Alice 's Journey Down The Rabbit Hole

“Alice in Wonderland”, written by Lewis Carroll, is an incredible masterpiece filled with nonsense literature about a young girl named Alice Liddell, who follows “a White Rabbit with pink eyes” (Carroll) down a rabbit hole and finds herself in the world of Wonderland. Intrigued with this realm, she continues forward to discover what adventures awaited her through the Mad Hatter’s tea party, and the Queen of Hearts’ court. The connection with Marxism and this novel is how Queen Victoria ruled at the time this story was written, and few believe it reflects upon her times in Victorian England. In addition, the characters all play essential archetypes to portray their social standing and Alice is capable of proving this through her adventures when she changes heights in order to join and belong with each social order.

I believe children and young people are positioned somewhere between the constructed child or tabula rasa and the constructive child, one who is shaping their identity “out of what is culturally available” (Stainton Roges as cited by Rudd 17). They have the ability to see the world with an open mind, one free of biases until an event, idea or person influences them in some way. With that in mind adults have the power to provide children with literature and stories to position them to read the world in many different and inclusive ways adhering to Zipes’ idea that in this case literature is set up to “promote adult aims” (4). Although Zipes goes on to state that children’s literature also exists to promote “the power of the market” (4) in many cases I hope this is not completely true. In a world that is more and more commercially driven, with the sheer volume of children’s literature in existance one would hope that some of the authors are trying to promote positivity to support children and not purely or exclusively trying to make money.

From dealing with outrageous adult behavior to literally growing up too quickly, Alice slowly ventures nearer and nearer to the adulthood and maturity that awaits here. However, she does not need to leave her imagination behind her, in reality that is one of the few things she can never outgrow. Proving both these points is the final few paragraphs of the book, in which Alice's older sister reminisces about her own childhood and, for a brief moment, ventures herself into the wonderful world of Wonderland. Yet it is possible that the original story, the one orally presented to Alice Liddell, was simply for amusement as Lewis Carroll actually added several tales to the transcribed version of his fanciful tale.

The perception of the importance of focusing on children and the part that they play in society, was not a substantial matter of focus and study in previous eras. Consequently, history of childhood is fairly new, and there are limited sources

Alice’s adventure in Wonderland allows her to get into trouble, to meet, debate with, and even talk back to adult creatures, to explore new places by herself, and most importantly, to boldly assert who she is. Taken as a whole, Alice’s fantastical adventure of magical transformation in size and encounters with animals and animated playing cards reenacts the archetypes of initiation and transition into adolescence, where the adolescent preparing for adulthood must begin to experiment with autonomy. Her question about her identity “who am I” is quite meaningful. In Wonderland, Alice learns to be the girl she wants to be and the necessity of making choices, thinking for herself, and affirming self-knowledge. The statement “You’re nothing but a pack of cards” (Carroll, 1993, p.121) crowns Alice’s achievement and marks her out as a rebellious, autonomous and courageous girl who is quite different from those Victorian ideal female preceding

In order to accurately understand why Alice journey is considered a classic fairy tale, it is important to examine the context of the story. The author that gave life to Alice was born in the 17th century as Charles Dodgson, who would later adopt the name Lewis Carroll with the publishing of Alice Adventures in Wonderland. Ren explores more context on Ren in order to relay the mature themes Carroll adds to the story stating “He portrays the struggle of power between the adult and child in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and displays a strong sympathy for the child Alice who is thrown into a mad and disorderly world of adults. By sending the child into an adult world, Lewis Carroll subverts the social conventions and binary opposition between the adult and the child (Ren 2015).”Lewis Carrol story of Alice comes from the perspective of an author that had a distinct insight of children thought patterns and conversely attribute their creative minds to produce a fascinating story. The origins of the story are derived from children as the main audience, therefore, any renditions that wish to capture the essence of Carroll’s tale must keep children in the driver seat of the

The Victorians and us today have a fascination of an altered reality of Alice. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a book that was written in the Victorian time period by Lewis Carroll that is still very popular today. This is due to it’s world full of animals that can Talk and White rabbits that has a pocket watches It is a world that is not. The Victorians had a love for fiction and entertainment. So now let’s take an adventure down the rabbit hole and find out who we really are.

