Alice In Wonderland Loss Of Identity

However, being small means that Alice takes double the time to cover ground and she cannot jump. The hidden key holes lead to a place where Alice recollects her memories that play a short dialogue or bottles that have a hidden note. The memories and bottles are scattered in hidden places throughout the game. There are also shrinking violets that Alice can see at her normal height but must shrink in them in order for them to work their magic and heal her. In contrast to shrinking, gigantic Alice allows her to crush walls and destroy towers but she can only use her hands and feet. When Alice loses health battling there is a hysteria state that Alice can enter which allows her to not intake any more damage and cause twice the amount of damage on her enemies. In this state wonderland is seen in all gray and Alice appears white with blood shot eyes and blood all over her and her weapons. Another power she has includes triple jumping which allows her to reach further platforms to not fall and die. Alice also has a power where she appears as an enormous amount of tiny butterflies that zooms her invincibly to either get further after triple jumping or to dodge enemies. Alice stays in the butterfly dodging state for a couple of seconds. Finally floating after jumping allows Alice to glide to further platforms which she would not be able to do by jumping

“Sometimes I have believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast”(Alice) . When I was growing up, Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland was my absolute favorite movie to watch with my family. The movie’s main character, Alice, has a timid yet creative personality that connects with me, while her adventures inspire me to dream of goals I can accomplish. Many life lessons are brought to life throughout the motion picture. Along with a unique personality, each character has many ways of showing me how to express myself. Such as developing my identity, staying true to my beliefs, and keeping an open mind.

Now Alice can be seen as becoming a mother in creating the amniotic fluid. Alice makes two more changes in size before she enters the magical world of Wonderland. The reader is well aware that Alice is very torn between childhood and adulthood as she begins her journey through the terrifying world of experience. Throughout the rest of the story Alice continues to question her identity. Naively an image of the fallen adult society that she embodies at an age when she wholeheartedly embraces its values and assumptions, Alice barely retains the most precious gift of childlike innocence- a potentially redemptive imagination that gives her passage to Wonderland (Otten 51). The reader becomes aware that Wonderland attempts to evoke the child back out of Alice, who they know already feels so grown up. Her attitude towards people in Wonderland illustrates her attempt to prove that she is in fact an adult. For example, she fears being Mabel because Mabel lives "in that pokey little house" and has "ever so many lessons to learn!". Later, she feels no remorse in knocking the Rabbit into the cucumber-frame or in kicking Bill out of the chimney. Perhaps the most convincing argument for Alice occurs at the Duchess's house. In her attempt to save the baby from abuse, Alice assumes moral responsibility: "Wouldn't it be murder to leave it behind?" (Carroll 69). Her compassion here coexists with her adult-like and proper behavior. "Don't grunt. That's not a

Carroll uses insecurities and the messages of chaos and death to express how bewildering and complicated life is. Feeling frustrated with her inability to control her form, Alice's battle represents the insecurities of puberty. Carroll's novel contains the recurring message of chaos: how bewildering and complicated life is. The only thing Alice can count on is frustration and ureliability. Alice goes through many life-endangering incidents, yet death never materializes. Carroll uses the interesting story to draw in readers and get them to see his point of view without anyone noticing it. Using Alice as a relatable vessel, Carroll projects his ideas from her personality. Alice;s Adventures in Wonderland is a fascinating story that encapsulates

The wonderland is not kind to Alice at all. What is worse, changes in her body sizes make Alice feel confused about her identity. When the Caterpillar asks Alice to explain herself, she answers, “I can’t explain myself, I’m afraid, sir, … because I’m not myself, you see” (Carroll, 60). But Alice does not give up her journey. She keeps her temper and adapts to her surroundings calmly. As Alice continues her adventure flexibly, she establishes her identity. Therefore, Alice stands up for herself on the unfair trial of the Queen of Hearts and comes back to her real size.

“Like all children, Alice must separate herself from identification with others, develop an ego, become aware of aggression (her own and others), and learn to tolerate adversity without succumbing to self-pity….In other words Alice needs to grow up” (Stowell as qtd.in Millikan). Throughout Alice’s journey she is able to do all of the above by her many encounters with the animals in Wonderland. She comes to terms with who she is as a person by the end of the story and learns lots of valuable lessons which are enhanced by Carroll’s unique use of playing with the female protagonist’s height. Of course the protagonist is not aware of this and soon comes to the valuable realisation about wishing to be what she is not when she internalizes the following:

Lewis Carroll 's Wonderland is a queer little universe where a not so ordinary girl is faced with the contradicting nature of the fantastic creatures who live there. Alice 's Adventures in Wonderland is a child 's struggle to survive in the condescending world of adults. The conflict between child and adult gives direction to Alice 's adventures and controls all the outstanding features of the work- Alice 's character, her relationship with other characters, and the dialogue. " Alice in Wonderland is on one hand so nonsensical that children sometimes feel ashamed to have been interested in anything so silly (Masslich 107)."

