Lewis Carroll is an extremely inspirational person in this world, and I can't see how anyone could at least not enjoy Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass; they are just very well written in all ways. Go Alice Weatherwax!! As i was reading the hub i also noticed the strange order in the events the writer was describing. I believe he used the Disney movie to interpret and not the book Ihave read most of the comments here on "Alice" and am truly amazed at the different ways that people are interpreting what is supposed to be nothing more than a children's story.
It's hard to believe the "drug" theory in that Carroll lived in an era alien to drugs. I say this hearing all the groans from people who are reading this remark. The "groans" are from readers who state to me "don't you know that people have always "used" something or other?
But it is interesting in that so many parallels to drug use can be outsourced from the story. The fact that an intelligent adult wrote this story might be a clue to the origin of so many intellectual and varied interpretations of it. Harper Lee stated that people have told her that with each reading of "Mockingbird", they "see" something different. That's the mark of an artist. Their art which they perceive on one plane, can take on a life of its own, that the artist never even conceived of.
To me, that is the quintessential definition of any good creative genius, his or her work presents in various interpretations to different people just as when someone takes a prism and shines it to the light. From the title that has been used, 'Alice in Wonderland', I am assuming this essay is about the first book which goes under the full title of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', and not the second book 'Through the looking glass and what Alice found there'.
Therefore, your paragraph about Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee is misplaced, as it insinuates that they appear in the first book, and not the second.
However they are only in 'Through the looking Glass and what Alice Found there'. However they often appear in film adaptations entitled 'Alice in wonderland' or variations thereof. Even so, in the fourth and fifth paragraphs, which are focused on Alice's adventures in the White Rabbits house, when she is collecting his gloves, and eats the cake to get bigger, Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee are again referred to in past tense, along with their story of the Curious Oysters.
Also, Lewis Carroll probably was not on drugs when he wrote the Alice books, as if he was it would probably read as a random mash of events, and not how it does. However, parts, at least, are about drugs, or make references to them.
Aspects of the story are mocking the drugs that were socially acceptable to use in that time, Victorian England. Lewis Carroll wrote most of Alice on a boat with the Liddell children so he definitely wasn't on drugs when he thought up the majority of the story.
Most of the peculiar characters are just quirky in that way, as it was written for children and so is entertaining for them. But, as Lewis Carroll, whose real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, was a very good mathematician a lot of the story is based on logic and maths. The first book is loosely based around a pack of cards, and 'Through the looking Glass' takes its inspiration from a chess game.
The scene in the first book where Alice meets the caterpillar is a reference to drugs, as he is smoking a hookah and sat on a mushroom which Alice eats from to change her size Magic Mushrooms, anyone? De Morgan had proposed a more modern approach to algebra, which held that any procedure was valid as long as it followed an internal logic. He explained that even though algebra had been reduced to a seemingly absurd but logical set of operations, eventually some sort of meaning would be restored.
Such loose mathematical reasoning would have riled a punctilious logician like Dodgson. Alice has slid down from a world governed by the logic of universal arithmetic to one where her size can vary from nine feet to three inches. Alice eats a bit of mushroom and her neck elongates like a serpent, annoying a nesting pigeon. Eventually, though, she finds a way to nibble herself down to nine inches, and enters a little house where she finds the Duchess, her baby, the Cook and the Cheshire Cat.
Also, it is just a story, and as the metaphors used in it are primarily creative metaphors then the meaning can vary from reader to reader, and the interpretations are virtually infinite. Any meaning, explanation, or view a reader has on the story is correct, as he never wrote that "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland mean THIS".
He also wrote the book in the and LSD wasn't even synthesized until the 's so he obviously had no idea what an acid trip even felt like. I really liked this essay. We are doing the children's play this year with our youth group and one of the board members said that she hates Alice in Wonderland because it doesn't make any sense.
I am glad I found this essay because now I can tell this board member that there can be a very good lesson taken from this story. Alic in Wonderland is not about drugs!
Lewis Caroll was a mathematicion who wrote the book about abstract math. He also wrote this for a little girl, the child of a friend, named Alice Liddel. That's why the characters are fun for kids. Lewis Caroll was into Mysticism. I believe that the story is about the journey of the soul and it's fall into exile, into the forgetting of it's true identity, and it's yearning to get back to the "GArden" of Unity and oneness again.
Alice trying to get to the Garden of Live Flowers. It's about a spiritual journey thru the underworld of the unconscious to confront the dark powers that be and emerge a liberated and empowered person who knows who she is.
The Red Queen is like the dark mother, and like the system that keeps people cowering in fear of death without thinking for themselves. Alice defeats all these forces, returns to oneness with nature in the garden, and becomes Queen, Sophia Queen of Heaven where she is free of the b.
Good stories and poems provides unlimited possibilities of interpretation. No matter how you interpret it, it is right in ts own way. Each time you read, you will get new meanings for them. There is a saying, "You cannot cross flowing river twice", because each time you cross, you are crossing a new river water. The recent movie was terrible. I liked the cartoon and past movies that were made though. It has always been one of my favorite stories since I was little, for sure.
Great stories, Harry Potter doesn't compare :. That realy opend up the story to me i didn't know what it realy meant until i read this tanks a lot. Alice in Wonderland was originally written as a political satire - all the 'drug' theories are there to distract us from the true meaning. The new movie is particularly telling now that the Lisbon Treaty has been ratified in Europe. It appears to be beautiful and desirable at first but is actually more out of control, frightening and cruel than the 'real' world.