Alice is forced to take control in Wonderland when she provides the teaching role in the adult-child relationship evident when Alice says “’Don’t grunt”, said Alice; “that’s not at all a proper way of expressing yourself’” (Carroll 47) to the Duchess. Alice seeks to find order in Wonderland by using her knowledge from home to navigate through the secondary world when she recalls book related advice such as, “if you drink from a bottle marked “poison”, it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later”(11). This advice has no relevance, and her book knowledge is not applicable in a savage place such as Wonderland. Alice is automatically belittled by the narrator and portrays an unintelligent child. Alice is playing the role of an adult and child because she is in a transitory phase of life where she is maintaining good Victorian ideals distinct among adults yet still living in the imaginary childish fantasy of Wonderland where her adult maturity is often deflated, as well.

In the novella “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland the themes “Exploration,” “Madness,” and “Identity” are evident throughout. Throughout this essay, I will be telling you about the themes and how they link to Alice.

Often, many things in life are hidden in plain sight. One must have the senses to see them, like in Jesus' parables. They are ordinary stories that have hidden messages of God and his Kingdom, visible to those who look carefully enough. The same could be said about Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, a tale of a young girl in a nonsensical world. The novel comprises of a whimsical charm and a feeling of absurd madness. Early critics even considered it nonsense, unworthy of serious critiquing. But underlying all the nonsense and illogic, there is more that can be taken from the story, even from a psychoanalytical point of view. Carroll very cleverly uses literary devices, specifically satire, paradox, and personification to put some sense into the seemingly nonsensical world of Wonderland.

Alice in Wonderland, the most famous work of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, is the enduring tale of one girl’s journey into a world of whimsy and imagination. The story was written for the enjoyment of all children, as Carroll had a strong love and attachment to them, especially little girls. It was however, written more specifically for a dear, close child-friend of his by the name of Alice Liddell, who was the inspiration for the title character. Alice in Wonderland has been, throughout the years since it’s publication in 1865, endlessly deconstructed, analyzed, and studied for underlying meaning in the text (as in Martin Gardner‘s The Annotated Alice). One of the most noticeable and famous facets of the story

Finding your identity as a maturing human, is something many people struggle with. Imagine you are a young girl, soon tumbling down a hole to a whole new world. Lewis Carroll shares the story of a girl named Alice. The book is a fun and creative story, but shares the struggles of a young girl finding her identity. The style of Lewis Carroll is often described as symbolic. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll is written using many symbols. The symbols show children’s identity changes while entering adulthood. The symbols of the garden and the caterpillar 's mushroom, fantasized characters, and the rabbit hole in Wonderland lead Alice to her true identity.

Lewis Carroll 's novel “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” creates a world that is enforced by extremely foreign and unusual principles and rules that are ordinary to the characters in Wonderland. Alice appears to be odd and unusual compared to the rest of Wonderland’s characters. Her sense of self is tested throughout this novel.

The Victorian Era is known for many things. Within the time frame of Queen Victoria’s reign, there were major events such as Ireland’s potato famine, the Crimean War, as well as the industrial revolution. In the literary world, however, the era sprouted many of the world’s famous Victorian-based novels that are still being read today. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is well-known by most people for its vivid use of the imagination. The story itself is one that promotes creativity, open-mindedness and viewing the world in different perspectives. While Lewis Carroll’s story captivates and inspires people of all ages, what brings a young girl’s adventure to life are the illustrations behind it. The story of Alice is nothing without the visual aid of the original illustrator, Sir John Tenniel. While there are some Alice lovers that do not know who John Tenniel is, those that do, understand how important Tenniel was in creating the Victorian novel as well as its sequel. The question that now stands because of this is, how involved was John Tenniel to the Alice novels? While the world best knows Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland best due to the words of Lewis Carroll, it is nothing without the visual representations and influences by Sir John Tenniel.

One goal of postmodern critics is to question and analyze the grand narratives found in society (Gillespie 244). Postmodern critics scoff at people who accept grand narratives, or “comprehensive worldview[s]” (243) that can supposedly embody all the differences between people. Unlike grand narratives, discourse is “any particular interpretive viewpoint” (244), meaning that it can be different for each person. However, both grand narratives and dominant discourses are used by those in power to control society. Lewis Carroll 's novel, Alice 's Adventures in Wonderland, shows how society itself mirrors the discourses of those in power. The book was published in the mid-1800s, when education started to become more important and when schools had overly strict standards for their students. Alice, one of the said students, has been taught to adhere to certain guidelines that only apply in her society. Those guidelines have been drilled so deep into her head that she can not forget them, even in a completely new environment: Wonderland. Throughout the story, Alice attempts to apply the meanings that she learned in her old society to Wonderland. Carroll uses Alice’s words and reactions to the differences between Wonderland’s and her own meanings to deconstruct the ridgeness of Alice’s society’s dominant discourse.