When one flips everyday meaning upside down, one is left with nonsensical beings and twisted story lines. One very popular author who writes with this mindset is Lewis Carroll. He writes with the common theme of literary nonsense including elements such as neologism, repetition, and fantasy settings. In the novel Alice In Wonderland, Carroll's imagination helps readers escape reality even though his own views of reality seep into his story.

The Victorian Era was a time where not many ethical ideals and moral standards were sustained. Yet, it is also an Era in which modern society uses to make advancements in both humanity, and philosophy. Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland, was a novelist who wrote pass his time. He wrote further in the future of the "common" Victorian Era. The ideology he presents in Alice in Wonderland is conducive to an individual attempting to bring attention to the deteriorating mental health and humane conditions in Victorian-Era England. Alice is representative of a normal child in everyday-Victorian England. This child, Alice, has not been exposed to the likes of diversity, but instead solidarity. The type of solidarity that is all too prevalent throughout the Victorian Era, primarily in the upbringing of children during this time. Children in Victorian Era England were taught to be followers of the norms already established by adults, and to ask no questions. These types of parameters placed restraints on children growing-up during this time; not only physical restraints, but also mental restraints, such as their imaginations'. Carroll was no stranger to this ideal or the likes of this concept; In fact, he constructed Alice in The Wonderland with this in mind, to defy the imaginative 'norm' of Victorian-Era England. He created a character that dreamt of falling down a rabbit hole into another universe. This dream or imagination becomes so vivid in his novel that the

For example one character within the story that critics are unsure of his symbolism and origin is the Cheshire Cat. In the story the Cheshire Cat is a mysterious character. He appeared when he choose to and disappeared a moment later. He had an odd sense of a personality, but spoke to Alice using wise words and thoughts. “It is not 100% clear why Carroll named this character ‘Cheshire Cat’. “To grin like a Cheshire Cat” was a common phrase in Carroll’s day. Its origin is unknown, but it may have originated from a sign painter in Cheshire, who painted grinning lions on the sign-boards of inns in the area” (Analysis). Even though the Cheshire Cat seemed crazy or “mad” he did give Alice a dose of reality in Wonderland. He said things to her such as “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there” or “Every adventure requires a first step”. He had helped Alice realize that in order to find out who she is or where she must go she has to be brave and take the first step. The Chesire Cat relates to the idea of the child-adult conflict that Alice may be going through because he helps her understand that she has to move forward in order to find out where to go and if she is not sure what path to take in her life than she has endless possibilities. The Cheshire Cat was an important character that helped Alice come to her senses. Aside from the real life symbolism many of the characters possessed, Dodgson’s “Alice in Wonderland” series had a large impact on the music

“Dreams feel real while we’re in them. It’s only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange. -Inception” (50 Dream Quotes). Carroll writes Through the Looking Glass based off of the dream concept. This novel is strange compared to most because of the dream Alice has. In the beginning, Alice is playing with her kittens. As she drifts off to sleep, Alice goes through the mirror and enters Looking Glass World. While there, Alice joins a chess game as a pawn. She continues across the board and meets all sorts of characters who help Alice in her journey to become Queen. She meets the Red Queen, White Queen, Humpty Dumpty, and White Knight in different squares throughout the game. When she reaches the honor of Queen, Alice is

'Alice in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll seems a first a simple fairy tale, but in fact its meaning is a lot more profound. This novel criticizes the way children were brought up during the Victorian era. Carroll presents the readers with the complications these offspring must endure in order to develop their own personalities/egos, as they become adults. For Alice, Wonderland appears to be the perfect place to start this learning adventure. A way to understand her story is by compering it to the world as if being upside-down. Nothing in Wonderland seems to be they way it’s supposed to. The first lesson, Alice must learn in this peculiar journey through Wonderland is to achieve separation from the world around her and to stop identifying herself through others, in order to discover who she