An expansion of this stubbornness is the problems it causes through its rejection of others for not matching Alice 's standards, leading to instances of madness in the context of her own standards. Alice’s meeting with the Caterpillar is where she highlights the madness caused by this stubbornness. The madness is seen in Alice’s refusal, “well, perhaps your feelings may be different…it would feel very queer to me,” of the Caterpillars solution that change should effect one “not a bit” (Carroll 41). At first, her rejection seems reasonable as she is not going against any clear benchmark of behavior. Yet, she supposed to use reasoning to come to this conclusion, which requires her to look at all the evidence. However, she is too focused on the …show more content…
She says, “well, perhaps you may be different” discrediting his statement as exclusive to him. Followed immediately by, “but I would feel,” showing she put barely any thought into the decision to continue with her previous conclusion despite new information, inferring a predetermination to reject The Caterpillar (Carroll 41). This actively works against her own reasoning, which requires her to look at all the facts. These observations about his “very short remarks” and how “she had never been so much contradicted” taint her perception of his answers causing her to respond in a direct, dismissive way that she rarely uses. Again, there is madness her as she ignores her own standards for reasoning and manner. Therefore, for Alice at least, there is a need to follow a certain script or standards before she can even begin to focus on reasoning properly. This struggle is not just because of Alice’s personality, she is trapped by outside forces as much as personal …show more content…
A perfect example of this is her previously mentioned identity crises. Alice never forms a cohesive argument. Sure, as shown above, she applies reasoning to the problem. She realizes “I can remember feeling a little different” which means she is starting with a fact (Carroll 18). She broadens it to commenting on how being different means she is not the same leading to the question “who in the world am I,” and so on. All of this follows the reasoning process. Yet, as she reasons out the problem several different times, with similar questions such as “Who are you”, etc., her logic ends up illogical. Her conclusions change from, “I’m must have been changed for Mabel” to “I-I’m a little girl” to “I-I hardly know” all in situations where she has similar information and a similar question, breaking the standard of reasoning that the same information leads to the same conclusion (Carroll 19; 48; 40). Through this, she is showing madness. The madness, however, is caused by her lack of information. She does not have the information needed to define what identity means seen in her constantly changing what is relent to identity. In some instances, she relates it to features saying she could not be someone because “her hair goes in such long ringlets and mine doesn’t go in ringlets at all” (Carroll 18). At others, she rejects the notion
Alice Walker uses the narrative element of imagery to craft a powerful story in “The Flowers” by using very descriptive sentences and singular words. She uses these to clearly depict the setting, characters and many other aspects of her story. To begin, in the very first paragraph , Walker writes, “ The harvesting of the corn and cotton, peanuts and squash, made each day a golden surprize that caused excited little tremors up her jaws.” Here, the author is able to create a scene in the fall, that further helps the reader imagine the joyful scene the story starts off with. Walker uses words like, golden, surprize, and excited to how how Myops attitude reflects a sense of pure innocents. Next, the quote, “Myop watched the tiny white bubbles disrupt the thin black scale of soil and water that silently rose and slid down the stream.” shows how Myop is happy and has childish innocents. Words like, tiny, bubbles, disrupt and many more used in the quote, help to convey more images of the tone of this story. Finally, as the story’s mood and tone begins to change, there is one quote that stands out. “It was the rotted remains of a noose...now blending into the soil. Around an overhanging limb of a great spreading oak clung another piece.” Walker uses this quote to depict a new sad and gloomy mood change and to show that Myop found the body of a man who had been lynched. Here, the author has also conveyed that this new mood will continue as Myopic innocents degrades. Lastly, the final words in this short story, “And the summer was over.” creates a powerful, descriptive ending. These examples show how the author, Alice Walker used the narrative element of imagery to show how the story, “The Flowers” turns from a cheerful, happy mood at the beginning, to a gloomy, unpleasant mood at the end.
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 ”.
Lewis Carroll, world renowned author, known most for his tale of literary nonsense published almost a century and a half ago, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Several conditions of Carroll’s life molded and shaped his writing. Evidence from Carroll’s book, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland ,one can conclude that Carroll has engraved moments from his life, people around him ,as well as his beliefs and love of logic into his story, considering these are the things that Alice Liddell would recognize.
“The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom is courage.” In America, Americans are blessed to have the right to freedom. Unlike other unfortunate countries, their freedom is limited. In many Latin American countries, the government’s leader has all power of the Country. Citizens have no rights to freedom, they are trapped in a cruel country where innocent people are killed each day. Civilians fear to speak out to the regime of leader; However, there were a few courageous citizens enough to speak out against the government. For example, “The Censors” by Luisa Valenzuela and the historical fictionalized account, “In The Time Of The Butterflies” by Julia Alvarez reveal individual 's role in overcoming oppression.
