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,
How Does "Through The Looking Glass" Compare To The Usual Children's Stories Acceptable in The Victorian Era And How Lewis Carroll's Children's Novels May Have Influenced 20th Century Authors.
Julian Coxell 10H 10-2-03 How Does "Through The Looking Glass" Compare To The Usual Children's Stories Acceptable in The Victorian Era And How Lewis Carroll's Children's Novels May Have Influenced 20th Century Authors. "Through The Looking Glass was written by Lewis Carroll in 1872. The story is about a little girl called Alice, a character based on Alice Liddell, one of the daughters of the Dean of Christ Church, Oxford. The book is very different from other stories written at the time; Lewis Carroll takes his heroine, Alice, into a world of fantasy to be found behind her lounge mirror. Alice is made into a very independent little girl, making many of her own decisions and at times being quite rude. This would not have been how a child would have behaved in Victorian Society; they were seen and not heard! Once through the looking glass Alice finds herself in a world where everything is back to front: she has to walk towards the house to walk in the garden and events are felt before they happen: the White Queen puts a bandage on her finger, then screams with pain and then pricks her finger. All the animals and flowers in the book are given human characteristics and can talk. "she spoke again, in a timid voice-almost in a whisper. "And can all the flowers talk?" "As well as you can," said the Tiger-Lily. "And a great deal louder." She also meets nursery rhyme
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
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
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
Discussing the film 'Closer'.
The film Closer takes a in depth sight into destiny, relationships and falling in love. Although some critics may disagree with the film being a convention of a traditional love story and more of a drama, I disagree. I feel that the film Closer has opted for a conventional love story genre and has shown the vices of being in a relationship and being in love through a unconventional theme which may have caused controversy. Closer is a film in which I truly feel in love with the characters. We automatically make a bond with the two main characters Dan and Alice from the scene in the beginning where we see them fall into the arms of fate as they walk towards each other on the crowded paths on London. The intensity in the first scene makes us focus so much on the characters in question that we are invited to feel the strength of them falling in love at first sight. The middle of the film opts for a approach that shows the strength of temptation. We are introduced to Larry and Anna, who slowly change the dynamics of the film in a unconventional way. Anna and Larry symbolise how sometimes we are tricked into believing that we are destined to be with more than one person, even though our heart lies with one love. The film's last scene is with the two focus characters. We are taken back to the beginning, by them remembering the first time they met. We are tricked once again into
Alice in wonderland by Lewis Carrol and Automated Alice by Jeff Noon.
Alice in Wonderland Automated Alice Lewis Carrol Jeff Noon Almost everyone has read Alice in Wonderland, whether it be as a child or as an adult. And almost everyone who has read it, or has had it read to them, has enjoyed it. I have viewed Alice in Wonderland as a movie, but I have read the novel Automated Alice by Jeff Noon. Both texts are equally enjoyable to view, however I enjoyed Automated Alice more, as it is directed more at grownups, as it has rather gruesome content. It is written in a manner that one would write to a child in, however, the plot is very complex, and even I failed at times to understand what was happening. Alice in Wonderland is directly directed1 at younger children, as it is written as a fairy tale. Alice in Wonderland begins with a young girl named Alice being taught a history lesson by her governess. Alice, however, is bored and plays with her cat. When her governess scolds her, she states that she can't find a book with no pictures in it interesting. Her governess replies by saying: "My dear Alice, there are many interesting books in this world with no pictures." "In this world maybe, but in my world, a book would be nothing but pictures." The governess rejects this idea, saying it is nonsense, and continues the lesson. Alice however, starts talking to her cat. "That's it! If I had a world of my own everything would be nonsense."
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
Was Alice just a victim of her time or were there other factors involved in her death?
Year 9 Essay By Jason YU 9Nelson " Was Alice just a victim of her time or were there other factors involved in her death?" There are two major influences, which caused the death of Alice. The social and culture change during the 1960s, and also Alice's own personal problems and the way she responded to situations in her life. Even thought that these influences can have an impact on Alice's life, however she is the one that makes decisions for her life. In social change, music is a big influence on the youth of the 1960s. In 1960s is the period when the WWII has been over for a decade and half, and people are starting to enjoy the life they living. Pop culture became the main role of the 1960s. In mid-1950s, Elvis Presley made the first impact on the world with his rock 'n' roll music. It is a type of music that differs very much to the ones that people listen to before the age of rock 'n' roll. This particular type of music has a very powerful impact on the youth of the 1960s because the music gave the youth such a powerful energy to free themselves from the old-fashioned lifestyle and live the way they wanted. Girls are going crazy for the bands they love. People are not afraid to protest against wars and they think life is about love, freedom and peace. Hippies want to 'make love