Abstract
The paper discusses that the reader may discover insights about himself and the world amidst the gobbledygook of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". The author believes that Carroll uses language, such as puns and linguistic play, as a tool with which he introduced the reader to ideas often times overshadowed by nonsense. The paper explains that nonsensical events such as the Mad Hatter's tea party and the Knave's trial, have a deeper meaning in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland".

From the Paper
"Through the character of Alice, Carroll provides readers with knowledge of Victorian people, as well as our personal struggles to mature and find our true identities. Amidst the madness in Wonderland, Alice remains her rational self, concerned with reciting her lessons so that others will appreciate her being well educated. However, what she recites is "not quite right . . . [because] some of the words have got altered" (Carroll 49). Alice's fretting over saying her lessons correctly is Carroll's way of satirizing Victorian education. One critic points out that Alice's swimming in the pool of tears she has wept is " . . . [Carroll's] making an astute observation on Victorian education, notably that the acquisition of knowledge and guilt over assumed transgression often accompany each other . . ." ."

Tags:satire, victorian, insight, puns, party

Abstract
This paper examines mathematics and logic versus the influence of William Shakespeare in Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland." The paper specifically analyzes Harold Bloom's work, "Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human" and his views on Shakespeare's influence in Carroll's book. The paper argues against Bloom's view and aims to find not only references to Shakespeare, but also much grander references to Carroll's own discipline of mathematics and logic.

Table of Contents:
Epigraph
Preface
Introduction
Bloom's Argument of Shakespearean Influence
Testing Bloom's Premise: Shakespeare's Influence
Mathematical Influence
Conclusion

From the Paper
"By discovering that Wonderland is indeed grounded by the same logical, predictable, mathematical basis as the real world, Alice is saved from the fate of losing faith in her knowledge and reasoning abilities, and hence from the madness which afflicts Wonderland. Similarly, she encounters this logic as she comes into contact with a variety of creatures that she does not understand or whom seem strange to her. The creatures' use of logic allows her to understand how the logic that might make sense to her seems completely illogical to them. Thus, Carroll not only manages to use logic in order to prove both the logic and the illogical, but also, he uses this logic and mathematics to emphasizes his two mains themes, that Alice is saved from the world of the illogical by logical concepts like mathematics and that what one person thinks is logical may be illogical to another and vice versa, the dichotomy of the strangers."

Tags:mathematics, logic, reasoning, chaos

Abstract
The paper discusses how "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" breaks the mold of a hero's quest by virtue of Alice being female and by the fact that she does not bring home a tangible treasure. The paper challenges the assumption that only a male can be a hero and maintains that the values Alice learned enable her to see the world in a new way and this for her was as a great a treasure as any. The paper also considers how Alice was merely in a dream state but posits that the magic and reality of Wonderland stayed with her and so her dream is considered as valid as an adventure.

From the Paper
"Not only does Lewis Carroll's tale, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland create a whole new genre driven by fantasy and nonsense, but it also deviates from the typical expectations of a hero's quest. On the outside, the story follows the path of a young girl being called to an adventure by a white rabbit. As Alice falls down the rabbit hole, her world is literally turned upside down as she enters Wonderland; however, with Alice's failure to complete the pattern of a quest by not returning home with a prize, her adventures force us, as readers, to question what it really means to be a hero and return home with a prized possession."

Tags:female, prize, treasure, quest, dream, values

Abstract
The paper relates that Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" lacks the traditional elements of fairy tales, where there is a prince, a "rags to riches" story line and a beautiful, yet silent princess. The paper highlights how in Carroll's fairy tale, a prince is not the ultimate prize, but the attaining of knowledge of a world that has books without pictures as well as of a greater existence. The paper discusses how although Alice does not show the same ideas of good and evil present in human characters, it can still be classified as a fairy tale since the contrast is between the good and evil worlds. The paper believes that Alice represents a more realistic hero and a protagonist that young girls can actually aspire to be like without demeaning themselves.

