Alice and Wonderland 2010

Alice ultimately has the most power in the book. She might seem like the most powerless character because of her ethnicity and gender, but her resilience and ability to influence others makes her the most omnipotent. For instance, she was abused, threatened, and even raped by Rufus; but her constraint of giving him the one thing that he wanted made her hold the power over him. It all started when Rufus raped Alice for the first time and therefore was almost beaten to death by her fiance. Due to him being a slave Alice and her fiance decided to “just get away,” (119) before Rufus woke up and got him killed but

Robin is the most notable fairy in the play and is the servant of the fairy king, Oberon. Along with Oberon, Robin is the most comedic and protagonistic character in this play. He is responsible for the essential events that occur in the woods whether on purpose or just on accident. He recognizes himself as a

By Frank Beddor’s The Looking Glass Wars, he retells the story of Alice in Wonderland by putting it in the perspective of Alyss as the princess of Wonderland, when she is forced to flee Wonderland when her Aunt Redd (Queen Genevieve’s sister) comes to retake her throne. Alyss ends up in Victorian London and is separated from her keeper Hatter Madigan. Beddor changes the story to provide good significance and inspiring themes to give good imagery throughout the story. For example, in the story Queen Genevieve, Hatter, and Alyss forget their own survival to sacrifice themselves for the good of others.

“She thinks of when she fought a flood…There are some things a bushwoman just cannot do… she cried then.” The woman crying shapes our understanding of her mental strength, after everything living in the bush has thrown at her, being reduced to tears and physically beaten she stays strong. Willing to endure even more the environment can throw at her. Burton also uses flashbacks to add depth to Alice’s character; the flashbacks are symbolic of the decline in her imagination, her willingness to try the ‘impossible’ and a symbol of her conformity. These flashbacks are also a sad reminder of the passing of her father; he was one to encourage the use of her imagination and believing in impossible things. Her current adventure in Underland is very different to the first because she has forgotten to believe in the impossible; once she crosses this barrier Absolum confesses she is again the ‘real Alice’.

The traditional male qualities are overtaken by female characters such as the Queen of Hearts and the Duchess. Also, a male character such as the King of Hearts expresses the traditional female qualities. However, throughout the story, Alice meets characters who support their traditional gender roles such as the White Rabbit and the Pigeon. All in all, Alice learns that although some characters such as the Duchess have reversed cultural gender roles, she still expressed her maternal instinct, prompting Alice to discover the ancient feminine in

From the moment she sees the White Rabbit taking his watch from his waistcoat pocket, Alice tries to understand the logic of Wonderland. None of the rules that she has been taught seem to apply in Wonderland. The characters in Wonderland have no sense of manners and respond to her questions with answers that make no sense. For example, the Mad Hatter asks the questions, “Why is a raven like a writing desk?” (Alice 51). Alice assumes he is asking a riddle and she begins to try to answer it, thinking the Hatter would not ask a riddle without knowing the answer. When Alice is unable to figure out the riddle, the Hatter explains that there is no answer. He does not explain why he asked the riddle, he simply says, “I haven’t the slightest idea” (Alice 53). In which Alice replies, “I think you might do something better with the time, than waste it in asking riddles that have no answers” (Alice 53). The Hatter then responds with a lecture on Time, which he depicts as a person. Time being depicted as a person makes no logical sense to Alice. In the end, Alice rebels during the trial scene when the King said “Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court” (Alice 88). Alice objects to the absurd nature of the trial saying, “Who cares for you? You’re nothing but a pack of cards!” (Alice 91). This final scene is the end of her dream, and she wakes up with her head in her sister’s lap.

Lily Tomlin, better know as Violet Newstead from the movie 9 to 5 really came into the role and performed greatly. Her character, Violet Newstead, was hard-working and had a vision of success. She knew what she wanted and she knew that she deserved it. You could see how much the 3rd Wave Feminism affected her because towards the second half of the movie you saw her become more powerful in her ways. She is more forceful and demanding because she knows that no matter what gender she is, she deserved what she was asking for. She worked hard for that promotion and Mr. Hart gave it to a man just because the job wasn’t fit for a women.

With the help of the Red Queen, Absolem, and the White Queen, representing the id, ego, and superego, respectively, the psychoanalytic theory can be utilized to portray the various levels of the human psyche. The id shows humans instinctual drives that are present at birth, such as how the Red Queen found pleasure in taking people’s heads off. The caterpillar was able to use his wisdom and practicality to make judgements about Alice in Wonderland, which shows hour the ego operates. The superego was portrayed by the White Queen, who knew the difference between right and wrong in Wonderland. In the human mind, all three are present in either a conscious or an unconscious state. In the film, Alice knows that her imagination has taken over, which was not admired of children during the Victorian

The fantasy film adaption of Lewis Carroll’s original novel ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ was directed by Tim Burton and produced in 2010. The visually engaging version of Alice’s quirky adventures is comprised of many vivid mise-en-scene effects in the dynamic scene where Alice slays the Jabberwocky. These vast arrays of elements include colour, lighting, set design, props, makeup, creative costumes and sound effects.

In comparison, antagonists in literary works are often associated with threat because they are seen as more powerful and strong, which Burton helps the viewer interpret though his use of low angles. In contrast to the White Queen in Alice in Wonderland, the Red Queen is regarded as evil and cruel, impressing upon the viewer in the scene where she ordered the execution of one of her frog servants because he ate her tarts that she is dominant over her subjects through oppression. This cinematic element transfers the perception that the Red Queen is stronger and more potent than she is, and makes her appear larger than normal. Similarly, low angles are used in Edward Scissorhands when Jim, an antagonist, is shown approaching Edward in a menacing manner. As Jim is being shown through a low angle, one infers that Jim is a threat because of the power and strength the low angle gives him. Burton uses these unique camera angles in his films particularly to show his darker, more threatening characters.

The acting plays a crucial role in the way the audience perceives the characters. Skeeter Phelan (Emma Stone), Hilly Holbrook (Bryce Dallas Howard), and Celia Foote (Jessica Chastain) are wide-smiled, younger-aged, petite, white women, whereas Aibileen Clark (Viola Davis), and Octavia Spencer

In Alice’s Adventures, Alice falls down a rabbit- hole for what seems like forever, while bits and pieces of her identity remain trapped at the entrance. After this fall,

Redmayne’s performance here appears to be one of immense emotional distress, and witnessing the struggle to make a socially unacceptable change is sure to be wildly heartbreaking. Every line out of his mouth convinced me more and more that he was meant to be a woman, and that’s the deciding factor here. A lot of this film hinges on the audience believing that Redmayne is a woman, and while it works in spades for me, there are unquestionably going to be some folks who don’t at all buy it. Those are going to be the people that bring this film down, if he’s not believable the entire film becomes

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll endures as one of the most iconic children 's books of all time. It remains one of the most ambiguous texts to decipher as Alice 's adventures in Wonderland have created endless critical debate as to whether we can deduce any true literary meaning, or moral implication from her journey down the rabbit hole. Alice 's station as a seven year old Victorian child creates an interesting construct within the novel as she attempts to navigate this magical parallel plain, yet retain her Victorian sensibilities and learn from experience as she encounters new creatures and life lessons. Therefore, this essay will focus on the debate as to whether Alice is the imaginatively playful child envisaged by the Romantics, or a Victorian child whose imagination has been stunted by her education and upbringing.

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