Alice is a 7 year old girl who is very imaginative. One day, her and her sister were sitting near a bank, reading books when all of a sudden, Alice spots a white rabbit running past her and jumping into a rabbit hole. Alice being an innocent and inquisitive little girl, she too goes down the rabbit hole. She falls into a big hallway with many locked doors. She sees one, and realizes that she's too small, and that the door is locked, and the key is out of reach. After seeing her predicament, she spots a bottle labeled DRINK ME. She ponders about the possible out comes, and she decides to drink it, hoping to grow tall to reach the key, or shrink small enough to be able to get through the hole. Finding out that she had gotten small or not small enough, she then finds a cake that she also thinks about the possible out comes, and convinces herself to eat it, and finds out that she had grown. A while after she finally gets to be proportionate again, she gets upset, and begins to cry, and finds out that the more she cries the smaller she gets. After finally getting through the door, she later sees the White Rabbit, who mistakes her as his housemaid Mary Ann, tells her to retrieve his gloves and fan. Alice then runs into his house in search for his gloves and his fan that he had lost in the corridor at the end of the rabbit hole. He orders Alice to check his home for his things, and while Alice goes and looks though his house, and then finds another bottle like the one before, and then before she knew it she grew bigger again, and she is stuck in the house. Pat, the White Rabbit's servant, is ordered to burn the house down. Scared Alice decides to threaten Pat, and the crowd out the window by saying Dinah will go after all o... ... middle of paper ... ...about this school work, the Gryphon interrupts the turtle, and asks Alice to go on about her adventures in Wonderland. After talking to the Gryphon and the Mock Turtle, she goes to the courtroom to find the Queen wondering who had stolen the tarts. The White Rabbit calls the Mad Hatter, the Dormouse, and then Alice. Alice forgetting that she had eaten the tart earlier had slowly gotten bigger, and then the king and ordered her to leave the court due to Rule 42 of the Courtroom. Alice fought the King over how if it is the oldest rule in the book, then it should be rule number one. After fighting over this, the Queen had ordered her to be beheaded. The Queen's playing cards had began jumping at her. When they almost get her, she wakes up, and thinks to tell her sister about the weird dream about wonderland and how she'll tell other children of her weird adventure.
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She is welcomed back warmly by her family, but finds herself ostracized by the community and has difficulty keeping her resolve to avoid drugs. She soon weakens and, while high, runs away again. She spends time living on the streets, a period during which her diary is not dated and entries were purportedly recorded on scraps of paper or paper napkins. She finds herself having sexual relations with strangers and loses track of everything. When she returns home she vows to stay completely off drugs, and succeeds. However, she is again ostracized by her former friends who continue to label her a police informant, and is ignored by the "square" kids. While babysitting, Alice is drugged without her knowledge.
She requests that Arden’s body be brought to her and, upon seeing him, she speaks to Arden and confesses to the murder, and expresses her guilt, wishing he were still alive, by saying “...And would my death save thine thou shouldst not die” (“Arden” 8). Though she previously conveyed how free she felt, the combination of the hand-towel and knife used to kill Arden, his innocent blood stains on the floor, and his distorted, unmoving body triggers Alice to feel an overwhelming and unbearable sense of guilt. Once this guilt comes upon her, she cannot stop herself from begging her dead husband for forgiveness, though he cannot offer it to her now. The guilt of her actions causes her to expose the people who helped her enact this heinous crime. Because Alice reveals the truth behind Arden’s murder, every character pays a penance for their
Alice then follows the white rabbit until it disappears into a rabbit hole. Being a curious girl, Alice peers down the hole trying to find the rabbit. She then slips and plummets down for quite some time— representing the next step in the hero’s journey, Crossing the Threshold. Which is where the hero enters a new or special world. When Alice lands at the bottom she believes she is in a dream; as the world she has landed in is much different from the world she was born in. This is where most heroes would meet the Threshold Guardian- aids the hero in transferring between the two worlds. Except in Alice’s story, she uses her own mind to discover how to get into the new world—beginning the Road of Trials. The road of trials is where the
While adults try to figure out use of complex m codes in the text, or debate his possible use of opium, viewers may be simply dive with Alice through the rabbit hole, chasing after "The dream-child moving through a land / Of wonders wild and new." There they meet the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Fake Turtle, and the Mad Hatter, among a large number of other characters gone forever, fantasy-like, and ordinary creatures. Alice travels through this Wonderland, trying to understand the meaning of her strange experiences. But they turn out to be "curiouser and curiouser," (appearing to be) without moral or
This extremity of emotion brings her to downfall. Her tendency to limit her own abilities by her nature of fixed habits or unmovable convictions isolates Alice from her community and distorts her features. She had once been a beautiful girl but grows into a woman with a head too large for her body. This is symbolic of her self-consumption, loneliness, and illusions. “I am becoming old and queer. If Ned comes he will not want me.” (Anderson 117). She grows to support the theme of life in death, living within her own imagination and memory to the point that her head is nearly expanding under the stress. She denies herself the reality of life by narrowing the experience to a dream world. By making absolute convictions and believing her own lies, Alice refuses to meld her worlds of dream and reality together. For example, Will Hurley, the man who walks her home from Church meetings, is an impostor into her narrowly constructed universe and thus she does not want to...