From the Paper
"For many societies, children are taught the way to function successfully through the art of story telling and fairy tales. It is a conscious decision to fill tales with morality and a clear distinction between good and evil and children will begin to see for the first time what it means to be a human. Tales that have survived for so many years still act as a way of socializing children and providing with them means of conformity. In popular fairy tales such as, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty, the female characters in particular come as close to death as possible while still having no agency, but because killing the protagonist will leave the child with a sense of hopelessness, a sleep-like death is the only way to keep her silent."

Tags:prince, princess, knowledge, good, evil, morals, hero, magic

Abstract
In Lewis Carroll's novel, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", Carroll creates a satirical impression of human authority. This paper explains how he portrays seemingly powerful characters such as the King and Queen of Hearts as shallow, idiotic, and farcical, while characters such as Alice and the Cheshire-Cat are depicted as knowledgeable, witty characters who possess the real authority in Wonderland. Carroll, through exaggeration, displays the King and Queen of Hearts as somewhat of a parallel to the top of the hierarchy of authority in the real world. The paper looks at how these characters are presented to the reader as abusing power they don?t really possess. It explains how, in the end, Alice, with the help of the Cheshire-Cat, develops as the true figure of authority in Wonderland and symbolizes young children everywhere, showing them that they too can make a difference in the world.

From the Paper
"Lewis Carroll develops Alice as a prominent authority figure throughout her tenure in Wonderland. Alice's authority increases in her own mind as she realizes how farcical and illogical the important figures in Wonderland really are. This is quite evident at the mad tea party when Alice is arriving and the Mad Hatter and March Hare claim there is no room but
Alice indignantly says, "there's plenty of room!,"(Carroll, 60) and sits down in a large armchair
at the head of the table. Alice, here, is showing the characters of Wonderland that they do not intimidate her and she is trying to enforce her own sense of authority over these idiotic beings. The Hatter and the March Hare try to belittle Alice with their remarks but Alice replies to their snide remarks with polite, intelligent responses. This can be manifested when the Hatter and the Hare are rudely commenting on how Alice could use a hair cut and Alice replies, "you should learn not to make personal remarks . . . it's very rude."(Carroll, 60). Although the Hatter and the Hare don't realize it, Alice is establishing herself as a teacher, or leader, that provides a helpful example to children readers with respect to manners and temperament. The idea of Alice's authority in Wonderland is further developed to the point where she can be recognized as the supreme authority figure in Wonderland near the end of the story at the trial regarding the stolen tarts. Alice, at this point, has grown back to her normal size and has no respect for, or fear of the Queen or King of Hearts any longer."

Tags:cat, cheshire, hearts, queen, king

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This essay examines Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" series ("Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", "Through the Looking-Glass" and "What Alice Found There") and then compares it to the Walt Disney cartoon adaptation. The paper focuses on the differences between the two, such as the added morals to the Disney story and looks at the genre and medium of the two.

From the Paper
"The only characters that seemed to have been made visibly nastier by Disney are the flowers that attack Alice both verbally and physically for being different. First the flowers accept her for thinking she is a strange flower, just like in the book, but when they discover she is not a flower they shoo her away and want nothing to do with her (unlike the book where they do not seem to realise that Alice is really a little girl). Alice is quite indignant about this and it is one of the nastier, or maybe even the nastiest scene in the Disney film."

Tags:animation, Bill, the, Lizard, Queen, of, Hearts

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This paper considers the social construction of childhood as seen between the end of the eighteenth and the end of the nineteenth centuries in Great Britain. According to the paper, the meaning of childhood and the social construction of the child moved from ambiguous to clearly defined with respect to class, gender, and education. This paper further examines one of the most important literary works from this period that represents some of the complexities of the changing social construction of childhood during this era, Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland."

From the Paper
"Between the end of the eighteenth and the end of the nineteenth centuries in Great Britain the meaning of childhood and the social construction of the child moved from ambiguous to clearly defined with respect to class, gender, and education. This essay will examine one of the most important literary works from this period that represents some of the complexities of the changing social construction of childhood during this era: Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The thesis will be argued that..."

