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The evolution into today’s progressive society has challenged the significance of literature. What’s its purpose and what does it actually teach us? Without literature our culture and values would not have developed to shape our society. Literature mirrors society’s continual change in values as shown through Lewis Carroll’s novel, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and its two manifestations, Walt Disney’s animated...
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Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass are based on social Darwinism, the 'survival of the fittest' and the novels explain the function of language and how the characters obtain power. First, is important to mention that Alice in Wonderland describes the creation of identity whereas Through the Looking Glass is a social negotiation of identity, thus finding your...
Alice in WonderlandSocial Darwinism
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J.R.R Tolkien film ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’ released 21 September 1937 and Tim Burton ‘Alice in Wonderland’ emancipated 4 March 2010. The Hobbit is a novel about the adventures of a hobbit as he commenced on an unexpected adventure. Alice in Wonderland is a story about a little girl and her adventures in a dream place called wonderland this...
Alice in WonderlandTolkien
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In the whimsical and often bewildering narrative of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," Lewis Carroll weaves a tapestry of archetypes that reflect the human experience, societal norms, and individual psyche. This essay delves into the rich tapestry of archetypal elements present in the novel, analyzing how these timeless symbols contribute to the underlying themes and character development within this fantastical world....
Alice in WonderlandObservation
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The film The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and the text Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll both examine the notion of point of view. However, both plots are formed through the close interaction between the reader and the narrator. The narrator’s influential role forms what will be expressed through the narrative and what will be portrayed for the reader...
Alice in WonderlandThe Hunger Games
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Joseph Campbell wrote about the hero monomyth after he discovered that most hero stories have a common pattern and storyline. Joseph Campbell’s hero monomyth is a theory he proposed that heroes follow in a narrative, especially in an adventure novel. His theory states that almost all heroes follow the steps of this patterned journey. ‘Alice in Wonderland’ in its many...
Alice in WonderlandHero’s JourneyJoseph Campbell
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Alice in Wonderland is a fantasy film directed by Tim Burton. It begins with a young girl Alice who falls down a rabbit it hole to find herself in a nonsensical world filled with peculiar creatures called ‘Underland’. In order to save Underland from the tyrannical Red queen she must internalise whether to remain a free spirit or to conform...
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Introduction: The Intersection of Literature and Cinema Over the past few decades, the motion picture industry has interwoven with literature, so much so that film adaptations of great literary works have become a popular thread in the fabric of the seventh art, becoming a main branch in the field of interdisciplinary studies. Although the two mediums have their own unique...
Alice in WonderlandNovel
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The Alice in Wonderland Syndrome (AIWS) was first coined by the British psychiatrist John Todd and was based upon the childhood story, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll in 1865. “Todd's patients felt they were too small, too tall, or parts of their bodies were changing shape, size, or relationship to the rest of their bodies. Some recalled the...
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Here, we reach a rabbit hole in the form of a Disney scholarship. By way of introduction to the field, I suggest that Disney scholarship consists largely of two “camps.” The more contemporary strain of Disney scholarship, beginning to blossom in the 1970s, concentrates largely on questions of narrativization politics, including those of Walt Disney’s biography. A non-exhaustive list of...
Alice in WonderlandAllegoryDisney
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The political issues that Carroll focuses on as a result of this is imperialism and justice. Instead of teaching children to be good Briton’s Carroll wants to teach children to be wary of institutionalized imperialism and the false sense of justice presented in the judicial system in Britain. The satire on the political issues of the time focuses on two...
Alice in WonderlandBritish HistorySatire
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Introduction Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a whimsical and fantastical tale that captivates readers with its imaginative characters and peculiar landscapes. Among the colorful cast of characters, the Cheshire Cat stands out as a symbol of enigma and wisdom. In this literary criticism essay, we will explore the symbolism of the Cheshire Cat and its significance in the...
Alice in WonderlandCharacterLiterary Criticism
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Reading classic literature is like traveling back in time, to live the life of someone who lived during a particular period in time, witness great battles, rise, and fall of great empires and that of men and women, to see how human mind though now evolved faces the same dilemmas of life from birth until death. Many of these classics...
Alice in WonderlandAnna KareninaWoman
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Published in 1865, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll was a remarkable book during that time and still is present day. Lewis Carroll was one of eleven kids he was born In 1832 and died in 1898, he grew up in Cheshire, England. As a child Carroll was adventurous and was lonely, he would often entertain his siblings by...
Alice in Wonderland
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“Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” is a novel written by Lewis Carrol in 1865. It is a famous children’s book that tells a fictional story of a young girl who got into a new dimension, a new and totally different world. Martin Gardner, an American writer, interested in mathematics and science, said that “life viewed rationally, and without illusion, appears to...
Alice in Wonderland
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Lewis Carroll, who is the author of Alice's Adventure in Wonderland, is a famous British fairy tale writer, mathematician and logician. Alice's Adventure in Wonderland is one of his representative works. The book tells the growth of a little girl, Alice, from the rabbit hole fall into a magical world, and met many creatures and experienced many beautiful adventures; At...
Alice in Wonderland
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