Comparing Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll and Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland written by Lewis Caroll was originally published on November 26, 1865. On the other hand, the movie version, directed by Clyde Geronimo, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske and produced by Walt Disney, was published in 1951. Carroll's book has twelve chapters and begins by describing a girl who named Alice that falls down a hole and finds herself in wonderland. In comparison, the movie begins with a scene not included in the book in which Alice sings about “her world,” foreshadowing wonderland. In the beginning, the versions are similar. Alice follows the rabbit because she is bored with her sister who only wants to read books with pictures. When she follows the rabbit, Alice finds herself in a different world. The difference is that in the book when Alice comes to the place, she finds the rabbit and follows him until she sees many doors. In the movie, however, the door talks to her instead.

In many cultures, coming of age is often celebrated because children become young adults who grasp self-awareness and accountability. At the same time, childhood is threatened by responsibility, which is dreaded because there is an unpredictable world of adulthood waiting with no guarantees. James Hurst demonstrates the journey of growing up through life experiences everyone goes through in the short story, “The Scarlet Ibis”. Throughout his use of mood, setting, and symbolism, Hurst shows that maturing requires reflecting on past experiences and losing innocence, which then can transform one’s outlook on life.

Technology has underwent many advances in the past ten years. At this rate, the world may see a fully technological world by the next twenty years. This meaning, flat television screens everywhere, no more walking, and no more reading from paper books. The author Ray Bradbury who wrote Fahrenheit 451 and Margaret Atwood who wrote Oryx and Crake both wrote their novels in a dystopian society. A dystopia is a place or state in which society is unpleasant or bad, usually this occurs by actions brought upon by the government or someone in power. In Fahrenheit 451, it was against the law to read books, the characters are so wrapped up with their technological devices that they fail to realize how beneficial books can actually

The poem Jabberwocky written by Lewis Carroll and The Lorax by Dr. Seuss and two different but somewhat similar poems. Jabberwocky is about a boy who fought a against a monster, Jabberwocky, whom everyone is afraid of. The Lorax is about a small woodland creature whose name is Lorax, who came to the old Once-ler man to speak for the truffled trees. But firstly, the similarities between the two poems are that they are both nonsense poems and they both uses nonsense made up or combine words. For example, one of the combine word in Jabberwocky is slithy, slithy is made up of silly and filthy, and one of the combine word from the lorax is rippulous, rippulous is made of pond and ripples. Some other similarities between the poems

As his mental state worsens, he transforms himself into a knight and fights with the imaginary enemies and abandons his niece and household to search for fictitious adventures. Don Quixote’s obsession with his books leads him to the point where he loses his mind and finds an escape in the fictional chivalry. Don Quixote shows participatory responses in the following scenes where he re-plots the ordinary events to fit his fictional adventures. For example, he fights with windmills while seeing them as giants. When Sancho tells him that they are windmills, Don Quixote persuades him that it is enchanter who turned them into the mills. Moreover, Don Quixote sees an ordinary peasant woman as a noble lady and calls her Dulcinea del Toboso and vows to fight for her honor. His immersion into Don Quixote is seen during his imaginary battle with muleteers, where he fights according to the code of chivalry that he read in his

Don Quixote is considered as the first modern novel and one of the most important modernist elements available in the novel is the exploration of characters’ inner worlds, especially of Don Quixote’s. Through inner exploration of the main character, the readers observe that the real and the illusionary are interoperable within Don Quixote’s perceptions of the outside world. In that sense, a post-modern concept which suggests that truth is multifaceted and it’s a creation of mind emerges in the novel. In postmodernist sense, the notion of truth still exists, however it is no longer a problematic issue and assumed to be

A role of Don Quixote’s delusions is to provide a glimpse into a situation where the chivalric code is implemented. Don Quixote is mad at first glance:

