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Lewis Carroll?s "Alice in Wonderland", 2005.
This paper analyzes Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland", which explores the nature of reality using logic, philosophy and mathematics.
2,330 words (approx. 9.3 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 71.95
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This paper relates that Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" is the quintessential portmanteau allegory with themes ranging from evolution, growing up in an adult world, class structure in Victorian society, meaning and manners and human sexuality; however, the glue that holds these themes together is the plasticity of reality and the subjectivity of meaning. The author points out that in "Alice in Wonderland", the device of the rabbit hole, which establishes the entire underground setting of the book, replicates the cave in the "Allegory of the Cave" from Plato's "Republic" because control, enlightenment and freedom are all prominent in both allegories. The paper explains that many of the bizarre images in Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" are actually literal--or actually figurative since they involve figures--expressions of figurative expressions, which are actually literal because they involve letters and words. Long quotations.
Table of Contents
Alice in PlatoLand: The Allegory of Wonder
The Cave
Properties of the Forms
Forms in "Alice in Wonderland"
Factor of the Mathematical Pun on 'Remain'
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"An allegory employs a literal story to convey a figurative meaning. Through allegory, a more complex subject or idea is described in terms of that of a lower which is made out to resemble it in properties and circumstances, the principal subject remains obscure leaving the reader to make the connection between the secondary and the primary subjects. The subject of both Plato and Carroll's allegories is appearance and reality---or the good or the true."
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James Kincaid's "Alice's Invasion of Wonderland", 2004.
Review of James Kincaid's article on Louis Carroll's children's classic, "Alice in Wonderland".
1,961 words (approx. 7.8 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 62.95
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This paper describes Kincaid's more cynical view of "Alice in Wonderland" in which he talks about the subversive and brutal elements of the classic story. The paper also compares Kincaid's reading of "Alice in Wonderland" to more traditional readings of the story.
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"Yet another traditional reading which Kincaid references is that which says Alice is ?the reader's surrogate on a frightful journey into meaningless night [where] practically all pattern, save the consistency of chaos, is annihilated." (92) Kincaid says that in this reading, Alice learns to reject chaos and the darkness of unlimited imagination and return to the ?sane madness of ordinary existence.? (92) This is the sort of reading which might suggest the story to be not only about children learning to navigate a foreign and nonsensical adult world, but also about the way in which children filter out the nonsense of their own fantasy lives and learn how to grow up and
chooses to reject chaos and also imagination and take part in the ?ordinary existence? of adult life. These first two readings can be reconciled by saying that Wonderland represents the fantasy of a very young child?s nonsensical imagination transposed over a sort of archetypal structure that is adult life (hence making adults seem absurd) -- and that what Alice is doing is rejecting the fantasy aspects while learning to make sense of the reality-based adult aspects."
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"Alice in Wonderland", 2008.
A look at how Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" questions the definition of a fallen hero.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 57.95
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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.
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"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."
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Shakespeare in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", 2009.
An argument against the views of Harold Bloom regarding William Shakespeare's influence in Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," as expressed in his work, "Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human."
4,693 words (approx. 18.8 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 120.95
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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.
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Epigraph
Preface
Introduction
Bloom's Argument of Shakespearean Influence
Testing Bloom's Premise: Shakespeare's Influence
Mathematical Influence
Conclusion
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"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."
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"Alice in Wonderland" and "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", 2001.
This paper is an in-depth comparison of Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" and C.S. Lewis' "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe".
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 51.95
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This paper compares and discusses the danger to the children in C.S. Lewis? "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" and Lewis Carroll?s "Alice in Wonderland". It details the plots of both books and examines them very closely. It concludes that both stories show the dangers of being a child as well as other dangers in life.
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"The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe? takes place during World War II in London. Four children, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, go live in the country to avoid bomb-torn London. They live with the rather eccentric Professor Kirke. One rainy day, the children are playing hide and seek inside, and Lucy hides in the wardrobe. Suddenly, she finds herself in the woods, and snow is falling. She has discovered the land of Narnia, and later brings the other children along to see her discovery."
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"Alice in Wonderland" and "Harry Potter", 2002.
This paper compares Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" and J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone".
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 15 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper explores notions of childhood in Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" and J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone". The author stresses the use of the fantastical and the bildungsroman genre of each text.
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Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland", 2006.
A look at how Lewis Carroll's unique personal characteristics were manifested in the writing of "Alice in Wonderland".
2,260 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 69.95
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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.
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"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."
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"Alice in Wonderland" and "The Tempest", 2002.
This paper compares Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" and William Shakespeare's "The Tempest".
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper considers the meaning of Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" in light of William Shakespeare's "The Tempest". The author analyzes the characters of Alice and Miranda .
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The Cheshire Cat in "Alice In Wonderland", 2002.
An analysis of the psychological premise of the cheshire cat scene in "Alice In Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper will discuss the book "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll and seek to understand a particular scene in the book in relation to dream psychology. By looking into the psychological value of the scene, as Carroll has created, we can understand the how the world of Alice, is quite different from that we ourselves live in, it is in essence, a world of psychology to be studied.
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Authority Figures in "Alice in Wonderland", 2001.
This paper examines the significance of authority figures and the hierarchy of authority in "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll.
1,700 words (approx. 6.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 55.95
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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.
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"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."
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"Alice in Wonderland" and "The Color Purple", 2002.
This paper deals with the notion of fantasy in Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland "and Alice Walker's "The Color Purple".
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper discusses that there is a strong theme suggesting that fantasy is used as an escapism from the impossibility of personal change. The author points out that, in the end, a liberation is gained through fantasy.
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"Alice in Wonderland", 2002.
The following paper examines why Louis Carrol?s "Alice in Wonderland" has exercised such fascination for both adults and children.
2,190 words (approx. 8.8 pages), 12 sources, MLA, $ 68.95
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This paper suggests that rather than subsuming the entire text to a specific kind of ideological reading, either psychoanalytic or literary, it is more interesting to view the text as a series of subversions of perceptual order.
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?Alice in Wonderland has been read, in different contexts, as a surrealist Freudian tale of a child?s growing awareness of her sexuality, a mathematical analysis of the concrete world, and simply a Disney-like fantasia of sight and sound. The author?s own obsessions with taking pictures of young girls in the context of his private life, coupled with his mathematical donship at Oxford University may have something to do with all of these theories. (Shulevitz The New York Times Book Review 31) Throughout the text, Alice believes she perceives one thing in a rational fashion than realizes she perceives another. Alice?s rationality and her rooting in the material world outside of wonderland, rather than any child-like removal she may exhibit from it are what form the contrasts that form the ?narrative,? such as it exists, in the book.?
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?Alice in Wonderland?, 2003.
Compares Lewis Carroll's "Alice" books to Walt Disney's cartoon adaption.
1,808 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 9 sources, APA, $ 58.95
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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.
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"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."
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Alice?s Wonderland, 2004.
A study of the feminine role in "Through the Looking-Glass" examining the differences in charaters and role typing throughout the novel.
2,906 words (approx. 11.6 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 86.95
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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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"Alice?s Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll, 2002.
This paper discusses Lewis Carroll?s "Alice?s Adventures in Wonderland" as a story that is not only nonsensical but also logical.
1,865 words (approx. 7.5 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 59.95
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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".
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"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 . . .? ."
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