In the story, evidence claims that Alice is rejecting and opposing to the religion. In reality, religion can be overwhelming to a lot of people, and Alice is no exception to this. Alice has her own way of thinking and throughout the book there are several examples where the other characters get angry, offended, or become afraid of Alice. Alice does attempt to offend fewer characters as the story progresses, but doesn’t fully accept their way of thinking. Throughout the story, Alice is rejected by the Mouse, the Duchess, the Mad Hatter and the March Hare, and the Queen and King of hearts. This line of rejections continues to build up in Alice, and she gets frustrated. Finally at the courtroom scene in the “Alice’s Evidence” chapter, she continues to build up this frustration until it gets to the point where she grows in size uncontrollably, (the only time where she can’t physically control her growth,) and unleashes that anger on the Queen of hearts by saying “Who cares for you? You’re nothing but a pack of cards!) (Carroll 95.) When Alice experiences this outburst, she finally completely rejects their “religion” or their way of
The character, Alice, in Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll was created as a foil, a contrasting figure, to the residents of wonderland. She is kind, imaginative, and polite. Her traits differ from those of whom she meets in Wonderland. Those of this imagined world are often ill-mannered, but with good intentions. The Red Queen, for example, is the first human-like creature Alice meets and the Queen has all sorts of nitpicky comments for her. The Red Queen goes on about things in an arbitrary sense and is not very logical. “I don’t know what you mean by your way,’ said the Queen: ‘all the ways about here belong to me… Curtsey while you’re thinking what to say, it saves time,” (Carroll). Where at first the young girl can’t help but try
As Alice makes her way through Wonderland , she is faced with many pompous personalities that have their own ways of thinking and do not understand why Alice does not agree with their views. Alice takes into consideration what each character says. After becoming quite confused and disgruntled she learns that everyone in Wonderland is in fact m...
...n though she struggled to cope with Wonderland at the beginning due to the lack of appropriate methods, the experiential learning with the sizes taught her to solve the problems at hand rationally, logically and with evidence. Armed with this powerful tool, Alice then sets out to resolve her identity crisis by learning about Wonderland independently. She may not have intentionally chosen which topics (i.e. Time) to pursue but the conclusion she reaches is the same in her interactions: Wonderland is governed by irrationality and her rational self cannot come to terms with it. One may argue ‘how is a seven and a half year old capable of such thinking?’ One must note that Wonderland is a dream and because Alice is dreaming, she is capable of it.
In such a cherished children’s book, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, written in 1865, has caused great commotion in political and social satire. It slowly but surely grew into one of the most adored publications in the Victorian era, expanding into today’s modern age. Lewis Carroll was the pen name utilized by Charles L. Dodgson and has forth created a sequel named Through the Looking Glass, And What Alice Found There composed first in 1871. In short, the text of the story presented with a feminist approach, a corrupt judicial system of Victorian England, the caucus race, and the absence of a childhood, the evolution of species, and Marxism.
Here she finds a strange caterpillar on a mushroom smoking a hookah. It doesn’t even matter that the caterpillar talks and questions Alice about her identity, the way he looks should be enough for Alice and the audience to question their sanity. Upon being asked who she is by the caterpillar, Alice has no idea anymore. She is becoming as mad as she believes the inhabitants of Wonderland to be. The caterpillar seems to be able to read Alice’s thoughts now ‘Just as if she had asked it aloud’ - which leads us to believe that Alice is so confused about her identity that perhaps her thoughts aren’t even hers anymore. By the end of this chapter we again see characters leave Alice in anger as she insults the caterpillar on his height and scares the pigeon who believes her to be a serpent. The caterpillar and pigeon both found Alice to be very strange indeed, yet their surroundings were absolutely normal to them - which again shows that Alice is the only odd thing in Wonderland and is able to upset the
...ng. Alice continues the passage by expressing that she doesn’t desire to be a particular size, but that she simply didn’t wish to be changing so often. Alice’s desire to be herself is important to note as it clearly defines the identity crisis Lewis Carroll reveals about children in the Victorian Era as a result of the societal influences forced upon them. Children are fed facts, forced to conform to the elite societal standard, suppress their inner-child as a result, and are left, according to Lewis Carroll, to squander between a split personality. Thus the identity crisis of children during the Victorian Era are a result of these societal influences, and, like Alice, they are left wondering, “ Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle!” (19).
When in Wonderland, Alice met some strange characters. She was quick to judge them all. The Cat then Alice about the people in Wonderland, “’Oh, you ca’n’t help that,” said the Cat: ‘we’re all mad here, I’m mad. You’re mad’” (Carroll 74). The Cat is symbolic of a realist. He tells Alice that everybody is crazy, which is true. However, part becoming an adult is realizing that everyone has flaws. This relates to the theme of growing up because Alice is learning what it takes to become an adult. The Cat shows Alice this message of life by using the characters of
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. Since they understand the subject at hand well, they do not need to express their thoughts in order for them to understand themselves. However, Alice does not see this internal
Alice’s quest in Wonderland is not well though-out, in fact her encounters are disordered. Having her encounters be unpredictable places Lewis Carroll fairy-tale under Gothic horror. Without a doubt, Alice’s experiences can be illustrated as a nightmare. More importantly, the usage of satire and symbolism by Lewis Carroll gives Alice in Wonderland a meaningful note. All the different characters used in Wonderland essentially come together to form a secret lesson, this secret lesson being teaching children the turmoil of having to grow up. Lewis Carroll utilizes the rabbit hole, growing and shrinking, identifying oneself to characters, and Alice herself as symbols. Like in the “real world,” the only known laws in Wonderland are of chaos.
...inal realization that she is growing up and that is normal, therefore, she accepts it. In brief, Alice in Wonderland is a book about growing up, and Alice definitely has grown up since the beginning of her journey and she has entered the adolescence phase when she rebels against everyone. Although she is not able to control herself when she gets angry, in other words she is behaving like a normal adolescent, she has gained a new “power” from this confusing experience: being a person with a voice to say something that matters.