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    his symbolism and origin is the Cheshire Cat. In the story the Cheshire Cat is a mysterious character. He appeared when he choose to and disappeared a moment later. He had an odd sense of a personality, but spoke to Alice using wise words and thoughts. “It is not 100% clear why Carroll named this character ‘Cheshire Cat’. “To grin like a Cheshire Cat” was a common phrase in Carroll’s day. Its origin is unknown, but it may have originated from a sign painter in Cheshire, who painted grinning lions on

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    to this confusion of identity is the Cheshire Cat, who shows an uncanny awareness of his own madness, giving him considerable control over his presence and allowing him to occasionally leave only a grin behind. Alice, contrarily, is strewn all over as she loses herself in Wonderland. In Wonderland, all are “mad,” but to Alice this is preposterous, even as she fails to explain who she is – both to herself and to others. Carroll’s juxtaposition of the Cheshire Cat and Alice in their first meeting scene

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    Introduction: In Disney’s Alice in Wonderland, a twenty-year-old girl named Alice Kingsley experiences very strange dreams ever since she was child. She dreams of a smiling cat, a white rabbit in a waist coat, a blue caterpillar and much more unusual things. At her surprise engagement party, Alice was walking in the garden when she noticed something strange. To her surprise, she saw a white rabbit in a waist coat that looked exactly like the one in her dreams. Suddenly, Alice becomes overwhelmed

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    unpredictable events and changes that are irreversible. Alice stumbles across the Cheshire Cat who portrays the opposite of growing up as he believes taking short cuts are better than asking for advice. The Chesire cat exclaims to Alice, “Then it doesn’t matter which way you go” (Carroll 49). The metaphor from the Cheshire Cat resulted from Alice asking about visiting the Mad Hatter. In this case, The Cheshire Cat is a representation of taking the easy route and not visiting the mad hatter,

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    A hookah smoking caterpillar sitting on a mushroom, a pepper-loving duchess with a big head and the main character, a young girl who follows a rabbit down his hole, are a few of the weird and fantastic characters in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. In book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Alice portrays bad judgement. A few of the things that happened in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland were unbelievable. While writing Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carrol had a fantastical

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    The Mathematical Aspects of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland The story Alice in Wonderland was written about a little girl named Alice who was a child of the dean of the Church of Christ. Alice Liddell was the one who convinced Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) to write down the verbal story originally known as "Alice's Adventure Underground".Actually, the book is known by several different names, Alice's Hours in Elfand,Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Alice in Wonderland.I found it interesting

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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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    Alice’s Adventures of Unhallowed Depths The Lone Wanderer She had been warned about the book once before, but still, through her immense curiosity, she hastily decided to dismiss the warnings. Her choices had now been etched in the past, now it was too late! There was not that could change what is to come for our poor Alice. At the touch of Alice’s hand the book now looking increasingly more dreadful the longer she stared. She tried to look away but her gaze was affixed on the ghastly tomb. Suddenly

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    The Looking Glass Wars

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    first book in his trilogy The Looking Glass Wars. Many of us are familiar with the infamous fairy tale of Alice who stumbles upon a hole that leads her to Wonderland and meets strange characters like the Cheshire Cat and others. Now there are many differences in Beddor’s tale; not only is the Cat an assassin with nine lives but Alice-the character we grew up knowing-has a different name, Alyss Heart. She is a young girl whose kingdom of Wonderland is taken over by her blood thirsty and cruel Aunt

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    Introduction: In Disney’s Alice in Wonderland, a twenty-year-old girl named Alice Kingsley experiences very strange dreams ever since she was a child. She dreams of a smiling cat, a white rabbit in a waistcoat, a blue caterpillar and much more unusual things. At her surprise engagement party, Alice was walking in the garden when she noticed something strange. To her surprise, she saw a white rabbit in a waistcoat that looked exactly like the one in her dreams. Suddenly, Alice becomes overwhelmed

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