It is a world of madness and unhappiness. The few good people to be found in it, such as the Mad Hatter or Good Witch of the North are ineffective and powerless. Alice has lost her sense of identity just as Dorothy was lost and only the Mad Hatter is absolutely sure but becomes angry when he realises how much she has changed. He tells her she has lost her "muchness" and that she used to be "muchier" - the correct adjective should be "great" in that she has lost her greatness.
This refers to Great Britain of old. The group known as 'Faction 1' controls these countries and also Germany and Austria. This group is represented by the Red Queen who is ridiculed in the movie - she is big-headed, likes her pies, her pig and her fat boys.
She is an egotistical tyrant who mercilessly kills people by cutting off their heads significant but all the time is surrounded by sychophants who are terrified of her. Alice, the symbol of the old Great Britain is helped by the red-headed also significant Mad Hatter who represents Faction 2 who control Scotland and America. He is impoverished, powerless and cannot be himself in this land controlled by the Red Queen, but he can't help his true nature coming out when he is angered and he changes to his true Scottish accent.
He is remembering the old days and the story of George and the Dragon - a time when Great Britain was much "muchier". It is a great shame that Tim Burton has had to shroud this call-to-arms in such a way that people don't understand it - at a time when the Europeans so desperately need to understand that they are heading into a full-on political nightmare. Nothing at all to do with acid trips and drugs. Silly, silly, silly. It is simply a children's story from a time when people actually had imagination.
But if the most you can imagine is drugs, then I doubt you will be convinced by this. Alice in wonderland is based on drugs. The queen yelling "off with the head" is symbolizing a bad trip. The whole theme of "alice" a young girl is symbolizing a young lady going down the road of drugs. When Alice first gets to wonderland she is small then big then small and etc Chairs are moving, animals are talking, cards are dancing around and bein creepers And any theory of what wonderland is about could be true I do still think the book and the old movie need A LOT of work.
But the new alice in wonderland looks super cool! Cant wait 2 c it on sunday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I thought the movie was drug related because of all the "hallucinations" and the fact that she is eating a cookie that makes her in a different state of mind, and a drink that makes her change as well I don't truly know what this movie is about but I know that was a lot of confusion on it so I just thought i should put that out there.
Regardless of WHO was reading it, it was an excellent way to open up the depth of one of my favorite childhood stories! I loved the hub. Many of the classic stories and fables have a much deeper meaning. I have been enjoying looking at many of the dark fairy tales of late. Over the years, many people have thought there are several allusions to drugs and drug use. There's the trippy Cheshire Cat and the caterpillar, not to mention Alice's whole adventure being like a giant hallucination.
Consequently, people have questioned whether Carroll, himself, was on drugs and perhaps this whole story was the tale of one of his 'trips. While a theme or a motif in literature isn't exactly a 'hidden meaning,' many students struggle to find the themes within a book.
While the themes in any given piece of literature can be debatable, most scholars agree Alice in Wonderland at least touches on several themes having to do with childhood, curiosity, and abandonment. One reason Alice in Wonderland has withstood the test of time is because people still debate about what it means. There are a variety of interpretations of this classic children's novel.
Was it merely a lot of imaginative storytelling, or are there deeper, hidden meanings? While no one will ever know for sure, literary scholars are sure to debate about it for years to come. Children's Books Fairy Tales, Fables, and Poems Alice in Wonderland Hidden Meanings Alice in Wonderland , on its surface, is about a girl who falls asleep and dreams of a fantastical world in which she gets lost.
Loss of Childhood Innocence One common idea in the book is that it is a journey of a girl losing her childhood innocence and naivete. Political Allegory Some scholars have suggested Alice in Wonderland is a classic allegory where Wonderland is England, and the Queen of Hearts is the tyrant on the throne.
Lesson on Colonization Another often cited possibility for the story is that it is a parable on colonization and the calamity that comes from going to a foreign land and imposing one's values. Drugs Over the years, many people have thought there are several allusions to drugs and drug use. Themes and Motifs While a theme or a motif in literature isn't exactly a 'hidden meaning,' many students struggle to find the themes within a book.
Reaching maturity - Perhaps this is the least hidden theme of Alice in Wonderland , as readers watch Alice move from being childlike in her observations to more mature and rational. A Duchess who is determined to find a moral in everything. Trials that seem to be very unjust. But during the journey through Wonderland, Alice learns to understand the adult world somewhat more.
In fact, she is growing up. This is also represented by her physical changes during the story, the growing and shrinking. More and more she starts to understand the creatures that live in Wonderland.
She learns to cope with the crazy Wonderland rules, and during the story she gets better in managing the situation. In the end Alice has adapted and lost most of her vivid imagination that comes with childhood. In Wonderland, Alice struggles with the importance and instability of personal identity. She is constantly ordered to identify herself by the creatures she meets, but she herself has doubts about her identity as well.
After falling through the Rabbit hole, Alice tests her knowledge to determine whether she has become another girl. Later on, the White Rabbit mistakes her for his maid Mary Ann. When the Caterpillar asks her who she is, she is unable to answer, as she feels that she has changed several times since that morning. Among other things, this doubt about her identity is nourished by her physical appearance.
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