Discussions on Aice in wonderland - Chapter 4: The Rabbit Sends In A Little Bill.
Chapter 4: The Rabbit Sends In A Little Bill In Chapter 4, we're introduced to and are more aware of the White Rabbit. The White Rabbit is capitalized to show significance of the White Rabbit's character, as all the other characters. 'White Rabbit'. As he rushes in, looking for his gloves, he cries out anxiously "The Duchess! The Duchess!" This shows frustration, fear and anxiety from the White Rabbit. This shows that 'The Duchess' has high authority, and is someone who the others fear. We can also point this out from her name. A duchess usually has high status and power. Her name is also capitalized. The White Rabbit continues with "Oh my dear paws! Oh my fur and whiskers! She'll get me executed as sure as ferrets are ferrets!" This carries on the sense of anxiety and fear as to let the reader know that the Duchess is danger. This sentence, which is full of exclamation to show the anxiety also includes a simile, "as sure as ferrets are ferrets". He finishes off his hurried sentence with asking a rhetorical question: 'Where can I have dropped them, I wonder?" He asks himself this, and from the first chapter, we can see that he does talk to himself quite a bit when he is nervous or anxious. This reminds me of an aged person. There is emphasis on the 'can'. There's also inverted word order. This shows us, that the book was written in Victorian times. Lewis Carroll uses a
Vinegar Tom - Use of Language. Caryl Churchill.
Vinegar Tom Use of Language Caryl Churchill uses different types of language throughout the play to give depth to and display the emotions of the characters in Vinegar Tom. This can be seen from the offset of the play in which Alice talks to the man passing through the village. The Man The man's opening line is; 'am I the devil?' asked to Alice. She does not seem to understand and so he continues, 'I'm the devil. Man in black they say,' the man would seem to lack confidence and this is something Churchill builds on in the next few lines; 'Have I not got great burning eyes then?' 'Is my body not rough and hairy?' 'Didn't it hurt you? Are you saying it didn't hurt you?' He clearly has a low self esteem and is self conscious of in the way he looks and the size of his penis. These are all things he is worried by but the root of all his fears are revealed after these initial worries. The line 'So you think that was no sin we did?' reveals religion to the conversation. The man is confused by religion. People at the time were not sure weather to be Protestant or Catholic. He talks of how one of his family was burnt for being Catholic so they became Protestant and one burnt for that to. He is afraid of his sins. That is why he was asking if he was the devil at the beginning, because he was afraid that the sin they had committed was so bad that he was becoming the devil or that
Flight - creative writitng.
John McGrath Assignment 8: 'Flight' There he was alone in the corner of the garden leaning backwards on his deckchair. The sun is shining and the weather is sweet. The type of weather he was looking forward to for his pigeons. They hated the cold. He never seemed the same without his favourite granddaughter, like there was something missing. After all he had only himself and his memories to keep him company. Nobody bothered about him anymore, only his daughter, who to be honest he did not appreciate. He found her attitude towards him annoying and condescending. She treats him like a child. Nobody enjoys being treated like a child, being bossed around all the time, and being patronised. He was contemplating on the past. He had not seen his granddaughter since the day she left home and moved on with her life. She is married now, nobody was there to see the big day, just her and Steven. He began to think back to the day when he realised he had lost her forever... ...I can remember that day as if it was yesterday, the sense of the garden was warm and welcoming, the trees were bristling in the wind and the pigeons were fluttering in their dovecote. Everything was going fine. I was in the garden playing with my bird, admiring its plumage. I loved all of my birds. But this one was my favourite out of them all. It was a special bird to me, I had had it for over five years and I
Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandand What Was Found There.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and What Was Found There "'Curiouser and curiouser!'cried Alice" (Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 9). At the time she was speaking of the fact that her body seemed to be growing to immense proportions before her very eyes; however, she could instead have been speaking about the entire nature of Lewis Carroll's classic works Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There. At first glance, the novels seem easy enough to understand. They are simple children's stories filled with fantastical language and wonderful worlds. They follow the basic genre of nearly all children's work, they are written in simple and clear language, feature a young hero and an amazing, unbelievable cast of characters, are set in places of mystery and illusion, and seem far too nonsensical and unusual for adults to enjoy. Even their author, Lewis Carroll, believed them to be children's stories. Yet Carroll and generations of parents and children have been wrong. While these stories may seem typical children's fare, they are distinctly different. Their symbolism, content, and message make the Alice books uniquely intended for adults. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was born in 1832 in Victorian England. He was a mathematics professor, but he had a very peculiar dual identity. "Most of the time he was C. L. Dodgson, the shy,
The Son’s Veto and Survival
Carl Payne 10H Date: November 2000 Candidate Number: Centre Number: 63203 The Son's Veto and Survival Wide Reading Assignment The Son's Veto and Survival are set in vastly dissimilar times. The Son's Veto was published in the late nineteenth century (eighteen ninety-five) and the story Survival was first published in the mid twentieth century (nineteen fifty-six) but it is set a great deal in the future. The story Survival is a science fiction story. The author of the gripping short story Survival is John Wyndham and the author of the other story; The Son's Veto is Thomas Hardy. The two stories are very much stories of the authors times. Both stories, The Son's Veto and Survival were supremely challenging, The Son's Veto more so. They were complex due to the extensive range of vocabulary, and the language used. The sheer length of the two stories also enlarged the complexity of them. The principal character in The Son's Veto is Sophy, whom is a young woman that worked as a maid for Mister Twycott. People also contemplated Sophy as a woman with a story; 'She was generally believed to be a woman with a story - an innocent one, but a story of some sort or another'. The chief character in the story Survival is Alice. In The
Alice In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll can be used in school psychology courses to teach adolescent development.
"Alice In Wonderland can be used to give interesting examples of many of the basic concepts of adolescent psychology" (Lough 305). The article titled Alice In Wonderland and Cognitive Development: Teaching with Examples, by G. J. Lough, describes, with examples, the many ways that the book Alice In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll can be used in school psychology courses to teach adolescent development. Though Alice herself probably is not yet at the age considered adolescent, she goes through adventures that can be compared to what adolescents go through in real life. Lough first explains physical development and identity formation with the example of the Caterpillar and the mushrooms. The Caterpillar tells Alice how the mushrooms can control her size. This can be compared to mood swings in adolescents. At first, it is hard for Alice to regulate her size with the mushrooms, just as it is hard for adolescents to regulate their moods at times. "The feelings of being '10 miles high' one day and 'about 2 feet tall' the next, are an uncomfortable, but normal, phenomena" (Lough 306) experienced by adolescents. The mushrooms can also represent the growth spurt, which may cause rapid change in size and weight. In adolescents, a drastic change in body image can lead to a drastic change in self-concept, which can lead to an identity crisis. For adolescents, everything is based on images,
a Month in the country
a Month in the country The Next day was Wednesday and I awoke very early. I could not stop thinking about what Alice was saying about the mural. She said the most intelligent and profound things. When talking about the mural she said " It looks like it came together like a jigsaw ". Only Alice could utter such simple words and yet it seemed so meaningful to me. I am in a dilemma as to what to do, my work here in Oxgodby has come to an end yet I do not want to leave. Half of me wants to tell Alice how I feel and run away with her into the night, but it is not to be. I could not understand why she even married Mr Keach, he is so different to her. She has imagination and flare and he has no idea about anything he is completely blind to art! I could make her happy, but I must stop thinking like this. After an hour of lying in the sun deciding what to do about leaving, I decided that I could not hide my feelings any longer. I had fallen for Alice just like the painter that fell from the scaffolding, with a bump! But the question is how I am going to tell Alice. Do I go to see her before I leave or write her a letter? That's, what I will do, I will write her a message telling her how I feel and asking her to come back to London with me. Darling Alice, For months now I have wanted to tell you how I feel about you. Everyday when you come to visit me at the church, your beautiful
Flight - describe Alice's thoughts throughout the story.
