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incompetent, absurd, and only a pack of cards after all (Hubbell 109)."  In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Carroll shows the ridiculous nature of adults through his extraordinary characters. The amiable Cheshire Cat is the only character to help Alice in her struggle through Wonderland and admit that he is mad. "Oh you can't help that, we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad (Carroll )." All other characters are pointlessly didactic and feel the need to constantly snap at her, preach to her, confuse

more in keeping with the middle class Victorian world in which Carroll lived. The tale plays with logic giving the story lasting image with adults as well as with children. Its narrative course and structure, characters and imagery have been hugely influenced in both popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy part. It is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre. Our author Lewis Carroll is actually a name he chose as his author name as his pen name

“There are times in the lives of most of us, when we would have given all the world to be as we were but yesterday, though that yesterday had passed over us unappreciated and unenjoyed.” – William Edward Hartpole Lecky THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS When my dad passed away last July, it was tough. It was halfway through the summer, I had just graduated from high school, and I was preparing to embark on the exciting and nerve-wracking journey that is college. All the while, I was living life in my own

organized and orderly rabbit. Overall, Rabbit is most often seen as the rule-following helper throughout the books. 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

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

the world am I? Ah, THAT 'S the great puzzle! '” (Carroll) This quote is from the author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll. He was man that had a passion for many different professions and hobbies. Carroll did not let one profession define him. Every day he decided who he wanted to be and how he was going to express himself. Most people in the nineteenth century were not lucky enough to get to do what they loved every day, like Carroll was able to do. He discovered not only what he

in creating the Victorian novel as well as its sequel. The question that now stands because of this is, how involved was John Tenniel to the Alice novels? While the world best knows Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland best due to the words of Lewis Carroll, it is nothing without the visual representations and influences by Sir John Tenniel. Tenniel’s beginnings start when he was born in London in the year 1820. In his youth, he has done a great many things, including attending the British Royal Academy

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

classic tale Alice in Wonderland, a small, adventurous girl by the name of Alice stumbles through a world created in the depths of her imagination: Wonderland. While the nonsensical characters and seemingly insane laws of nature distract our minds, Carroll weaves a theme into the story's fabric with miniscule hints, easy to miss. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland exhibits a sort of duality; its purpose appears to be the entertainment of the masses, all the while disguising a penetrating and emotional

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