My father went missing when I was 7. It was a day, just like the day before and the day before that. He woke up, woke my mother and I up, got ready for work, and left. He was a chemist. He used to take me down to his laboratory and show me all the interesting things he could do with the chemicals he had. I used to love going to the lab. That night we had planned on going together, after he came home to have dinner. I waited for him. I waited for 3 hours. He never came home. I fell asleep that night, dreaming of all the places he could be. I never imagined he’d be in Wonderland.
Yes, he was in Wonderland. Not the Wonderland told of in innocent children’s stories, but a Wonderland none the less. It was an adult Wonderland. It was the Heart’s Casino. The Casino had it all: the elaborate showgirls, the vibrant colors, the enticing welcome messages, everything. It had everything. Anything anyone would ever want. Card and slot games were everywhere. It was like any typical casino. There was only one difference.
This casino wasn’t for the people of Wonderland. The people of Wonderland didn’t care for casino games. The casino was made for humans. The Queen of Wonderland had to steal humans to play in the casino. But why humans?
Humans have emotions. The people of Wonderland don’t. The Queen harvested these emotions in the casino and sold them to her people. Her people paid hundreds for the emotions. She stole the emotions from the players, leaving them emotionless, dead. Once the players were dead, they were sent to the Hospital and more were taken from the human world.
The Hospital wasn’t like a normal hospital, just as Wonderland wasn’t the typical wonderland. The Hospital was like heaven. When a person was sent to the hospital, they were given whatever they desired and were kept there until they were back to normal human standards and they were sent back to the human world to live the rest of their lives, forgetting all about Wonderland. This was how the cycle went.
I was 15 when he came back. He told me of Wonderland. I was furious with him at first. How could he think that I would believe that lie after 8 long years of being fatherless. I didn’t believe his stories of the Casino and of the Hospital.
. The Cheshire cat is famous in the book, and movie of Alice and Wonderland. Bradbury used this allusion in his writing to explain the emotion of the people. The author states,"Mrs. Phelps and Mrs. Bowles came through the front door and vanished into the volcano's mouth with martinis in their hands. Montag stopped eating. They were like a monstrous crystal chandelier tinkling in a thousand chimes, he saw their Cheshire Cat smiles burning through the walls of the house, and now they were screaming at each other above the din"(Bradbury 93). This reference to the Cheshire Cat is to explain to the fake grins on Mrs. Bowles and Mrs. Phelps faces. The people of this society, like Mrs. Bowles and Mrs. Phelps, they have fake emotions. The government was taking away their power to read and think about what is going on around them and themselves, their society does not know how to feel or care for other people. All they know how to do is play with their technology and be oblivious to the people and events that are happening around them. The government wants complete control over the people and the best way to do that is to take their ability to think for themselves ,and how they feel on some
In his analysis of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, Richard Kelly describes Wonderland as a nonsensical place where Alice is “treated rudely, bullied, asked questions with no answers, and denied answers to asked questions.” Kelly gives special attention to the “dream garden.” Kelly equates the dream garden with the Garden of Eden, “a longing for lost innocence.” Alice peers through a passage and sees the “beautiful garden with bright flowers and cool fountains.” Unfortunately, she is too large to fit through the door, so she can only ponder its significance. When Alice shrinks to the proper size and finally enters the garden, however, she finds that it is not what she thought it would be. According to Kelly, “it proves to be a parodic Garden of Life, for the roses are painted, the people are playing cards, and the death-cry “Off with her head!” echoes throughout the croquet grounds. Kelly later implies that Alice’s dream garden represents Carroll’s “romantic vision of an Edinic childhood” but which is “corrupted by adult sin and sexuality.” The “hope and joy” that fills Alice lasts for a short time and then is “trample[d] . . . with the hatred and fury of the beheading Que...
Wonderland starts to become obvious to the reader that it is a lawless world, which leads them on a strange journey following Alice’s metaphorical experiences, (An analysis of Alice’s adventures in wonderland, 2016). Throughout the novel, Alice is forever asking herself “who in the world am I” (Carroll, 1992). This is something that almost everybody can relate to, as most people ask themselves this time and again throughout their
The characters of Wonderland have backstory and real names; as well as the nicknames such as Mad Hatter. The shift can illuminate the emphasis on Good and Evil in our society today. The Queen in both is a representation of masculine evil and the story clearly defines the struggle to ‘win the good fight’. The union of the characters serves to clarify the two sides of ‘good’ and ‘evil’. This can be translated into huge divide in power dynamics in the United states. The 1% controls most of America while the gaps in the middle class continue to grow.