The textbook says that love can often be described as “caring more for another than oneself”, resulting in the argument that platonic love is almost always present in friendships (R. Janaro). This idea is supported with examples from Don Quixote, Driving Miss Daisy, and Huckleberry Finn. The common factor in the stories is the notion that one of the two main characters is concerned so deeply for the other that it can be said that they love the other person. The book says that the relationships in the three stories qualifies as friendship but also as love. I disagree with this idea that caring excessively for another person is labeled as love. I care deeply for all of my friends, regardless of gender and do everything in my power to make sure

The novel Don Quixote, written by Miguel de Cervantes, is a very unusual and very descriptive novel about an older gentleman, Don Quixote, who reads so many books that one day after reading so many books, he decides to live out his adventures from his books. When reading this story, many will just see a crazy and delusional old man who is “chasing windmills” for he sees them as giants he must conquor. However, I see a much different kind of delusion that Quixote is going through; which not only make him the protagonist of the story, but he also becomes the hero, even if it is in his own mind. Also within this humouros novel, Cervantes invokes so much more meaning to this story in an underlying fashion.

During the 16th century, Miguel de Cervantes served the Spanish Armada and was attacked and taken captive by pirates. He was enslaved for five years and was finally ransomed by his family. This served as fuel for the first novel in history, Don Quixote, which mocks and satirizes the knights and aristocracy of the time due to their idealistic nature. A century later, Voltiare, a french enlightenment thinker, wrote Candide to destroy the notion of Optimistic thinking and show the ineffectiveness and irrational traditions nobles had in the 17th century and does so through numerous instances of irony and satire throughout the novel. Although the protagonists and ideals of each text are disparate, comparably, both Cervantes and Voltaire mocks

Miguel de Cervantes in the novel, Don Quixote, suggests that chivalry and knights are not as noble as they seem. Cervantes supports his idea by having Don Quixote parody acts of chivalry and knighthood. For example, in the story Don Quixote tries to fight windmills claiming they are giants. Obviously they were not giants because Sancho saw them as windmills. Don Quixote later claims that the windmills were enchanted to look like giants so he would lose the fight. Cervantes may use Don Quixote's actions to say that knights are not as smart as people make them appear. The authors purpose is to convey readers to think that chivalrous acts and knights are not always as noble as they seem. The author writes in a humorous tone in order to entertain

The Unusual Relationship Between Don Quixote The Knight Errant and His Squire Sancho Panza: For many years, the Spain tried to reconquest its territory from the Muslims Moors who had invaded and conquered it. But, in 1492 the monarchs of Spain at that time, Ferdinand and his queen, Isabel de castile, eliminated the Muslims of Spain by conquering the Moorish Kingdom of Granada and established the religion of Christianity. Therefore, Spain used to be pluralistic with three religions and the three religions was abolished and replaced by a monolithic religion, Catholicism.

The essentials to a vampire story are an older, alluring man with dark intentions, a young, beautiful, unmarried woman, the stripping away of the female’s youth and innocence, the older man’s continuation of life, and the death or destruction of the female. A literary work that has no vampires in it, yet is still a vampire story, is Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. In the book, Tom Riddle is the alluring older man. Voldemort, the murderous dark wizard, is using his past appearance to lure a young female to him. Riddle lures Ginny Weasley, a young innocent female, to him using a diary. The more she writes in the diary, the more of her life he is taking away from her. He grew stronger from her writing her deepest fears and thoughts. Ginny

There has not been a time in which a hero’s tale has lacked a trusty sidekick. For a lonely hero may not be a hero at all, but rather an insane person since only an insane person cannot make meaningful relationships. It is also true that a sidekick is never a mirror image of his master, but an opposite personality that balances the hero. This is the case for the two main characters, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, in Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. These are two different individuals, each his own person, but completes the other.

The indisputable literary value of The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (usually abbreviated to Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes places his work at the top of the global canon of literature. Internationally recognised as Cervantes’s masterpiece, the work was published in the early seventeenth century during the European Renaissance period, hallmarking the Spanish Golden Age of literature as “the first modern novel” in the history of writing. One may naturally wonder then, what exactly are the radical components of Don Quixote that gives it the element of “modernity” which raises its values up above all the precedent literary works of earlier centuries?