Alice has many arguments because many of the creatures in Wonderland think of her as silly. She has to stand up for herself which helps her to mature and progress through Wonderland. When she stands up for herself against someone who is really important like the Queen of Hearts, she awakens back into the real world. This represents that she has overcome her challenge.
Lewis Carroll’s fascinating novel Alice in Wonderland, published in 1865, was foremost intended to entertain and pleasure children with a new outlook on the ability to imagine and explore one’s creative mind. Alice is not only just a character in a book, but a dear friend to Mr. Carroll. She inspired and encouraged Carroll to first tell the original story and further publish the tale into the enduring classic, Alice in Wonderland. In the novel Alice experiences the adventure of a lifetime after falling down a large rabbit-hole in her family’s pasture, bored and curious one summer’s day. Once Alice enters Wonderland a number of strange and confusing events take place, such as: crying a pool of tears, advice from a caterpillar, meeting the Queen of Hearts, playing on her Croquet-Ground, almost getting beheaded by the Queen’s demand, meeting numerous talking animals, including the Cheshire cat (who continues to appear throughout the novel), and finally serving as a witness in the Queen’s Courtroom. In the middle of the chaos Alice meets the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, and the Dormouse at their mad tea party. Alice approaches the great table where all three are crowded together; to her surprise they all cry out “No room! No room!” (Carroll 52). Alice announces there is plenty of room for her and sat down at the end of the table in a large arm-chair. From this moment forward the four characters have a conversation over three challenging topics. Throughout the novel and real life, Carroll introduces riddles and complex ideas to Alice, stimulating her intuition and the ability to think for herself. The Mad Hatter and March Hare are created to assist Alice discover and recognize what madness and meaningless puzzles look like, all throu...
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.
There are several reasons why I have chosen the book “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” as the topic for my term paper. The main reason is that I have been fascinated by Alice’s adventures as a series on TV since I was about six years old. I was curious about the overworked rabbit, racked by brain about how Alice would only be able to reach the golden key on the table and I got even more nervous when I saw the Queen than the Knaves of Hearts did. What I did not understand then was that Alice has fallen asleep in the beginning and all she is experiencing is “only” a dream. However, my illusion has been destroyed when I first read the book at the age of about 12 and I must admit it was then when I lost some of my fascination for Alice.
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 ”.
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 ...
Here, in order to move forward, she must step back. If she wants to arrive somewhere quickly, she must walk with patience. What she considers to be common is nonsense to the characters of Wonderland. The first person she meets is the Red Queen, who is in the form of a large chess piece. The Red Queen blabbers on about the girl 's poor manners before explaining that they are all playing a giant chess game and that Alice can take the role of the White Queen 's pawn if she wishes. There are seven more squares she must pass through in order to win and become a Queen. To end the game, Alice must travel to the eighth square. As Alice makes her way through each square, she encounters various characters and creatures that provide obstacles for her to overcome. These characters range in absurdity, each with a different set of challenges. There are Tweedledee and Tweedledum, who pester Alice with riddles. They worry her by claiming that she is simply an imaginary figure in the Red King 's dream and that once he awakes she will cease to exist. Soon after leaving Tweedledee and Tweedledum, Alice meets the White queen, with whom she forgets about her previous unease. She eventually becomes acquainted with other characters, such as the Hatter and the Hare. The White knight and, consequently, a Red knight, fight one another for the right to hold her prisoner. Though, as it turns out, the White knight 's definition of 'prisoner ' entails very little imprisonment besides being forced to ride with him to the next space. Alice, as she goes through each square, discovers new ways of thinking and recognizes other viewpoints. She starts to understand the logic of her own world and how it applies in Wonderland. Alice also, however, begins to wonder at her own existence and whether or not Tweedledee and Tweedledum are right.
At the beginning of the story Alice is a little girl who is very curious, but also quite scared of being alone. First of all, she has an inquiring mind that brings her down the rabbit hole and, even if her way of thinking could remind the adult kind of thoughts, she still acts like a child. A clear example of this kind of behavior is when she finds a bottle with the words “DRINK ME” labeled on. Before drinking f...