Alice starts off as a curious youth, but unlike the idealized image of a young Victorian girl, she bravely enters Wonderland and asserts herself in the face of some dismissive, and some outright hostile creatures. Amongst the inhabitants of Wonderland, the Duchess and the Cook resent their subservient and maternal roles, respectively, and they express this in aggressive and physical manners that are not consistent with the Victorian ideals of women from the “above-world”. The Queen of hearts is similarly aggressive, abusing her power and using violence to solve her problems independent of her husband. Thus, the female presence in Wonderland shows no capability of transforming Alice into the gentle, domestic mother that Victorian society envisions. However, Alice’s triumph in returning to the “above-world” with her assertiveness and independence intact may be a metaphor in which Carroll suggests that repressed women’s feelings, symbolized by the discontented females of Wonderland, may eventually emerge into reality, just as Alice
Lewis Carroll's Wonderland is a queer little universe where a not so ordinary girl is faced with the contradicting nature of the fantastic creatures who live there. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a child's struggle to survive in the condescending world of adults. The conflict between child and adult gives direction to Alice's adventures and controls all the outstanding features of the work- Alice's character, her relationship with other characters, and the dialogue. " Alice in Wonderland is on one hand so nonsensical that children sometimes feel ashamed to have been interested in anything so silly (Masslich 107)."
He has a knack for appearing and disappearing at different intervals of her journey through Wonderland. He gives her insight on many of the creatures and people of Wonderland. However, the most useful piece of advice he gives Alice is that everyone is Wonderland is mad. In fact, even he himself is not “all there” mentally or physically. This is no humor lost in this pun because his body parts continually disappear as well. Despite this fault of his, Alice still finds herself dependent upon him. In this dependence, she her child-like behavior is noticeable. Often, she will give up until the Cheshire Cat will come along and help her decide on what she should
is an important aspect to the piece that most people overlook. In Alice in Wonderland, there’s a lot of deep meaning in the subtext of the movie. For example, the trippy-ness and bright colors are assumed to be hallucination side effects of Alice being on drugs. These drugs that people assume Alice is on, is what makes things disappear and reappear such as the Cheshire Cat and have inanimate objects and animals talk such as the flowers or the caterpillar. I think the meaning behind the queen is courage because Alice knows she must stay alive, this then will wake her from her
the actual story of Alice in Wonderland is quite simple. A young girl is being read to by her older sister and sees a white rabbit wearing an overcoat and a pocket watch. she decides to follow it into Wonderland where she experiences several amazing things such as changes in her height to a talking cat that likes to disappear. how this man came up with this idea is unknown it is known however that he always tried to teach the children a lesson with his stories. and thats exactly what he did here.
The story of the curious little girl named Alice was a late arrival to the fairy tale scene; yet many still consider this strange tale a classic. The beloved classic story of Alice in Wonderland has a place in many childhoods, and some adults’ lives. As many other fairy tales, Alice in Wonderland has been re-imagined time and time again. Disney has made sure this will be a story to be remembered for years to come. Nevertheless, I will be discussing two of the more obscure re-imaginings of this story; one from the comic world of DC’s Batman, and the other from music world. But first, before those can be explored, some history must be shed on this story.
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 thing is clear, his inspiration. Alice Pleasance Liddell. She was the daughter of a friend of his, and he found it much easier to talk to Alice than to talk to any adults he had ever encountered. He described Alice as a dreamer, and a child who knew how to make the most of life. Although Alice was his main inspiration, Charles got along better with children in general. It was obvious that he felt an undenying love and sympathy for every child who crossed his path. As a mathmatician and a writer, all of his works were somewhat out of the ordinary. “His two Alice books remain popular with both adults and children, and they have been interpreted by critics as guides to a Victorian childhood, as well as sophisticated treatises on philosophy, logic, and mathematics.” (Stanley 19) Using both his imagination and his intelligence, Carroll has managed to create multiple pieces of writing which contain such complicated and imaginative context. So, the question is whether or not there is an alternate meaning to Wonderland, or if the Alice novels just simply configured from Carroll’s complex imagination. Like the many readers of Alice’s Adventure’s in wonderland, John C. Butcher was also intrigued by Carroll’s writing and wondered about his social
Upon entering Wonderland, Alice lost sight of who she was and started second guessing herself. This can be observed after she fell through the rabbit hole and landed in the dark room. Alice states, “Dear, dear! How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I’ve changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different” (Carroll 19). This is just one of many instances in Alice’s journey that demonstrates an identity crisis. It is almost as if she did not want to believe what she was seeing and was incapable of separating her reality from fantasy. Another example that shows Alice being unsure of her identity is when the Caterpillar
... giving up his life. So his development was a flat line of a crazy, but kind hearted creature, who would do anything for his friends and queen. The end of the story is just seen as a simple girl waking up from a very confusing, but very life like dream that her sister just looks in a blank stare, because her imagination must not work like that. The end of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland includes one additional scene. After Alice wakes up, she tells her adventures to her sister. Alice herself runs off gleefully, and for a moment the reader is left alone with the sister, recalling all the strange characters and weird happenings of Wonderland. Carroll uses the sister as a guide for the reader, teaching the reader how to appreciate Alice's imagination even while realizing that it's just a fantasy. (http://www.shmoop.com/alice-in-wonderland-looking-glass/ending.html)
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.