The Mouse: The first creature Alice meets in Wonderland. Mouse is initially scared of Alice, when she talks about her cat. He later on takes her with him with other creatures.

Here, she starts to notice how contradictory adults are and while reacting to their questions, she will start to think as an adult. All the creatures of Wonderland are mad and she soon realises that she can rebel to them and find her own way to her world. As Auden states: “According to Lewis Carroll, what a child desires before anything else is that the world in which he finds himself should make sense.”(Auden, W. H. (1962). Today’s “Wonder-World” needs Alice. In R. Phillips (Ed.), Aspects of Alice: Lewis Carroll’s dreamchild as seen through the critics’ looking-glasses (pp.3-12). Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, p.11). At this point Alice starts, from being a passive creature in the adult world of Wonderland to make her voice to be heard and act actively. This highlights that confidence is overcoming her insecurities and she becomes more determined in finding her own identity. We can see this change when Alice finally manages to open the little door and thus enters in the

Based on the novel Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll, Alice, the heroine of the story is a curious, imaginative, strong- willed, and honest young English girl. Her adventures begin when she falls asleep by the side of a stream in a meadow and dreams that she follows a White Rabbit down his hole.

Alice begins to conflate her changes in size with a change in identity. For example, in chapter four when Alice grows inside the White Rabbit’s house she says that she will “never get any older than I am now” because there is “no room to grow up” (pp33). Alice’s loss of childhood innocence is intrinsically linked to her lack of a true identity. Moreover, Alice’s conversation with the anthropomorphised Cheshire Cat about which way to go represents an uncertainty regarding how to find the right direction to take in life. Alice’s loss of innocence is marked by the senseless violence perpetrated by the Red Queen. Alice begins to see that the world is not all good or fair as evidenced by the croquet game with the Queen: “I don’t think they play at all fairly (…) and they don’t seem to have any rules in particular; at least, if there are, nobody attends to them” (pp75). The realism of violence permeates Alice’s imaginary dreamland is a catalyst for Alice’s loss of innocence and consequently her transition to adulthood at the end of the

Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland is an 1865 novel written by Lewis Carroll. It is a story based around a young girl who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world which is occupied by anthropomorphic creatures. This novel can be seen as a bildungsroman, concerned with the development and maturity of the young character. It concentrates on Alice’s difficulties in order for her to gain self-awareness and self-control that’s needed for adulthood. It may also be viewed as a proto feminist novel, as in the era it was written in feminism was unknown. However Alice can be seen to break out of known stereotypes and rebel against the norms and values given to women of her class.

In fact, the most obvious theme that can be found in the novel is the theme of growing up. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is an allegory for how the one develops from childhood to adulthood. ”Alice is engaged in a romance quest for her own identity and growth, for some understanding of logic, rules, the games people play, authority, time and death.” (www.bbc.com) Lewis Carroll adored the unprejudiced and innocent way young children approach the world. With Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, he wanted to describe how a child sees our adult world, including all of the (in the eyes of a child silly and arbitrary) rules and social etiquette we created for ourselves, as well as the ego's and bad habits we have developed during our lives. The novel represents the child's struggle to survive in the confusing world of adults. But during the journey through wonderland, Alice learns to understand the adult world somewhat more. In fact, she is growing

Alice begins the novel as a naïve child, who struggles with adjusting to new situations and the nonsense of Wonderland. She struggles with the continuous growth and changes of her body. Alice goes through various physical changes during her time in Wonderland that makes her uncomfortable. This continuous growth is similar to a child going through the awkward physical changes of puberty. Per the Department of Pediatrics, University of California, School of Medicine and Davis,

The first character Alice encounters is the White Rabbit. During their meeting, the Rabbit mistakes Alice for his maid Mary Ann, and requests she get his gloves and fan, which he forgot at home. His attitude towards Alice, and others he considered inferior, is rather pompous, but he acts humble and shows respect around the King and Queen. Based on this, I believe the White Rabbit could act as the antithesis of Alice. Whereas Alice attempts to act polite towards everyone,