Bhaktipriya Nayan Kapadia Flight- imagine "Flight" is an interesting story, as it shows the relationship between a young girl and her Grandfather. The story creates tension about the way Alice's Grandfather reacts towards, her boyfriend and the thought about Alice getting married. My essay will describe Alice's thoughts throughout the story. I knew I was right to be worried. Mum had said that Grandad would come round but it doesn't look like it to me. I don't want to hurt Grandad, why does he have to react like this? Doesn't he know that he his upsetting me and himself? What is wrong with me having a relationship with Steven? I am eighteen! Iam not the same little, old Alice anymore, why can't he see that? I am not a child, why is he treating me like one? The problem is he still thinks I am a child. He can't see past 'little Alice', he just can't accept I am all grown up. Well, Mum has said it is okay so he is just gonna have to like it or lump it. He is the one who is messing it all up. I don't want to hurt him. Why does he keep interfering in my life? Oh, hurry up Steven. I need to see you, I want to get away from here, from Grandad. I want to be married, to be with Steven all the time, why is that such a problem for Grandad yet Mum is fine about it? Oh, great there he is, perhaps Steven can help me persuade Grandad. Perhaps Steven can talk to him, make
Original Writing - A Bad Day Gets Worse
A Bad Day gets Worse Mitch Ward English Coursework Right. Time to clean that dump of a room. I haven't been in there for ages now but I'm really not sure why. I wonder what new species of mould and fungi have developed in there. I don't want to think about that now, especially after last night. I had so much to drink and don't get me started on the drugs. Anyway, back to cleaning that room. I'm too scared to even open the door. Oh well. Here I go... OUCH! God that hurt. I wasn't expecting an ironing board to fall on me! I always wondered why things hurt more when you never knew it was going to happen. I think I've really hurt my leg. Maybe I should go to the doctors. Or maybe I won't. He'll know I was drinking so much and doing all of them drugs last night, especially with all of his high tech gadgets. I am a student, isn't that what we do, get drunk and stoned every night? Time to sort out the things I do need from the things I don't need in here. What's this? A hover? I really cannot remember buying this, let alone using it. Oh well if I haven't hovered yet, now isn't the time to start. This room is full of junk; it's full of antiques. There so old now they must be worth nothing. This room is just rubbish, upon rubbish, sprinkled with a fine layer of dust. Sounds a bit like a cake to me. Not very tasty though. Yeah Right. Not this. It can't be. It is as well. My old
Scene Analysis of Vinegar Tom.
Scene Analysis of Vinegar Tom Scene One We meet Alice and the Man (who only appears in this scene). However the audience wouldn't know or recognises her as Alice until she appears in Scene 3. Scene Two We meet Jack and Margery for the first time. There is one sign that things in this town aren't going that well. We can tell this because of the line: "Died last week. There's two or three cows died in the neighbourhood. " Scene Three In this scene we meet Joan Noakes who Margery and Jack spoke about in the previous scene. Joan Noakes is a poor widow and is Alice's Mother Scene Four In this scene Margery is attempting to make butter. Because the butter won't form she starts to sing a song. I presume she starts to sing cos she is quite superstitious. Joan arrives to asks Margery for yeast to make some loaves of bread and then if there some yeast left some beer, now because of this Margery replies no because as far as she's concerned Joan would just use it all to make beer and then she'd get drunk. Then because Margery won't help her, Joan damns the butter that Margery is making to hell. At the end of the scene Margery decides to use a horseshoe to place in the milk to make the butter come. Scene Five In this scene Alice and Susan (our first meeting) talk about Alice and the man's meeting. Susan Then goes on to talk about how she has had a miscarriage. This could