Alice's Wonderland

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The paper outlines the parallelisms in Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass". Imagery and metaphor are both analyzed, as well as various characters and their roles and significance both textually and universally, mostly within a lossely-defined context of feminist ideals. The paper is structured the same as the novel, in the sense that it is a chronological analysis, with a dissertation on Alice ending the work, both with her role as a hereoine and as a girl in the Victorian era analyzed.

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"Victorian sensibilities are reflected through the eyes of youth in Through the Looking-Glass. Alice travels through a mirror to a reversed chessboard world in the novel by Lewis Carroll. Six months to the day after Alice's first dreamy adventure, Alice in Wonderland, she is once again thrust into an illogical world of misguided, yet endearing characters. This well-developed novel takes place on an over-inflated scale with most of the action revolving around a game of chess with living game pieces. Within this regimented and rule governed arena, overlying themes are carefully inserted under the cover of absurdity. Mirror images and dreams each play a significant part in defining the characters within the piece, especially the heroine, Alice. The personifications of secondary characters contrast Alice's Victorian sensibilities with their nonsensical or reversed ideology. These concepts are fused with the use of speech and riddles, parodies and poems to create a world that upon first glance is illogical and unreasoned, but the truth of the order and the genius of the looking-glass world is revealed as a logical inversion of the Victorian Age. As Alice progresses through the nonsensical and outlandish world, a secondary version of herself matures as Alice works her way to the other side of the board. This secondary self, known as "Queen Alice" takes over as the Alice in control in the looking-glass world, since she is the mirror image of the original Alice. The paralleling of Alice moving towards her crowning as Queen with the emotional maturing of her double makes this Alice story an extension of the initial Alice tale, but with a level of appeal built for an audience with a larger range in age."

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