Alice in Wonderland Dream Analysis

Late rabbits, talking cats, and dancing cards are just some of the un-natural occurrences that take place in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. In today’s society with competing books, such as Harry Potter, these elements in the book may seem like no big deal, but for the time period the book was published, these were anything but normal. This children’s book was first published in 1865 in the United Kingdom; during the Victorian time period, named after Queen Victoria. The book, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland represents a satire on the Victorian Era and how people were expected to act, through which Carroll displays an overall theme of growing up.

In ‘The Circular Ruins’, Borges tells the story of a man who goes to an abandoned temple to dream up another man. The journey he takes to do so, causes the reader to live inside his head and think the way he thinks, up until the man who dreams realizes he is also a product of a dreamer. The narrator ends the short story saying “With relief, with humiliation, with terror, he understood that he was also an illusion, that someone else was dreaming him.” (44) The narrator discloses that the man who dreams is the dream of another man and that he is an illusion as well. Borges was able to create a world inside a world in the reader’s head.

William Shakespeare is a successful playwright as he uses the style of history, tragedy and comedy which is an entertaining aspect that is in all his plays.

I walk into the Moore’s house, and go upstairs. I see Alice on the bed, and tell her. “Hey, I did it with Alec. Oh, and I also told him I loved him, and he said it back. I think I wanna marry him.” “Ok slow down there Anna.” “I know, I’m sorry its just the happiest I’ve felt since what happened.” I know, and that's fantastic lets just not ask him to marry you yet.” “Yea, I know. I should probably get some less revealing clothes on.” “Yea, I’ll be downstairs.” She tells me.

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

Lewis Carroll’s classic children’s novel, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is fundamentally about the growth of the character of Alice. In the Victorian period 1837- 1901, there was a changes in children education and reflexively development of children literature. Therefore when writing Lewis Carroll attempts to put forth a form of education within the text. The story follows Alice who is a seven year old well-mannered victorian girl that stumbles through a rabbit hole into the magical world of Wonderland. Alice takes on the role of the audience viewing Wonderland and its strange inhabitants. It is through language in both conversations with herself and with the characters of wonderland that we see Alice’s journey through wonderland is representative of a child’s education into adulthood.

Is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as absurd and nonsensical as it seems to be—without any traces of morals hiding underneath the bizarre shaped tea cups and crooked smiles? Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, written by an English author in 1865 under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, contains obscurities that leave people uncertain due to the nonsense. The novel holds many obscurities, such as a disappearing Cheshire Cat, a personified rabbit, and a caterpillar who smokes from a hookah. These characters hold a common feature of madness, yet the nonsense of this novel relates to the nonsense of Lowell High School, a public school that piles bricks of pressure on their students leading them to madness. Although, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland contains a series of puzzles that seem unsolvable, it symbolizes a strong foundation that helps Lowell High School ninth graders gain knowledge about surviving the competitive school.

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.

What is real and what do we really know? These are common questions that everyone asks sometime in their lives. These questions date back since man was made. Nobody knows 100% what happens to us when we die, or what our purpose is in life. Humans have a natural instinct to raise questions to material that we are uncertain of. The movie The Matrix, Descartes First Meditation, and Plato’s The Allegory of the Cave all raise different aspects to questions such as do I exist, what is reality, and how do I know?

During the nineteenth century, Victorian men and women held differing gendered positions within society. This was largely the product of the social order of the time, which was based on separate spheres – men functioning in the public sphere of economic power and women operating in the private sphere of domestic passivity. Not only did this model of separate spheres outline the roles of men and women, but it also emphasized the appropriate behaviour of the idealized man or woman. One of the main qualities celebrated in the ideal Victorian woman was her ability to control her appetite. As such, a woman’s interaction with food can be viewed as a marker of her adherence to or rejection of idealized notions of Victorian femininity. Two texts which critically engage with food and the agency of eating are Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Sarah Grand’s Babs the Impossible. Throughout Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, a particular emphasis is placed on the food Alice encounters while navigating her way through the curious fantasy world. While Alice’s enjoyment of food suggests she rejects the ideal woman’s modest appetite, the obedience she demonstrates while eating puts her feminine agency into question. Babs the Impossible, however, differs in presenting its female heroine with complete control over what she consumes. In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Babs the Impossible, food is used to grant or deny agency to the female heroine – the former exposing

Florence King once said “ People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.” which truly describes the theme of the novella. In John Steinbeck’s novella Of Mice and Men, dreams play an important part to the characters and the plot. The character Curley’s wife uses her dreams as motivation to try and get ahead in life. Dreams are a necessity to most writings, they play a very important role in this novella, are used to signify many ____________, and affect almost all of the characters.

How do we know what is real? This is a question asked by everyone at some point during his or her life. Humanity’s ability to discern reality from fantasy is something we take for granted and sometimes we fail to question. These theories were discussed by great philosophers like Plato and Descartes and were more recently brought mainstream by the hit film The Matrix. While The Matrix brings up similar questions as these philosophers, there are also a few different ideas the movie would like the viewer to consider and draw their own thoughts from.

Oprah Winfrey once said, “The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.” But, what actually is a dream and what do dreams really have to do with one’s everyday life? In essence, a dream is a series of mental images and emotions occurring during slumber. Dreams can also deal with one’s personal aspirations, goals, ambitions, and even one’s emotions, such as love and hardship. However, dreams can also give rise to uneasy and terrible emotions; these dreams are essentially known as nightmares. In today’s society, the concept

Why Wonderland could be seen as a dream? Dreams just like Wonderland are illogical. Time also flows differently than it would in reality and there is no need to fear any life threating circumstances but we will be fine after we wake up. Wonderland seems to have a very twisted logic, one that could be compared to a dream’s where things seem to make sense at the time but in reality could not be plausible.

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