...read The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland, written by Lewis Carroll. Alice follows a rabbit down a hole and escapes to a crazy world full of talking animals, living playing cards and disappearing smiling cats. Often literature that is so far off from real life, it trying to symbolize problems with the real world. maybe not. If Lewis Carroll doing this in Alice? Perhaps, but The popular scene in chapter 5 at the Mad Hatter’s tea party shows 3 themes that could symbolize something in real life. Three possible symbolic themes from the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party include: nonsense, rudeness, and meanness. Nonsense is used without the book, but at the tea party. Toward the end of the party the March Hare tells Alice to take the some more tea. She replies that she can’t take more because she hasn’t had any yet. The Hatter jumps in and replies “ You can’t take less, it is very easy to take more than nothing.” That was obviously a nonsense statement. Another nonsense part of the tea party is when they are talking about the purpose of a watch. After Alice points out how strange March Hare’s watch is in that is tells the day of the month but not the time, the Hatter jumps in and asks “Why should it? Does your watch tell what year it is?” Alice tries to explain that a year lasts a long time and you don’t need a watch to know the year. The Hatter again replies with nonsense Xxxxxxx 2 saying, “Which is just the case with mine.” Alice knows the Hatter is speaking...
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...films one his most recent ones being “Alice in Wonderland”. Tim has many techniques that are unique to his personal style that are shown in this film. Not only the way that this was filmed, but also the idea of the film is distinct to Burton’s director techniques. Burton made a film off the movie Alice in Wonderland, and put his own spin on things, Alice revisits wonderland 13 years later, revisiting her old friends and realizing her true destiny. Alice is caught between two worlds, the real world and her dream world, that she later learns that both worlds had interlocking meanings. You can tell that Tim directed this film, because of the settings, themes, and special affects. This movie is a very enjoyable one. Tim Burton did an excellent job of directing. Alice realizes at her engagement party that its not meant for her to get married, she follows a bunny into a hole leading her to under land, not remembering that she had been there in the past. Her old friends aren’t sure if it’s the real Alice or not because she is so much older, but after she starts to go along with it, she is able to defeat the Red Queen and become the savior. Although, her friends don’t want her to leave, she returns back to the real world and takes what she learned from under land back with her. Tim Burton movies are one of a kind mainly because of his settings. He is known for always having dark, dreary settings, which is clearly shown in Alice in Wonderland. Most of the scenes are gloomy and dull...
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...truly believe that Alice in Wonderland is a story of youth coming to adulthood and the many decisions and obstacles that we must face as we step foot into the adult world. Going "down the rabbit hole" has become a familiar allegory, symbolizing everything from exploring a new world to taking drugs to exploring anything unknown. In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland the rabbit hole is the place where it all starts, a gateway to...
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...If you have ever read or watched the movie Alice in Wonderland you most likely asked yourself: what would be like to become Alice?? The movie is pocketed with unusual illusions that seem to have underlying meanings. Some people experience a physiological disorder as is depicted in this story on a daily basis. By describing the psychological definition of Todd’s syndrome, symptoms, and why it is important to discuss I hope to make you familiar with a rare disorder so it be publically known. Some suffer from a syndrome of hallucinations similar to the story Alice in Wonderland called Todd’s syndrome or more commonly: Alice in Wonderland syndrome. Some with this condition may experience episodes of it several times in a day. According to UPMC’s...
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...Based on the steps provided according to Ross, Alice (Alice in Wonderland) does complete a hero’s journey. “It leads to the heroine in the direction of personal growth and control over her surroundings. Alice learns how to manage her size. How to talk back to a queen and, finally how to wear a crown of adulthood” (Ross, 2004). In other words, Alice goes on an adventure that helps her transform into a new person and by the end of the adventure she is rewarded. In Alice in Wonderland, Alice’s ordinary world that is seen in the end of the film is her in her backyard just having a tea party with her sister. Alice’s call to adventure is when she sees the Rabbit and follows him down the Rabbit hole. Alice’s refusal to call was when she started eating the foods not realizing she is not...
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...Femininity in Disney film "Alice in Wonderland" Leanne Lo Does 'femininity' show what it means to be as a woman in Disney film? The issue of gender does not necessarily show the original meaning of femininity in the Disney film "Alice in Wonderland" in 2010. This film is an American computer-animated and live action film by director Tim Burton, which gets its ideas from the British novel "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll in 1865 and its 1871 sequel "Through the Looking-Glass". The story tells about the latest adventure of the main character Alice Kingsleigh to Underland, where she visited thirteen years ago when she was six. At that time the Underland (or Wonderland as Alice calls it) was the White Queen's reign, but now being controlled by her easily-irritated sister the Red Queen who hates animals and uses them as servants. Alice is foretold to be the only one who can slay the dragon-like creature Jabberwocky which is controlled by the Red Queen who terrorizes Underland's inhabitants, and finally with her courage restores the White Queen to power. The film Alice in Wonderland has showed different meaning of femininity by the three main characters Alice, the Red Queen , and the White Queen, who play other than traditional gender roles of women as expected by the society. Like Alice who is brave to confront the society's expectations of a young woman by being strong and courageous to choose her own life. Also, the Red Queen and the White Queen have shown...
