Comparing Alice In The Queen Of Hearts And The Red Queen

     Carroll’s use of the chess board is also important in Alice’s transition to adulthood. Her journey across the chess board from being a pawn to reaching the status of Queen represents the growth of being a child to becoming an adult. This emphasis is conveyed primarily in Through the Looking Glass and Carroll conveys this through the encounters that Alice has with the various characters, mainly the Queens and the Kings. The Queen always seems one step ahead of Alice, similar to what a child feels in an “adult” world. Carroll continues to express the tyranny of adulthood through Alice’s encounters and journey. She soon learns that becoming a Queen was not all

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a book written by Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a classic children's book meant to entertain the reader. The story is about a girl named Alice. Alice is sitting with her sister and she falls asleep in her lap. Alice's dream feels very real to her. Alice goes through all these things and by the time it is time to go Alice wakes up.

Alice and the the other creatures within the world of Wonderland mimic the ideas of society and their many flaws. Carroll uses many scenes within his story to provide roles for each and every character, so they could personify characters in the real world. In many instances Alice attempts to understand these individuals living within the world they call Wonderland. But like any other, Alice finds the differences between them to be too great and rejects them just like how people in the real world reject the ideas of others based on how they were raised. Alice even though she is a fresh young mind, she still already has nurtured ideals within her and it prevents her from learning from these character’s flaws. If Alice could understand that these flaws were a projection of the issues in today’s world, she could understand how Carroll’s characters are a perfect representation of today’s

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.

When Alice was talking about her cat to the other animals, she mentions without thinking that her cats eats her animals. “Dinah is our cat and she's such a capital one for catching mice, you cant think! And oh, I wish you could see her after the birds! why she’ll ear a little bird as soon as she look at it!” Alice is clearly talking without thinking about how this comment would make the other animals feel. This shows how she is lacking self control and the ability to stop before saying something that will have a negative affect on her. This also is another example of how she makes impulsive visions without thinking about the

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

Alice’s The Rational-Innocent child Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a fantasy filled with personal identity mystery. Alice shrinks and grows throughout the novel by drinking potions and eating cakes; she has no control over which way she will grow. Alice does not perfectly fit in one construction of a child. Alice is displayed as both a rational child and a romantic child however, mostly rational.

The arc of the story follows Alice’s growing certainty of her identity. When she first meets the Queen of Hearts she is only tentatively sure of herself: ‘My name is Alice, so please your Majesty’. In the final courtroom scene Alice scoffs at the jurors who write down their names in case they forget them (‘Stupid things!’), identifies herself clearly (‘”Here!” cried Alice,’) and then leaves Wonderland with the realisation, ‘You’re nothing but a pack of

During the trial of the Knave, Alice takes the stand in a very confident manner and stands up for herself before the King and Queen. “At this moment the King...read out from his book, ‘Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.’...’I’m not a mile high,’ said Alice. ‘You are.’ said the King. ‘Nearly two miles high,’ added the Queen. ‘Well, I shan’t go at any rate,’ said Alice: ‘besides that’s not a regular rule: you invented it just now.’”(112). At this point in the book, the reader sees that Alice is no longer the little girl who cried when she did not fit through the door. She is now a confident girl who stands up for herself. This moment in the book shows the pinnacle of Alice’s growth as a person and the growth of her mind frame. Throughout Through the Looking Glass, Alice becomes more comfortable in standing up for herself and knowing how to figure out the situations thrown her way. “But the Red Queen looked sulky, and growled ‘Pudding-----Alice: Alice-----Pudding. Remove the pudding!’ and the waiter took it away so quickly that Alice couldn’t return its bow. However, she didn’t see why the Red Queen should be the only one to give order; so, as an experiment, she called out ‘Waiter! Bring back the pudding!’”(230). Alice wanted to see how the Red Queen would react to others ordering people around.

“Dreams feel real while we’re in them. It’s only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange. -Inception” (50 Dream Quotes). Carroll writes Through the Looking Glass based off of the dream concept. This novel is strange compared to most because of the dream Alice has. In the beginning, Alice is playing with her kittens. As she drifts off to sleep, Alice goes through the mirror and enters Looking Glass World. While there, Alice joins a chess game as a pawn. She continues across the board and meets all sorts of characters who help Alice in her journey to become Queen. She meets the Red Queen, White Queen, Humpty Dumpty, and White Knight in different squares throughout the game. When she reaches the honor of Queen, Alice is

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.

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

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 moves in a dreamworld, far flung from typical legal guidelines and ideas” .Carroll’s Wonderland story is an a laugh story that entertained a bored society. It “cleared away the lifeless wooden in youngsters’s literature and marked the advent of liberty of idea in kids’s books” (Carpenter, 67). What's most special in the production of a young heroine distinctive from the normal ladies within the dominant youngsters’ books in Victorian time. Lewis Carroll portrays vividly Alice’s dream trip in Wonderland, the place she experiences emotional upheaval and bodily transformations, encounters quite a lot of creatures, and undergoes a loss of and quest for identification, and subsequently good points self-confidence and returns again to the

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, was a children’s book written by Lewis Carroll. The focus of