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Fantasy tales have no limits or boundaries making them unique, unpredictable and open to interpretation. fantasy has no limit “the difficulty in finding material that is both new and true increases drastically”- page40 fantasy does not tell us what we should think of characters but allows us to interpret them ourselves. Just as Alice, who is about to be decapitated by the Queen of Hearts, finally shouts out, “‘Who cares for you? . . . You’re nothing but a pack of cards!’” “queer things are everywhere

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

of Alice and Peter Pan. Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan present their own unique stories with "the fantastical" which entertain many for generations to come. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll follows the young girl Alice down the rabbit hole to Wonderland where she meets the different creatures of Wonderland. One of

Literature has always been a window into life during a particular time frame. Fiction and nonfiction alike will give its readers a glimpse of the lives of those of varying social statuses, along with the culture and politics of the time. This remains true regardless of the period in which a work was written. From the Romantic era to the 20th Century, literature has been skilled at providing understanding of others and their lives. For example, from the Romantic period works like the two William Wordsworth

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then”(Lewis Carroll). Alice in the wonderland is a fantasy world Alice enters after falling in a hole for a long time. In her Illusion world she meets different types of creatures talking, singing and dancing. In her imaginary world, Alice notices potions and edible objects that say “eat me” or “drink me” which specifies a significant theme that interprets the fantasy of Alice, which also connects with the different sized animals

We’re All Mad Here by Phyllis Stowell is a fascinating read about the metaphoric process in which Alice grows up in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The article considers what Alice lived through in Victorian England and what a typical seven year old would contend with to harness her own emotions. There was a Victorian social code, which was hypocritical in that it had an attitude of, which conflicted with Alice’s behavior and those around her. Alice had to learn to separate herself

“Alice came to a fork in the road. ‘Which road do I take?’ she asked. ‘Where do you what to go?’ responded the Cheshire cat. ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the cat, ‘It doesn’t matter.” Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland. This is a quote from Alice and Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, as said before. Basically what happens in the quote was Alice started walking and then came to a fork in the road. Now, she does not know her way around Wonderland, so she sees this cat and says to herself

to Alice at all. What is worse, changes in her body sizes make Alice feel confused about her identity. When the Caterpillar asks Alice to explain herself, she answers, “I can’t explain myself, I’m afraid, sir, … because I’m not myself, you see” (Carroll, 60). But Alice does not give up her journey. She keeps her temper and adapts to her surroundings calmly. As Alice continues her adventure flexibly, she establishes her identity. Therefore, Alice stands up for herself on the unfair trial of the Queen

Throughout The Matrix there is a multitude of evidence that this movie was influenced by other texts, for example Alice in Wonderland. When comparing these two stories together a sense of self in two different realities emerge, one in the real world and one in a dream world or in our case the Matrix where both can be changed. When Morpheus makes allusion to Neo going down the rabbit hole he is telling him that it will seem like a dream and that Neo as a person will change. Throughout the film Mr

“Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast” (Carroll 5). Charles Dodgson, the author of two of the most famous children’s books in the world, was a very peculiar man. He wrote under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. Carroll is famous for writing Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There. Much of Dodgson’s characteristics and life experiences influenced how he composed his novels. Before Dodgson began writing novels, he wrote