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    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 is one of the three children Carroll was watching for his colleague. He told the story while going down

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    lead you there.” (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll) Lewis Carroll, a well-known children’s author, wrote many stories but he is most famous for his creative book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. In this tale, a seven-year-old girl named Alice falls asleep and enters a magical yet strange world. Lewis wrote this book to entertain all ages especially children. Although symbolism can be discovered in all stories, Lewis Carroll wrote Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland solely for entertainment

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    Lewis Carroll’s novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and the popular film The Matrix use primary colors to depict concepts of paracosm in order to portray parallel journeys from uncertainty and doubt to acceptance. As the novel Alice in Wonderland commences, Alice is portrayed as an innocent young girl in a simple blue dress and bow. In the first chapter of the

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    The Fall Down the Rabbit Hole Seven-year-old Alice 's curiosity leads her to follow a white rabbit down a hole into Wonderland, a magical realm permeated by nonsense and irrationality. Alice 's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll tells of the escapades of a bored, curious, and innocent young girl as she ventures into Wonderland, a world made up entirely by her imagination. Madness and rudeness govern the kingdom. During her journey, Alice faces one of the most difficult struggles in adolescence:

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    In the novella “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland the themes “Exploration,” “Madness,” and “Identity” are evident throughout. Throughout this essay, I will be telling you about the themes and how they link to Alice. Exploration is portrayed through “Alice.” “Alice” is a curious, young girl who lives in the Victorian times, she loves exploring and has lots of energy. The first thing “Alice” explores is the “rabbit hole.” But “Alice” wouldn’t have explored the “rabbit hole,” if it had not have been

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    Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has entertained not only children but adults for over one hundred years. The tale has become a treasure of philosophers, literary critics, psychoanalysts, and linguists. It also has attracted Carroll's fellow mathematicians and logicians. There appears to be something in Alice for everyone, and there are almost as many explanations of the work as there are commentators. It may be perhaps Carroll's fantastical style of writing that entertains the reader

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    with characters who go on grand adventures or experiences a sense of freedom. This can be seen in two novels, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, written by Lewis Carroll, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, written by Robert Lewis Stevenson. The two books are a good representation of madness and how, in a way, the Victorian culture and expectation drove the main characters to go mad and their use of potions, pills and drugs. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, was a children’s book written

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    the dream to shift, ultimately leading to her wake up. This ending is not meant to seem like a fight against good and evil, as there technically are no ‘good’ or ‘evil’ characters in Wonderland as there is no morality. There is only logic and the lack of logic. It is the characters that defy logic that are Alice’s opponents. (Bush) At the end, as well as throughout the novel, Alice attempts to defeat the irrational with logic. Carroll must have seen this last scene as a necessary addition to the

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    Walt Disney’s first attempted to produce “Alice in Wonderland” in the 1930’s. Like Alice, he had a dream. Both dreams knew no bounds and discovered that the only thing certain is uncertainty. Alice in Wonderland was the 13th animation that Disney ever produced. Thirteen is thought of as an unlucky number, a symbol of rebellion and lawlessness which suits the context of this novel perfectly, especially considering its initial unpopularity. Why we dream is one of the biggest unanswered questions of

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    fantasy tales for the Liddell children. In 1862 Carroll began writing Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the main character being based on Alice Liddell .the Novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was then published in 1865. Historical information about the period   Annan 2 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is

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