Comparison Of Eat Me And Drink Me

The narrator also says they could not find the beauty in Alice any longer. This being so probably because this young adult is stuck in a child's mind and has not yet been exposed to life and its first needs. In this story an example is taking care of a family. At first we never knew that Alice was a mother but continued on in the story it brings up she has a disabled son and 2 others. Perhaps this is why Alice had sticky floors and tangled hair that upset the narrator. Perhaps the narrator as a child could not see all the responsibilities Alice had that were more important than keeping her house clean. Perhaps maybe she just did not have time for herself.

Issues concerning her size, identity, and her social exchanges with both Wonderland and its creatures spur and characterize Alice’s development towards becoming a young woman.

Alice can be very childish, but throughout the story, she encounters many animals with human qualities that make her change her perspective of the world she lives in. The main obstacle in Alice's life is growing up. As she grows up, she looks at situations in a very distinctive way, such as the moment when alice meets the March Hare, The Mad Hatter, and the Dormouse. By the time the story is over, Alice is already a grown up because of all the experiences she confronted such as, the mad tea party, the encounter with the caterpillar smoking a hookah pipe, also Alice's encounter with the Red Queen during the croquet game and the trial.

In the wonderland where she stumbles around she is surrounded by talking rabbits, stoned caterpillars and one vicious bandersnatch. Every character in Wonderland is convinced “She is the wrong Alice.” This leaves the audience captivated and has sympathy for

In England, Alice is constantly being told to change her behavior, which is considered improper and inappropriate. The lack of understanding for her way of being holds her back and keeps her from growing as a person. On the other hand, Wonderland is full of the whimsical rationality that Alice possesses. Thought processes hardly makes sense in Wonderland, just like Alice didn’t make sense in England. In Wonderland, Alice is embraced and accepted, and it is there that she thrives as a

I am Alice when I read; Alice goes seeking adventure in wonderland, just as I do when reading, to escape reality. Alice was finding out herself that people could be little pieces of something, something that could be exchanged by a senseless force. Lost in Wonderland, the little girl was confused and scared and nevertheless shows true bravery in the face of her insecurities. She exchanges sense for non-sense, in an all-encompassing attempt to be able to take hold of even the most intimate core of her, so that she is forced to discover who she really is and find her identity. Like a child who is sleeping, ideology in fictional stories, quietly seeps through the narrative cracks of novels. It is embodied as an unconscious knowledge, a knowledge that doesn't know itself, and that needs to be understood and pondered by the readers. ‘Alice in Wonderland’, seen to most as simply a children’s story, has so much more depth and deals with classis themes such as coming of

Near the end of both novels the characters have become more adult-like. One of the main ways that Carroll shows Alice’s newfound maturity is through her growing intelligence. In contrast with her struggle to remember her lessons early on in the story, newfound intelligence is displayed in the courtroom. “‘I suppose they are the jurors.’ She said this last word two or three times over to herself, being rather proud of it: for she thought, and rightly too, that very few little girls of her age knew the meaning of it at all” (Carroll 89). Through this quote Alice displays a level of knowledge that depicts her as mature because her knowledge of the word jurors is said to exceed the knowledge of other little girls as well. Alice further displays

Many themes are explored when reading Lewis Carrol’s, Alice in Wonderland. Themes of childhood innocence, child abuse, dream, and others. Reading the story, it was quite clear to see one particular theme portrayed through out the book: child to adult progression. Alice in Wonderland is full of experiences that lead Alice to becoming more of herself and that help her grow up. It’s a story of trial, confusion, understanding, and success. And more confusion. Though others might argue that the story was distinctly made for children just to get joy out of funny words, and odd circumstances, the tale has obvious dynamics that confirm the fact of it being a coming of age story.

As kids get older they get exposed to so many new things. And that is what the novel is showing the reader. The novel allows the reader to view how Alice grows up in 2 years and all the things she goes through. Another important theme is difficulties of communication. Alice is never able to talk to anyone about her feelings which is why she writes in a diary. Also drugs and alcohol are a reoccurring theme because those are the two things that mess with Alice’s life the most. Identity is also a main theme because there is quite some soul searching and self-indulgent whining in the novel. Alice definitely has an almost non-existent self-esteem, so her sense of identity is determined by the people she surrounds herself with. And the last theme that stands out more than others is lies and deceit. One of them main ways Alice is able to pull off her shenanigans is because of a healthy dose of self-deception and some series denial. The whole time she is doing wrong things, she is lying to herself and her loved

From what I read and watching the trailer of Eat Drink Man Woman I think that the whole movie, it will be about a father that he has to take responsibility that he been forced at him from life and society. And one of the duties is his daughters that he wants to know everything that they do, but the daughters had a different interest in life that they are looking for and one of them is finding love and someone who they want to be with.

The Duchess sees her as nothing more than an uneducated child. She does not give Alice much respect because she figured that Alice is a child and when she is older she would have earned her respect. “Most earlier writes (contemporaries and later writers too) wrote down and descended children. They rarely gave the young credit for much intelligence, let alone sensitivity or imagination” (Cohen 142). The way the Duchess speaks to Alice is a reflection of this idea, which many authors tended to use in the time period.

Eventually Alice does seem to grow up and show her maturity. She also has a new found confidence in herself and is now content with not going back to before she entered Wonderland, likely recognising that it has changed her for the better. By learning all of these lesions in Wonderland, Alice discovers the “real

Initially, Alice is depicted at her most immature and naïve stage of development. It is early on in the novel, where she is first described as “Little Alice”. This emphasizes her child-centered perspective within the larger adult world. As Alice’s journey begins, she is inexperienced and ill equipped. This is evident in her encounter with the “Drink Me” bottle at the bottom of the rabbit hole. Alice uses the logic she would use outside Wonderland to

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.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass are both widely thought to be books filled of nonsense by adults because adults search for meaning in the wrong places. People are taught from a young age to analyze books in a “traditional” way, which is identifying the five stages of plot (exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution) and to look at the story one part at a time, slowly analyzing the whole book. This method becomes ingrained in their minds and they do it subconsciously. This frame of thought causes most adults to be unable to see the true meaning of Lewis Carroll’s two books, but at the same time helps adults obtain more than originally intended: “Although we can never hope to explain fully what these books mean or how they have secured their high place in the world’s literature, our efforts in this regard can yield many important insights about them and about their meanings for us,” (Rackin, 18). Adults are also taught there is always main plot that slowly builds towards the end, revealing a central theme. But in these books there is no main plot and Carroll uses the central theme to go back and give meaning to the rest of the events in the books. The themes of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass are conveyed through the structure of the book, rather than the theme. The theme must also be read with the perspective with that of a child rather than an adult to fully understand these books.