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...The British Political Reflection through The Westminster Alice by Saki, The Parody of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland Lecturer: Dr. Novita Dewi, M.S., M.A (Hons) by: Miranda A. R Siregar Student Number: 136332007 THE GRADUATE PROGRAM IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE STUDIES SANATA DHARMA UNIVERSITY YOGYAKARTA 2014 The British Political Reflection through The Westminster Alice by Saki, The Parody of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland I. Introduction Alice and the adventure in wonderland and Alice through the looking glass are the master pieces of literary work by Lewis Carroll. The characters in the story, particularly Alice herself become such an iconic character. Alice is basically a girl who has a high imagination and able to see the world differently, out of general border. We may discover several works based on Alice in wonderland, from the day the story was published until this present time. There are a lot of books and movies that inspired by Alice. In this essay, I would like to discuss is “The Westminster Alice” by Hector Hugo Munro (Saki) in 1902, The specialty of this book is so much different from any other work adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, which most of them are actually similar story or the adult version of Alice. This book is a parody of British politic based on Alice in Wonderland character. The Westminster Alice is the name of a collection of vignettes written by Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) in 1902 and published...
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...* Page: 3 Para: 1-“Once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?'” * Page: 4 Para: 3-“For, you see, Alice had learnt several things of this sort in her lessons in the school-room, and though this was not a very good opportunity for showing off her knowledge, as there was no one to listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over.” * Page: 6 Para: 3-“Alice was not going to do that in a hurry.”No, I'll look first," she said, "and see whether it's marked 'poison' or not"; for she had read several nice little stories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts, and other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them.” * Page: 7 Para: 2-"Come, there's no use in crying like that!" said Alice to herself rather sharply. "I advise you to leave off this minute!" She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes.” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Pg.3: When I was a little girl, I used think books with out pictures were boring. Now that I’m older books with pictures bore me and books without pictures make me excited because I can use my imagration...
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...Have you ever wondered about the mysterious world of Wonderland? Many people believe that Wonderland is a place individuals think of in order to escape from reality in the real world. In the movies Alice in Wonderland and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, there are magical places that individuals wonder to throughout his or her journey. Alice from Alice in Wonderland and Jake from Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children both share similar experiences such as the entrance into the land of the peculiar, purpose of journey, and mentors/ allies. First, both Alice and Jake share similar experiences because of the purpose of their journey. Alice’s purpose throughout Wonderland was to track down a sword...
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...Assignment 2: Alice In Wonderland 1. Comment on Emma’s different approach As a Managing Director of Luijk & Van Vaest in December 1995, a Dutch company in the parcel shipping business, she does not have experience in the shipping line. In the first day, she starts her presentation and wanted to build trust in her team. Her suggestion is to encourage people or employee to trust her. Besides, she has suggested some ways to build up trustee between each other. Walking The Talk Emma as a new Managing Director of L&VV, she plans to meet every level of staffs as many as she can, understand and listen to them, talk to them as well. Furthermore, she travelled around the country to all the local sub regions and talk with the management teams. She needs them to talk with her everything, what is the future of a company, what was wrong for the past and what should be changed. She work with parcel sorting personnel in the hubs and terminals to understand their needs and what is their comments on L&VV. Every time she has a regional meeting, she will walk around to the regional terminal before half an hour early and talk with the people on the shop floor. Since has many visiting, the people on the shop floor turned out to be very educational and practical. Feelings Are Facts Another of Emma’s early moves was Emma reshape her management team and needed to trust each other completely. Otherwise, Emma emphasizes the importance of a group as a real team in functioning...
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...change a few times since then.” –Alice in Wonderland “I knew who I was this morning, but I’ve change a few times since then.” –Alice in Wonderland “I knew who I was this morning, but I’ve change a few times since then.” –Alice in Wonderland “I knew who I was this morning, but I’ve change a few times since then.” –Alice in Wonderland “I knew who I was this morning, but I’ve change a few times since then.” –Alice in Wonderland “I knew who I was this morning, but I’ve change a few times since then.” –Alice in Wonderland “I knew who I was this morning, but I’ve change a few times since then.” –Alice in Wonderland “I knew who I was this morning, but I’ve change a few times since then.” –Alice in Wonderland “I knew who I was this morning, but I’ve change a few times since then.” –Alice in Wonderland “I knew who I was this morning, but I’ve change a few times since then.” –Alice in Wonderland “I knew who I was this morning, but I’ve change a few times since then.” –Alice in Wonderland “I knew who I was this morning, but I’ve change a few times since then.” –Alice in Wonderland “I knew who I was this morning, but I’ve change a few times since then.” –Alice in Wonderland “I knew who I was this morning, but I’ve change a few times since then.” –Alice in Wonderland “I knew who I was this morning, but I’ve change a few times since then.” –Alice in Wonderland “I knew who I was this morning, but I’ve change a few times since then.” –Alice in Wonderland “I knew who I was this morning...
