Odyssey is an archetypal journey story that has been replicated in various ways by writers. Lewis Carroll’s book, Alice in Wonderland, and Mary Shelley’s book, Frankenstein incorporate nature in their stories. The ability to adapt to the force of nature gives the main character control over their life. In Lewis Carroll’s book, Alice in Wonderland, though Alice needed help from the mouse, Alice was rude to the mouse. And though she did said to not acknowledge the cat anymore, she kept on saying it. This
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Alice In Wonderland, a very well known story written in the 1860’s. With many adaptations of this story today we are going to focus on the version created by the mighty Tim Burton. This film casted many popular actors/actresses such as Mia Wasikowska, Anne Hathaway and Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter which come as no surprise since Tim Burton usually casts Johnny and Helena in most of his films. Overall, Tim Burton has a reputation for being weird, wacky and very unusual. These characteristics
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Adventures in Wonderland (1872), the caterpillar, and his place in the story, has become one of the most recognizable and frequently imitated aspects of the tale. Walt Disney brought its version of Carroll’s story to the silver screen in 1951 in its animated film Alice in Wonderland. With its expertise in animation Disney was able to take Carroll’s narrative to the level of the fantastic that the author had envisioned when composing Alice. Within the confines of the scene between Alice and the Caterpillar
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Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, best known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, has written many novels, poems, and short stories in his lifetime but his most famous for his children's “nonsense” novels: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and the sequel Through the Looking Glass. His works, especially the two mentioned, have influenced countless readers over the years, and references to his writings can be found in every type of media from the song “White Rabbit” by Jefferson Airplane to the the Matrix
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The novel 'Alice in wonderland’, written by Lewis Caroll is considered to be one of the best example of the literary nonsense genre. Disney has successfully it into a cartoon in 1951. In this video clip we can see Alice seeing Mad Hatter and March Hare in a tea party, all though there are many chairs and tables, there were no one except them. Alice also wanted to join the tea party with them, but when Mad Hatter and March Hare saw her, they said her that’s there's no room for her ,although
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vibrant streak of starlight in the black night. Individuality makes you the distinctive duckling in the crowd of adorable chicks. Yet is “different” truly such an atrocious thing? Tim Burton--renowned director and producer of movies such as Alice in Wonderland, Edward Scissorhands, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory--rebels against this common assumption by revolving his cinematic works around the importance of uniqueness. Inspired by Ray Harryhausen classic horror films and Roger Corman’s Vincent
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that she’s dancing away the blues? (No way!) She’s neither the ‘Lady in red’, nor is she ‘the girl next door’… She’s just another victim of the ‘Alice in Wonderland Syndrome’; dreaming her secret dreams, craving her secret life…” Why are we afraid of admitting that we are day-dreamers? Why are we unwilling to accept that there’s a little bit of ‘Alice’ or ‘Walter Mitty’ in each of us? Do we fear what people would think of us; how they would laugh behind our backs; or is it simply the pre-conceived
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Alice is quite an ordinary young girl; she comes from a wealthy family, has an older sister, lives in England – therefore having traits an average main character does. What most people don’t realize however is that Alice is based off of a real girl in Carroll’s life. The story was written while on a boat ride with the Liddell family (Smith 5). Henry Liddell was the Dean of Christ Church, where Carroll attended the majority of his schooling; at the time Liddell was appointed, his daughter Alice was
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thoughts came to mind. At first I was confused. “What is a Socratic Seminar?” I thought. Second, “this could help my grade”. Finally I said to myself “this is going to be fun”. The nights leading up to the seminar I read through the question and Alice in Wonderland, searching for quotes and evidence to answer the questions given out. In my opinion I found some quality quotes to answer questions that supported my interpretation of the text. Walking in the first day of the seminar I was ecstatic. I had
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whirling from doctors’ offices to specialists and back again, I was prohibited from doing the very things which kids like to do and instead found my enjoyment in books. I can still recall the first time I cracked the spine of Lewis Carol’s “Alice in Wonderland” and the sense of calm that overtook my body as I lost myself in the delightful absurdity of his writing. I read his books and poems, along with many other works at a time when I was in constant pain from my chronic illness. Being an introverted
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