At some point throughout childhood every child will experience a so called “scary” movie that causes nightmares and long sleepless nights. The movie that had this long lasting effect on me was Disney’s animated film, “Alice in Wonderland”. One notable aspect of “Alice in Wonderland” that contributed to my fear for the movie was the characters. Most Disney films have a mixture of good and evil characters; however, “Alice and Wonderland” primarily contains evil characters that are either constantly trying to kill Alice or simply leaving her to fend for herself. Additionally, most Disney films contain a certain character that portrays the scary, evil villain; in “Alice in Wonderland” nearly every character Alice comes across is somehow scary. …show more content…
One of the most frightening moments as a child was being in the supermarket and losing sight of my parents. You feel completely alone, surrounded by strangers, in an unfamiliar place. That same feeling I had standing in the supermarket all alone was the feeling I got when watching “Alice in Wonderland”, because throughout the entire movie Alice is lost in a scary unfamiliar place. At one point in the movie Alice burst into tears from the overwhelming feeling of being alone. She asks nearly every character she comes across for directions, but none are of any help. Another characteristic of the movie that was frightening to me were the loud obnoxious noises and the dark, eerie setting. It seemed that no scene went by without some creature making obscure noises, or protruding into Alice’s personal space. The Dark setting of “Alice in Wonderland” began in the beginning of the film where Alice was falling down a dark, seemingly endless, rabbit hole, leaving the audience of small children, like myself, fearfully wondering if Alice will be ok after such a long fall. What will she find once she does reach the bottom, and how will she make her way back up the rabbit hole to get home? These sorts of reoccurring questions about Alice’s safety and well-being are what made this movie so dreadful to watch. Alice is never safe from danger in “Wonderland” and she seems to get farther and farther away from finding her way
Alice in Wonderland starts when Alice “sees” a rabbit exclaiming it was going to be late. When Alice starts dreaming about the Wonderland it may have been a little strange, but she ends up realizing that it helps with her problems in the real world.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a story about a little girl who comes into contact with unpredictable, illogical, basically mad world of Wonderland by following the White Rabbit into a huge rabbit – hole. Everything she experiences there challenges her perception and questions common sense. This extraordinary world is inhabited with peculiar, mystical and anthropomorphic creatures that constantly assault Alice which makes her to question her fundamental beliefs and suffer an identity crisis. Nevertheless, as she woke up from “such a curious dream” she could not help but think “as well she might, what a wonderful dream it had been ”.
Alice in Wonderland is a Disney film that is different from all the others. It was released in 1951, similar to Cinderella, and helped the world get over the war. It is the 13th film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series and is one of Mr. Disney’s favorites. Alice is a bit younger than most female Disney characters, about seven or eight. Most of the other Disney movie’s offer a world where the character had no control on what was in it, however Alice gets to live in her own Wonderland. She is a very adventurous child and wants to discover what is around her, testing her imagination. Alice learns many lessons and values that most young children should learn and use in their own lives. Most of the Disney movies have many valuable lessons that can be related to everyday life.
Thus, Alice in Wonderland is a good illustration of a Hero’s Journey. This story allows us to see how Alice overcomes the three main phases, and most of the stages identified by Campbell in her journey-transformation from an undisciplined child to a wise young adult. Throughout the story, Alice overcomes the nonsense of the young and the old before she truly understands what adulthood is all about. All through her adventures in Wonderland, she encounters numerous new situations and meets different archetypes that are necessary for her to be considered a Hero.
The gender roles change from the original to the remake. The original Alice role is defined as a young girl who is able to explore her curiosity, but she is constrained by her feminine characteristics. Alice being a young girl is portrayed as helpless in many situations throughout her journey. The characters of Wonderland offer her assistance, but she remains most times crying by herself. Alice’s character clearly shows the innocence and virtue American society attached to girls roles in the
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In the 1951 movie, the environment before Alice went into the rabbit hole was very bland in colors, nothing really pops out or catches the audience’s attention. The environment is very strange just before Alice enters Wonderland. There are chimes, a fire place, books, lamps, a map of the world and a rocking chair all while she is falling down the rabbit hole. Then she has to enter through several strange small doors and enters into a multi colored room with squares on the walls and a small curtain with an even tinnier, locked door with a talking doorknob. The environment for when she enters into Wonderland is even stranger, there are singing sea animals in the ocean, and then she somehow manages to make it to a forest and is surrounded by oak trees. But then Alice gets to the White Rabbit’s house where the entire color scheme for the land is based off of pink. Then Alice eventually makes her way to the garden where she meets the talking flowers; the environment is very colorful and lively, there are some insects that don’t exist today that exist in Wonderland. The tea party in this movie has a very friendly and welcoming environment and everyone is happy to be alive. Tulgey wood’s is very tropical or jungle like, which is where most strange animals are found. The Queen of Hearts’ castle is black and white with a maze surrounding it. The movie eventually ends with a swirling vortex like cloud and Alice running towards the talking doorknob frantically wanting out so she does not get her head chopped off by the Queen of hearts. The environment for the 2010 movie has some similarities but it differs. For example, it starts off with Alice being a child in London, everything was lit with candles because there was no electricity, then it fast forwards twelve years so the environment and people who were around Alice are different because her dad ended up passing away and now she is headed to accept
Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland follows the story of young Alice trapped in the world of Wonderland after falling down through a rabbit-hole. The rabbit-hole which is filled with bookshelves, maps, and other objects foreshadows the set of rules, the ones Alice is normally accustomed to, will be defied in Wonderland. This conflict between her world and Wonderland becomes evident shortly after her arrival as evinced by chaos in “Pool of Tears” and Alice brings up the main theme of the book “was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I am not the same, the next question is who am I?” (Carroll 18). After Alice fails to resolve her identity crisis using her friends, Alice says “Who am I, then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I’ll come up: if not, I’ll stay down here til I’m somebody else” (Carroll 19). Hence in the beginning, Alice is showing her dependency on others to define her identity. Nevertheless when her name is called as a witness in chapter 12, Alice replies “HERE!” without any signs of hesitation (Carroll 103). Close examination of the plot in Alice in Wonderland reveals that experiential learning involving sizes leads Alice to think logically and rationally. Alice then attempts to explore Wonderland analytically and becomes more independent as the outcome. With these qualities, Alice resolves her identity crisis by recognizing Wonderland is nothing but a dream created by her mind.