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...Lewis Carroll’s book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland the main character Alice, goes through a variety of size changes that can be compared to her transition from childhood into adulthood. Alice stumbles into a rabbit hole as an innocent 7-year-old girl who discovers her identity crisis and who leaves Wonderland as a mature young adult with nothing more but the memories of the “dream of Wonderland” (Carroll 110). We can see Alice’s struggle to identify herself as her body size keeps changing just like a kid who is going through puberty, she does not know what to expect next. These experiences provide Alice with a different perspective on Wonderland and lead her to a maturing process from the crying, stubborn Alice in the beginning to the self-powered Alice who stood up for herself in the final trial. The transition has been represented in some of the different adaptations the book has had. Although Alice’s size changes in Carroll's text Alice in Wonderland illustrate her maturation, in both Disney's (1951) and Jan Svankmajer's adaptations, size changes do not emphasize maturation; they have a different purpose. Alice grew and shrunk throughout various scenes in both adaptations, but at the end of both movies she remained the same childish Alice that once stumbled upon a rabbit hole. Both adaptations emphasize Alice’s childishness in order to attract a larger audience, but at the same time a younger audience that can relate with what Alice is going through. Figure 1: (Leavens) ...
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...Adventures in Wonderland, Alice goes through many physcial changes. In this journey, the human body continually undergoes pattern of physical, mental, and social changes.Lewis Carrol's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland which is a land of wonders of strange creatures doing weird things. Alice's imagination takes her through a great journey, she visits wonderland and has a great deal of changes occur in her life by experiencing the wonders in wonderland. Throughout Alice's adventures, Alice cannot escape from the loneliness. She only had her cats to give her company, nobody else to talk to. She couldn't communicate to anyone about her feelings or anything. Alice felt out of place and did not have anyone to talk to and became sad very often. Which is completely natural when you don't have anyone to talk to and express your feelings, one feels disconnected from the world and it really messes up your brain because it very important let your feelings out to someone. The only person who showed some affection for Alice was the White Knight, who left her right when she reached the eighth square and she must become the Queen. Lonliness was a big part of Alice's life, but she believes lonliness is an important part of growing up, even in her dreams she faces womanhood alone. Whenever we look into a mirror we see ourself. Mirror images are our own reflections, they are the oppostite of what people see. You see what people see when they look at us in the mirror. In the story Alice sees the...
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...Alice Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll, is a story that certainly includes very eccentric characters. It is probable that many of us posses a mixture of some of the characters personalities. However it is likely that one of the characters exhibits personality traits closely resembling ours. Although I don’t consider myself as naïve as Alice, I believe I can resemble myself on Alice’s personality, mainly because of her kind heart and her courage to face strange situations. Although Alice felt hesitant at times to jump into new adventures, she was never afraid to try new experiences, characteristic I can easily relate to. I believe that for one to explore new experiences, it takes courage, and just as it happened to Alice, when jumping into new experiences/adventures we get to discover who we really are, and it help us mature. As much as we learn Alice Adventures where merely a dream, as reader we are able to perceive a sense of maturity in Alice by the end of the story. To me Life is full of adventures, perhaps one immense magnificent adventure, and the one thing is needed to succeed is have the willingness to adapt to unfamiliar situations. Being polite and courteous is all about being considerate and appreciative, even though it could be challenging for some people. I think of being polite and courteous as a quality of my own, or I at least I put much effort to accomplish being polite and courteous to others. Alice throughout her adventure showed her politeness and...
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...Twelve Mark Question How does Orwell manage to make surveillance seem a negative thing? Morrison makes the passage very negative by giving a one sided argument against the multitude of surveillance cameras. He shows his personal views giving the impression of negativity as this is the only source of feeling towards that particular person. ‘Made by a sinister Minister of Internal Repression.’ Using the shocking story of the suicide on BBC News tries to persuade the reader that surveillance is used as cruel bait for prime time television for the rest of the nation to gawp at this man’s final moments. The only argument (which is trying to give the reader little reason to decide if it is justifiable) against the passages main approach is written to explain furthermore the corruptness of CCTV. He states the Data Protection Act is a false veil that the government has given out as an attempt to show their information is valued. However this is not the case as Morrison says, it leaves the person with a bad record. ‘If you exercise this right you may find it difficult to get a job, credit card or a mortgage.’ This is also a rule of three to emphasise how many problems this can cause you. Morrison uses the size and control surveillance cameras have over our society as a negative remark. He uses many words to emphasise how already they are entering our own personal lives. Using the word ‘enormous’ shows the seriousness and intention of what he thinks the government are trying to do and...
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