Essays on Alice in Wonderland
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (AAiW) is a novel written by Lewis Carroll. It tells a story of a young girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole, soon discovering a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. On the other hand, Coraline is a film directed by Henry Selick, based upon an adventurous girl...
1) Introduction Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), otherwise known as Lewis Carroll, his pen name, is famous for his children’s storybook Alice in Wonderland[footnoteRef:1]. Besides being a famous author, he was also a photographer, a mathematician and Anglican deacon. There are rumours that he could have been a paedophile, but...
Alice Alice is a courteous girl with lots of curiosity and imagination. She is gentle, polite, and loving. She represents a youthful, pure love and passion. Although she had been through many challenges and adventures, and she was upset and confused. She was able to put it off easily and cheer up quickly after. She...
Identity is explored through the relationship between the female body and the mind in both Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and The Bloody Chamber. Carrol presents Alice’s character as innocent and curious; he uses her experience as a parallel with the struggles young adolescents face when growing up and finding out who they are. “who in...
Everybody likes to escape from the real world. Some find it difficult while others live in their imagination. This imaginative dreamworld lifestyle is best escaped to within the fantasy genre. Another description of fantasy, is any work that contains magic or unrealistic settings, normally set in an alternate universe, or involving mythical creatures and supernatural...