Chapter I - Down the Rabbit-Hole Image: Lewis Carroll Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: 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 conversation?' Image: Bessie Pease Gutmann, 1907 So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her. There was nothing so VERY remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so VERY much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, `Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!' ..(when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural). But when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT- POCKET, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before see a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.
Alice in wonderland was written in the Victorian age this was a time of extreme contradiction and a period of scientific discoveries that changed the world as we know it. To understand Alice we must take a close examination of the trends, culture, and philosophy of the Victorian period for my interpretation of Alice’s encounters in throughout her adventures in Wonderland. As you might imagine, this will open Alice up to various areas that I can focus on and approach in this paper. Taking a historical approach to analyzing Alice in wonderland is the only way to rightly look at this classic piece of children’s literature. It is extremely useful for us to remember that Alice in Wonderland was written during a specific time period that is the Victorian period and knowing that this period had its own specific concerns and habits.
Although the novel is notorious for its satire and parodies, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland main theme is the transition between childhood and adulthood. Moreover, Alice’s adventures illustrate the perplexing struggle between child and adult mentalities as she explores the curious world of development know as Wonderland. From the beginning in the hallway of doors, Alice stands at an awkward disposition. The hallway contains dozens of doors that are all locked. Alice’s pre-adolescent stage parallels with her position in the hallway. Alice’s position in the hallway represents that she is at a stage stuck between being a child and a young woman. She posses a small golden key to ...
One of the main purposes for writing Alice in Wonderland was not only to show the difficulties of communication between children and adults. In this story, almost every adult Alice talked to did not understand her. At times she messed up what they were saying completely as well, which many times stick true to real life circumstances. This book shows that kids and adults are on completely separate pages on an everlasting story. Carroll points out that sometimes children, like Alice, have a hard time dealing with the transition from childhood to adulthood, 'growing up.' Alice in Wonderland is just a complicated way of showing this fact. Lewis Carroll's ways with words is confusing, entertaining, serious, and highly unique all at the same time. And it's safe to say that it would be difficult to replicate such and imaginative technique ever again (Long 72).
"Alice in Wonderland ' is full of beautiful/imaginary characters, each one adding a bit of humor and dimension to the story. When Alice falls down the rabbit hole she meets different talking animals and an unusual Queen. Alice is the main character of the story, a little girl who goes on the fun trip in Wonderland. The first character she meets is The White Rabbit, he reappears throughout the movie and acts as Alice 's guide, which is making happy because he doesn 't seem to know even what time it is.
The characters in Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass are more than whimsical ideas brought to life by Lewis Carroll. These characters, ranging from silly to rude, portray the adults in Alice Liddell’s life. The parental figures in Alice’s reality, portrayed in Alice in Wonderland, are viewed as unintellectual figures through their behaviors and their interactions with one another. Alice’s interactions with the characters of Wonderland reflect her struggles with adults in real life. Naturally curious as she is, Alice asks questions to learn from the adults.
Alice in Wonderland belongs to the nonsense genre, and even if most of what happens to Alice is quite illogical, the main character is not. “The Alice books are, above all, about growing up” (Kincaid, page 93); indeed, Alice starts her journey as a scared little girl, however, at the end of what we discover to be just a dream, she has entered the adolescence phase with a new way to approach the mentally exhausting and queer Wonderland. It is important to consider the whole story when analyzing the growth of the character, because the meaning of an event or a sentence is more likely to mean what it truly looks like rather than an explanation regarding subconscious and Freudian interpretations. Morton states “that the books should possess any unity of purpose seems on the surface unlikely” (Morton, page 509), but it’s better to consider the disconnected narrative and the main character separately, since the girl doesn’t belong to Wonderland, which is, as Morton says, with no intrinsic unity. Whereas, there are a few key turning points where it is possible to see how Alice is changing, something that is visible throughout her journey. Carroll wants to tell the story of a girl who has to become braver in order to contend with challenges like the pool made by her own tears, or assertive characters, like the Queen.