Iracebeth: Alice In The Heart Of Wonderland

Pursuing this further, as Alyss transforms into the Queen of Wonderland she leads the Alyssians into battle to defeat Redd and reclaims her kingdom. The reader reads “the most powerful queen ever to lead Wonderland” (Beddor 358). When Alyss battles Redd, her imagination and confidence help her defeat Redd. Alyss is powerful with her imagination when she releases a bolt of energy from her finger and grabs Redd then swings her across the ballroom walls. Now that Alyss is the rightful Queen of Wonderland, she has fulfilled the hopes of the Wonderlanders

“She thinks of when she fought a flood…There are some things a bushwoman just cannot do… she cried then.” The woman crying shapes our understanding of her mental strength, after everything living in the bush has thrown at her, being reduced to tears and physically beaten she stays strong. Willing to endure even more the environment can throw at her. Burton also uses flashbacks to add depth to Alice’s character; the flashbacks are symbolic of the decline in her imagination, her willingness to try the ‘impossible’ and a symbol of her conformity. These flashbacks are also a sad reminder of the passing of her father; he was one to encourage the use of her imagination and believing in impossible things. Her current adventure in Underland is very different to the first because she has forgotten to believe in the impossible; once she crosses this barrier Absolum confesses she is again the ‘real Alice’.

In Frank Beddor´s The Looking Glass Wars he tells an out of the ordinary story of Alice in

Still Alice (Genova, 2009) is a captivating debut novel about a 50-year-old woman’s sudden decline into early onset Alzheimer’s disease. The book is written by first time author Lisa Genova, who holds a PH.D in neuroscience from Harvard University. She’s also an online columnist for the national Alzheimer’s association. Her other books include Left Neglected and Love Anthony. She lives with her husband and two children in Cape Cod.

The traditional male qualities are overtaken by female characters such as the Queen of Hearts and the Duchess. Also, a male character such as the King of Hearts expresses the traditional female qualities. However, throughout the story, Alice meets characters who support their traditional gender roles such as the White Rabbit and the Pigeon. All in all, Alice learns that although some characters such as the Duchess have reversed cultural gender roles, she still expressed her maternal instinct, prompting Alice to discover the ancient feminine in

From the moment she sees the White Rabbit taking his watch from his waistcoat pocket, Alice tries to understand the logic of Wonderland. None of the rules that she has been taught seem to apply in Wonderland. The characters in Wonderland have no sense of manners and respond to her questions with answers that make no sense. For example, the Mad Hatter asks the questions, “Why is a raven like a writing desk?” (Alice 51). Alice assumes he is asking a riddle and she begins to try to answer it, thinking the Hatter would not ask a riddle without knowing the answer. When Alice is unable to figure out the riddle, the Hatter explains that there is no answer. He does not explain why he asked the riddle, he simply says, “I haven’t the slightest idea” (Alice 53). In which Alice replies, “I think you might do something better with the time, than waste it in asking riddles that have no answers” (Alice 53). The Hatter then responds with a lecture on Time, which he depicts as a person. Time being depicted as a person makes no logical sense to Alice. In the end, Alice rebels during the trial scene when the King said “Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court” (Alice 88). Alice objects to the absurd nature of the trial saying, “Who cares for you? You’re nothing but a pack of cards!” (Alice 91). This final scene is the end of her dream, and she wakes up with her head in her sister’s lap.

The White Queen prances around in her graceful white gown, portraying her as sensitive, pure and an innocent soul. However, her lip colour, eyebrows and nail polish is in contrast to her skin tone; but then again, isn’t everything a little twisted in the nonsensical and intriguing world of Wonderland! The White Queen’s kind-hearted and good-natured charm is evident as the Red Queen jealously remarks, “You think you can blink with those pretty little eyes and I’ll melt just like mummy and daddy

To the average reader, the story of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland may seem nonsensical and absurd. However, Carroll was incepting a much bigger picture than just of peculiar characters and poems of a stammering college professor. Indeed, the story of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was a political satire filled with scenes that ridiculed the government or a legal process. Interestingly, in a scene from the book, Alice attends a trial judged by the King of Hearts whereby the Knave of Hearts is accused of stealing the Queen’s tarts. In the jury-box she sees 12 creatures, comprising of animals and birds, putting their names down on slates for fear they might forget their names at the end of the trial. Furthermore, the King of Hearts, at one point, starts demanding for a verdict from the jury but one never

the story. The hope was the younger sister would fight the dragon, but the young child provided

The Lord of the Fies and Alice Wonderland have a way of escaping the trap. An character from the Lord of the Flies, Ralph tells all the boys that their are trapped in a island with no adults. Ralph as leader had a group called “The Hunters” to do a signal fire . Luckily a navy group saw the signal fire , and rescue from being trapped in the island. As an connections between both, an fantasy dream character from Alice Wonderland “The Mad Hatter” explains to Alice that she is trapped in a never-ending tea party. Suddenly getting out of the trap of her dreams was challenged. As the Queen of the Heart says “off her head” , Alice wakes up. Comparing stories could lead into a tragic situation, this is shown as intelligent can get out of

Alice ultimately has the most power in the book. She may seem like the most powerless character because of her ethnicity and gender, but her resilience and ability to influence others made her the most omnipotent. For instance, she may have been abused, threatened, and even raped by Rufus; but her constraint of giving him the one thing he wanted made her hold the power over him. While it may seem that he had more power on the outside, the one thing that he can’t gain from her is her love and compassion. She may have started to tolerate him after a while, but she promised herself that if there ever came a point where she started to enjoy the abuse, she would kill herself. Therefore, in a final attempt to gain her love and control Alice, Rufus

Alice begins by startling at the sight of the Cat sitting on a tree bough, while the Cat only grins at Alice. As dear Alice asks for advice on which way she ought to continue, the Cat claims, “if you do not know where you want to end up, then surely it does not matter which way you go” (Carroll 49). This simplistic view of decision making plays on the complexity that humans weave into simple decisions of everyday life. Alice’s confusion is spotlighted by this overtly simple take on decisions, and her confusion can then be tied to the absence of a concrete identity. The Cat proceeds to reveal that in Wonderland, “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad,” and this awareness and acceptance of “the fury” within himself further serves to bold Alice’s insecurity (Carroll 49). Perhaps, if Alice knew who she was to others – and to herself – in Wonderland, she would not deny the madness of Wonderlands creatures, including

is a battle that Alice can win, but sometimes as much as you want something, the

Lewis Carroll's use of puns and riddles in Alice in Wonderland help set the theme and tone. He uses word play in the book to show a world of warped reality and massive confusion. He uses such play on words to reveal the underlying theme of ‘growing up', but with such an unusual setting and ridiculous characters, there is need for some deep analyzing to show this theme. The book contains many examples of assonance and alliteration to add humor. Carroll also adds strange diction and extraordinary syntax to support the theme.

“Please play chess with me”, was the first message I sent her, pretending to be tame by requesting permission. Later, I moved on to trying to boost her ego, deploying a strategy similar to that of Odysseus when he tells Antinous, “you’re hardly the worst Achaean here, it seems. The noblest one, in fact. You look like a king to me.” (XVII, 458-460) I told her, “everyone who goes to your school is smart” and “I know that you are great at chess”. My plan was to uplift her confidence so that she gives the information that I desire. However, Alice caught on to what I was planning to do and retaliated. “You’re so adorable! And pretty too! You are like the most beautiful person ever!”, she replied. This was funny until she spoiled my plan when she