Comparing Alice In Wonderland And Mickey's Thru The Mirror

At the mention of the name Alice, one tends to usually think of the children’s stories by Lewis Carroll. Namely, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass are two classic works of children’s literature that for over a century have been read by children and adults alike. These two stories tell the tale of a young girl named Alice who finds herself in peculiar surroundings, where she encounters many different and unusual characters. Although Alice is at the centre of both stories, each tale is uniquely different in its purpose, characters and style.

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’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, is a classic novel that introduced a new form of imagery in both popular culture and literature. This is a story about a young girl named Alice who falls down a tree hole into a world known as Wonderland. In this world, every animal and plant is personified and is truly what no one would expect. Readers find out however, that Wonderland is just a figment of Alice’s imagination and she is actually dreaming the whole time. In the novel, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the main character Alice struggles to identify who she truly is.

The story “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and even the sequel, “Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There”, is an adult book for many reasons; mainly because there are a lot of hidden and double meanings hidden throughout the books. Some meanings being a major effect on the outlook of the story while other meanings being a minor thing people can easily look over. Either way they are all hard for children to pick up on. To understand the story better it’s helpful to review a little about the author.

The transformations that Alice experiences throughout Lewis Carroll’s, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, display the metaphorical change the protagonist goes through from the stage of childhood to adulthood and the continued struggle to understand her identity. These changes are experienced after Alice follows a white rabbit down his hole and into an incredible world known as Wonderland. This place, although completely fictitious, represents an alternate world to the main character that is unexplainable to herself and the real world. During her time in this world, she faces many adversities between changing sizes or being on trial that confuse her throughout the story. At the end, Alice learns

In chapter 2, Carroll uses the characters, Alice and the mouse, to satirize the awkward stages of adolescence, as well as, the essential British nature of having a “stiff upper-lip.” In chapter 6 Carroll uses, the Duchess, to satirize the victorian customs of society and the simple rules of polite behavior. In chapter 9, Carroll uses the characters, the turtle and the gryphon, to poke fun of the environment of a modern day classroom and the emotions and attitudes of the students and the teachers in a classroom. Carroll is a master of the subtle use of satire; on the face of it Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a spirited tale of adventure in a strange world, appropriate for all children of all ages. When the reader looks deeper into the true

In the year 1865, Lewis. C. Carroll published a Novel titled, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. This novel tells the story of a girl named Alice who enters a bizarre world called Wonderland, which she initially cannot comprehend because she lacks knowledge of this world and her place in it, Thus, Alice takes a journey through this world to understand both it and herself. Some people read this novel and call it a children 's story. However,the novel does more than just tell a mere children’s story. Lewis Carroll 's whimsical story, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,acts as a surreal allegory for the arduous process of coming of age and finding one 's identity. By illustrating the change in character that the protagonist of the story,Alice, undergoes in her journey.

Despite her unfamiliar surroundings, Alice attempts to interpret everything around her from a logical point of view due to how mature she is for her age. However, she is still a girl who is only seven years old and this allows the maturity that she tries so hard to show to fade away. She is in a state of disarray about who she is because of “her developing sense of the difference between childhood and adulthood” (“Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” 28). At the beginning of the text, Alice tries to read her older sister's book, only to become bored because of its lack of childish appeals: “‘What is the use of a book’, thought Alice, ‘without pictures or conversations?’” (Carroll 1). She wants to be more like her older sister, but she does have the mind of a child which is why she grows bored and begins her adventure to wonderland in the first place. Also, Alice eats or drinks something that she finds many times throughout her adventure, and this shows her lack of maturity: only a child would pick something up that says “Drink me” on it and not think of the consequences at all before drinking it. Throughout Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll emphasizes the conflict between Alice's desire to be an adult and grow up and her subconscious wanting to remain the child

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

Alice was a young girl from a respectable home, thrown into the chaos called Wonderland. She tried to understand their very peculiar customs, but was called insane by the inhabitants that she thought were mad themselves. Alice’s character was inspired by a certain young girl to whom the author would tell stories. Alice was the one constant in the story, much like children were the one constant in the author’s life. She represented normality for him in the face of mockery.

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.

Alice 's Adventures in Wonderland is a literary nonsense novel written in 1865 by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. Alice is by the riverbank when suddenly a rabbit talking and dressed in clothes swiftly runs by her. He goes into a hole and Alice follows him down into the hole and enters what seems like a new world. The rabbit led her into Wonderland. The White Rabbit reports to a queen in the book and he is seen as rushing to get to her so he would not be late. This makes him seem

Do you ever notice in stories, the female characters tend to be weak and sometimes have a mentor to guide them? Alice Adventures in Wonderland turned the tables on this type of character and made a strong, lively character Alice. Carroll disregarded the traditional plot lines and development of characters of his time by creating an empowered Alice, who overcomes the challenges in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Not only does Alice face different challenges through the story she also faces her pre-teen years of emotional and developmental stages. We can argue that Carroll disobeyed the normal childhood innocence by taking away Alice’s innocence because she had to go through Wonderland, facing different challenges that made her a strong