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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
(1865)
Originally published as Alice's Adventures Under Ground.
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One summer day Alice was sitting on the riverbank with her older sister. Alice’s sister was reading a book and Alice noticed that the book didn’t have any pictures, which made Alice lose interest in it. Then as she looked out into the meadow, she saw something very peculiar. She saw a large white rabbit running past her looking at his watch saying “Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late.” Then he popped down a rabbit hole. Alice, being the curious girl she was, followed the rabbit down that hole and found herself in a land with many wonders. It was a wonderland. She met some interesting creatures including the King and Queen of Hearts, the Hatter, and the March Hare. She found that many creatures in this land didn’t have the best of tempers and didn’t want to try to help Alice figure out where to go and what to do. Alice also found herself changing sizes after eating or drinking things she found. One minute she was a few inches tall and the next she was nine feet tall. When Alice was in this land she expected the unexpected and didn’t think much of the unusual occurrences. She used her knowledge to help other people, such as when she made sense of evidence during a trial. As much as Alice thought it interesting being with these strange creatures and trying to get along with them, she wondered when she would return home to her normal life or if she would. She remembered her cat and dreamed of seeing him again. But was there a way to get out or was it all just a dream?
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The Duchess: A Good Egg or a Bad Beater? I think that if there was supposed to be symbolism in the Duchess it was this: The Duchess symbolized lower nobles. They feared the royals, but nothing else. They ignored the outcries of those that worked for them (i.e. The Cook throwing plates and stuff and the Duchess ignoring it), and how she beat her baby was meant to say something about how, though they seemed to be ridiculously strict with their children, in the end, their offspring ended up being pigs anyway. However, what was the point of her owning the Cheshire Cat? And what about the pepper? Did it also serve a purpose?
Posted By EdgarCarroll13 at Tue 11 Jul 2006, 1:57 AM in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland || 1 Reply
Film adaptations of Alice in Wonderland
What are people's opinions of the various film adaptations of this book? do they truley capture the magic of the text? i would be interested in seeing peoples opinions on this :nod:
Posted By ashaleena at Fri 10 Feb 2006, 7:36 AM in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland || 1 Reply
Language Of Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
How do the characters use language to display agression in Lewis Carrol's verson? Also, on what does the king and queens authority lie? This is all very confusing to me....any help would be greatly appreciated! thanks!!!!!
Posted By jashimala at Thu 13 Oct 2005, 8:57 AM in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland || 1 Reply
Original Alice work in 3D online
The original manuscript of what became Alice in Wonderland has been put online by the British Library using software to virtually turn the pages. Alice's Adventures Under Ground, by Lewis Carroll, is the latest 3D addition to the Library's Turning the Pages collection of books. Using Flash technology, the manuscript can be virtually "handled", while audio is played simultaneously. Fourteen rare books and manuscripts are now in the Turning Pages collection. Alice joins the Diamond Sutra, Jane Austen's History of England, the Leonardo Notebook, the Lindisfarne Gospels and the Mercator Atlas of Europe among others. The Lindisfarne Gospels were the first of the British Library delicate and rare manuscripts to go digital in 1998. Since then, the page-turning technology to make the books more "real" online has been refined. The technology gives the public a chance to almost touch works which would otherwise be untouchable inside glass cabinets. Actress Miriam Margolyes has provided the optional voiceover to go with the virtual Alice manuscript. The realistic page-turning application won a technical achievement award at the 2005 Learning on Screen Awards in March. It uses 3D animation which mimics the action of turning pages, making the book much more tangible. Close ups The pages of the book can be browsed by the click of a mouse or by scrolling through each page individually. The program also means readers can enlarge text as well as see the original illustrations in the manuscript. Alice joins 14 other precious works that use the page turning software In the original Alice manuscript, Carroll included the first sketch of Alice Liddell who provided the inspiration for Alice in his books. It was drawn in pencil from a photo of Alice aged seven but he was not satisfied with the sketch so replaced it with a photo of Alice instead. In 1977, the pencil drawing was rediscovered hidden under the photo. The virtual 90-page virtual manuscript contains all 37 original illustrations. The British Library Turning the Pages books are also on display on library computers in Northumberland, UK, and in the National Library of Medicine near Washington, USA. Turning the Pages: http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4268408.stm
Posted By Scheherazade at Thu 22 Sep 2005, 2:20 PM in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland || 0 Replies
An Amazing work of fiction full of unseen depth
I am continually amazed by Lewis Carroll. His books, though written for children contain a certain symbolism and satire that can be appreciated by adults as well. His imagination is amazing and his ideas are simplistic and profound.