Tags:child, social, construction

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This paper looks at specific influences in the life of Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) such as split personality disorder, sleep difficulty and Victorian era social problems and examines how they are represented in the story of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". A detailed analysis of the story shows that there are characters, events and symbols that may serve as allegorical representations of the influences in the author's life.

From the Paper
"What is the difference between dreaming and pretending? The pretender creates the environment for the action while the dreamer is forced to negotiate an environment that was not consciously created. One of the most celebrated dreams in literature involves a girl named Alice and a place called Wonderland. On a hot July day in 1862, Charles Dodgson began telling a story to three little girls during a boating trip. It was a fantastic tale about a mysterious rabbit hole, talking animals, magic potions and a particularly violent Queen. One of the girls on the trip, Alice Liddell, begged Mr. Dodgson to write down the story for her. The story was written as Alice's Adventures Under Ground, which was later published under the more commonly known name, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Bassett 49). For the causal reader of this fairy tale, it may be hard to imagine how the author created such an outlandish story. The characters are bizarre and often absurd. Nothing in the story seems to be of this world, at least not within the realms of known sciences. However, a detailed analysis of the story shows that there are characters, events and symbols that may serve as allegorical representations of the influences in the author's life. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a story comprised of extra ordinary characters and events that correspond directly to the real life biography of Charles Dodgson."

Tags:dual, personas, pen, name, nonsense, fantasy, double, identity, control, logical, academic

Abstract
The paper points out how although the Disney film generally kept to the novel's tone and motifs, there were necessary alterations in the style of storytelling and in the perspective of the reader/viewer. The paper focuses on the film's visual elements, the lack of ambiguity as to whether Alice experiences a dream or not, and the ways in which Alice is represented in comparison to animals. The paper describes other successful techniques used in this film and comes to the conclusion that this adaptation is one of the most successful book-to-film adaptations of any kind.

From the Paper
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the 1865 foray into literary nonsense penned by Charles Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, became a classic nearly instantly and has remained so for the century and a half of its existence. The whimsy, satire, and sheer exuberance of storytelling that the author wove into this book (and its sequel, Alice Through the Looking Glass and What She Found There) has made the short novel appeal to children and adults alike, as was its author's intention when he published what began as a simple summer afternoon diversion for three little girls (Levin, 591). Though the story is mostly aimed at children, the characters, places, and situations are largely satires or at least representations of people and places Dodgson knew around Oxford, where he taught, and the book was quickly adopted by adults both for pleasure reading and in scholarly circles for its use of logic and its unique literary merits (Auerbach, Shavit). Its most striking and enduring features, however, have been the story itself and the engaging and "curious" character of Alice herself, from whose perspective the reader receives the story."

Tags:visual, elements, text, dream, narration, animation, animals

Abstract
In this article, the writer discusses that studying the book 'Alice in Wonderland' provides an insight into life in Victorian England. The writer maintains that there is more to this book than a child's fantasy, as one can almost hear author Carroll's voice in the words. The writer notes that this voice seems to hint at deeper meanings. In addition, the writer points out that Alice's life, as a Victorian female child destined to become a rather bored idle Victorian lady and that her adventures in Wonderland are in sharp contrast to the life afforded Victorian ladies. After studying the sources, the writer concludes with the belief that it warrants a bit more research in order to fully understand this very delightful book.

From the Paper
"In looking further, we should re-examine the conversations in the book, and even the various things which happen to Alice. Victorian "ladies" were totally preoccupied with appearance, and went to extreme measures to stay very thin. Corsets made their waists even smaller, and tended to make the ladies faint, since they could not breathe. Alice becomes a giant from one bite of a cookie."
"A journal article by Rose Lovell-Smith does a dandy job of explaining the presence of so many animals in Wonderland as parallel symbols for the Victorian class system, and the way these animals talk is not at all innocent or meant for children, but results in sharp criticism of Victorian society."

Tags:Victorian, England, ladies, Mad, Hatter