So Tim Burton's Alice takes place during her 2nd visit in Wonderland. In that visit, Alice arrives in Wonderland through the rabbit hole again and eventually returns to England by drinking the blood of the Jabberwocky. My question is how did Alice return from Wonderland from her very first visit. I don't remember anymore.
What I can recall is that she entered Wonderland through a rabbit hole just like the 2nd time and as for her departure I recall the following:. The young Alice unintentionally destroyed the Red Queen's house of cards. The Red Queen got so angry she wanted Alice's head down, she ordered to arrest her. Just as the guards grabbed Alice she managed to escape back to England. Noting that the film is a spiritual rather than literal sequel to the original Disney film and source book e.
This fairly reflects the original source novel. At this the whole pack rose up into the air, and came flying down upon her: she gave a little scream, half of fright and half of anger, and tried to beat them off, and found herself lying on the bank, with her head in the lap of her sister, who was gently brushing away some dead leaves that had fluttered down from the trees upon her face.
Here Carroll deals explicitly with her dream sequence, from start to finish. Once Alice has a verbal fight with the Queen of Hearts, and she insults the whole court with. The next thing was, Alice woke up out of her curious dream. And she found that the cards were only some leaves off the tree, that the wind had blown down upon her face.
The best plan is this. First lie down under a tree, and wait till a White Rabbit runs by, with a watch in his hand: then shut your eyes, and pretend to be dear little Alice.
Bill the lizard is sent down the chimney, but Alice kicks him out with her foot. Finally they throw a barrowful of pebbles in through the window, which change into cakes.
Alice eats one and shrinks until she is small enough to get through the door. She runs off past the group of animals into a thick wood. There, Alice finds a Puppy. She throws a stick because she wants to play with it, quite forgetting that she is now much smaller than the Puppy. She has to run away to avoid being trampled under its feet. Alice manages to escape and starts searching for something to eat which will make her grow back to her proper size.
When she looks on top of a mushroom she sees a Caterpillar sitting on it while smoking a hookah. The Caterpillar asks Alice who she is. A brief conversation follows, during which Alice gets a little irritated because the Caterpillar is rather crusty and keeps making very short remarks. Alice starts complaining that she is too small and the Caterpillar advises her to eat from the mushroom: one side will make her grow taller and the other side will make her grow shorter.
Then he crawls away. Not knowing which side makes her grow, Alice tries one part which makes her shrink until her head hits her feet. Quickly she eats from the other part which makes her grow until her head and neck rise far above the treetops. Because of her long neck a pigeon mistakes her for a serpent in search of her eggs. Alice succeeds in convincing it that she is only a little girl and eats again from the mushroom until she is reduced to her normal size.
She walks on and reaches an open place in the woods with a little house in it. As she is too big to enter, she eats from the mushroom to bring herself down to the right size. As Alice stands in front of the house, a fish-like footman comes out of the forest, knocks on the door and a frog-like footman opens. The fish-footman delivers an invitation from the Queen for the Duchess to play croquet and leaves.
The frog-footman sits on the ground outside the house. Eventually Alice opens the door herself. She finds herself in a large kitchen with the Duchess nursing a baby, a grinning Cat and a cook who is making soup. There is so much pepper in the air that everyone but the Cook and the Cat has to sneeze, and the baby howls continuously.
At once the cook starts throwing everything within her reach at the Duchess and the baby. Because she has to get ready to play croquet she throws the baby to Alice who takes it outside to save it from being killed. The baby starts grunting, turns into a pig and runs into the woods.
Alice notices the Cheshire Cat sitting on a branch of a tree and asks it which way she should go. It tells her that the March Hare and the Mad Hatter live near and disappears suddenly. It reappears to ask a question and then disappears again. Alice decides to visit the March Hare. The Cat appears for the third time, but as Alice tells him to stop appearing and vanishing so suddenly he vanishes slowly this time, leaving only his grin behind.
Alice reaches the house of the Hare, but because the house is rather big she first eats a little from the mushroom. Alice sees a large table set out under a tree in front of the house. The March Hare and the Mad Hatter are having tea at it and a Dormouse is sitting between them, fast asleep. The Hare offers her some wine, but there is only tea. But like an ordinary little girl, she feels homesick for her cat, Dinah. In that respect, she is in sharp contrast with conventional child heroines of the time.
Although Alice may be curious and sometimes bewildered, she is never too nice or too naughty. But she is always aware of her class-status as a "lady. Thus, in Chapter I, Carroll prepares us for Alice's first major confrontation with absolute chaos.
And note that Alice's literal-minded reaction to the impossible is always considered absurd here in Wonderland; it is laughable, yet it is her only way of coping. As she falls through the rabbit-hole, for instance, she wonders what latitude or longitude she has arrived at. This is humorous and ridiculous because such measurements — if one stops to think about it — are meaningless words to a seven-year-old girl, and they are certainly meaningless measurements of anything underground.
In Chapter II, Alice finds herself still in the long passageway, and the White Rabbit appears and goes off into a long, low hall full of locked doors. Behind one very small door, Alice remembers that there is "the loveliest garden you ever saw" remember, she saw this in Chapter I , but now she has drunk a liquid that has made her too large to squeeze even her head through the doorway of the garden.
She wishes that she could fold herself up like a telescope and enter. This wish becomes possible when she finds a shrinking potion and a key to the door. The potion reduces her to ten inches high, but she forgets to take the key with her! To any young child, this is silly and something to be laughed at, but on another level, there's an element of fear; for children, the predictable proportions of things are important matters of survival. Yet here in Wonderland, things change — for no known reason — thus, logic has lost all its validity.
Then Alice eats a cake that she finds, and her neck shoots up until it resembles a giraffe's. Suddenly, she is a distorted nine feet tall! Clearly, her ability to change size has been a mixed blessing. In despair, she asks, "Who in the world am I? Meanwhile, the rapid, haphazard nature of Alice's physical and emotional changes has created a dangerous pool of tears that almost causes her to drown when she shrinks again.
Why has she shrunk? She realizes that she has been holding the White Rabbit's lost white gloves and fan — therefore, it must be the magic of the fan that is causing her to shrink to almost nothingness. She saves herself by instantly dropping the fan. But now she is desperate; in vain, she searches her mind for something to make sense out of all this illogical chaos, something like arithmetic and geography, subjects that are solid, lasting, and rational.
But even they seem to be confused because no matter how much she recites their rules, nothing helps. At the close of this chapter, she is swimming desperately in a pool of her own tears, alongside a mouse and other chattering creatures that have suddenly, somehow, appeared.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is full of parody and satire. The mouse offers to dry the other creatures and Alice by telling them a very dry history of England. The Question and Answer section for Alice in Wonderland is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel. Alice ain wonderland. Why did Alice feel bored nd sleepy while keeping her sister company.
Young Alice is sitting by the river bank with her older sister, feeling bored; her sister's book has no pictures or conversation, and thus holds no interest for Alice.
Alice always seems to be too large or too small. Closely connected with growth and adulthood is size change is another recurring concept. The dramatic changes in size hint at the radical changes the body undergoes during adolescence. The key, once again, is adaptability. Alice's size changes Alice in Wonderland study guide contains a biography of Lewis Carroll, literature essays, a complete e-text, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. Alice in Wonderland essays are academic essays for citation.
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