Posted By David Bauer at Tue 24 May 2005, 6:07 PM in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland || 0 Replies
No Subject
The book is very interesting. There are a lot of funny things.
Posted By Wendy at Tue 24 May 2005, 6:07 PM in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland || 0 Replies
it's brain racking
actually i enjoyed reading it. it's confusing if u don't get it, but most of the events have something behind it. it takes a lot of time to discover what they are. now i know why not all kids fancy this novel. it's too complicated for young thinkers but once u see the meaning behind it, it's really amazing. it somehow relates to life. and that's really something in disguise!
Posted By raesh_11 at Tue 24 May 2005, 6:07 PM in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland || 0 Replies
it's brain racking
actually i enjoyed reading it. it's confusing if u don't get it, but most of the events have something behind it. it takes a lot of time to discover what they are. now i know why not all kids fancy this novel. it's too complicated for young thinkers but once u see the meaning behind it, it's really amazing. it somehow relates to life. and that's really something in disguise!
Posted By Unregistered at Wed 16 Apr 2003, 1:00 AM in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland || 1 Reply
connection to society
Alice in Wonderland remains a classic, read by students all throughout the united states. The reason for its popularity and high rank today, is because of the books ingeneousness...if that's a word. There were so many ties to the economy and society of the time. When alice cries herself a pool of tears, and the mouse begins telling a very boring (other wise known as DRY) story...get it? Then the dodo bird, which "lewis carrol" modeled after himself, offers the idea of a caucus race. The caucus race in the book is a useless game, in which everyone runs in circles and gets nowhere. A caucus race is also a term used for the process in which a political party elects there candidate! Thus, "lewis" is saying that 1. the caucus race is pointless (to dry up means to become pointless..get it...haha!) and 2. Politics is stupid as well. At this time where "lewis" was living, children as young as three would be put to work. Adults would put children to work, not caring about developing them or their health, so that they could make money. Later, people began to comet o their senses and child labor laws were set. The Chesire cat...never tells alice what to do, and helps her to think for herself in the way he answers her questions. The Chesire cat represents the movement that begins to come to life, where more and more children books are being created for simply pleasure. There are many poems that Alice repeats and hears...that are variations from other poems. the poems alice repeats have a much more sinister tone and darker mood to them. The mad hatter is closely related to a man which "lewis" new...who got his name the "mad hatter" from his hat selling but mainly for his eccentric ideas. he was also big on inventions of time, and created an alarm clock, and presented it to the royal court in which the bed would spring up at a certain time, sending you sprawled along the floor. this could be why the mad hatter was so obbsessed with awaking the mouse at the tea party. Also, "lewis"'s friend the mad hatter is quoted, saying that a stopped watch is more accurate than a watch a minute slow, for the slow watch would only be exactly accurate every 50 years or so as a stopped watch would be accurate every 12 hours. This could be why the mad hatter says that time got mad at him and stopped, thus he must always drink tea. lewis' tea party is so wild and outrageous, as opposed to "tea time" during that era, that lewis may be saying that tea time is a useless and silly concept. The queen at the time, Victoria (this book is written during the victorian time...the "stuffy" of the ages...as everything was very fancy) may resemble the queen of hearts herself in the book. there are so many other ties, its astonoshing...the conspiracy about lewis on drugs while writing the book is possible, though the story is so incredible...it may seem unlikely. (and yes...i know the book was oral before written>)
Posted By monique at Tue 24 May 2005, 6:07 PM in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland || 2 Replies
Wonderland and Looking Glass
If you look at the history of how the story came to be, Lewis Carroll was just telling the story to three little girls (one of which happened to be Alice Liddell the other two her sisters Edith and Lorina) whom lived very regimented lives. The father of the three girls taught Greek at Oxford University in England, and Carroll (Charles Dodgson) taught Mathematics. There was not much room for nonsense in the lives of these three little girls, so in telling stories to them Carroll created the nonsense for them. This way the children could be children. You must remember being a child once, think about some of the things Alice says to herself. She is a little girl forced to live in a grown-up world and be practical. These two stories (The Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass) are just escapes for Alice and her two sisters. They are not really some drug induced psychotic episode. These stories have entertained children for generations and continue to do so. I am glad that Lewis Carroll created them. By the way, one last comment, the original illustrations by Sir John Tenniel are excellent.
Posted By Jim Egged at Tue 24 May 2005, 6:07 PM in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland || 1 Reply