...In Lewis Carroll's novel Alice in Wonderland, Alice is curious, well-mannered, and confused while she tries to find her way out of Wonderland. Alice meets many unique and weird creatures which eventually help her escape wonderland. Alice shows that she is curious through her actions. At the beginning of the book Alice gets distracted from her "boring" work, and chases a white rabbit down a hole. This excerpt describes Alices curiosity, "Alice started to her feet, for it flashed in her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket". When Alice is at the bottom of the hole she find a bottle labeled "Drink Me", she wants to see what it tastes like, this excerpt describes the event "...this bottle was not marked `poison', so Alice ventured to taste it, finding it very nice". Another instant that shows her curiosity when she looks for the white rabbits fan and gloves, she finds a bottle, this time there was no table, "There was no label this time with the words `Drink Me' ... `I know something interesting is going to happen' ... ` I'll just see what it does',". Alice is like a little girl that is still exploring the world around her, but she finds that she is more mature than the creatures in Wonderland. Alice is very well mannered in Victorian ways to the creatures of Wonderland. Alice shows her good manners when she enters the white rabbits house and the rabbit tells Alice to go fetch his gloves and fan, "I'd better take his...
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...Assignment 2: Alice In Wonderland 1. Comment on Emma’s different approach As a Managing Director of Luijk & Van Vaest in December 1995, a Dutch company in the parcel shipping business, she does not have experience in the shipping line. In the first day, she starts her presentation and wanted to build trust in her team. Her suggestion is to encourage people or employee to trust her. Besides, she has suggested some ways to build up trustee between each other. Walking The Talk Emma as a new Managing Director of L&VV, she plans to meet every level of staffs as many as she can, understand and listen to them, talk to them as well. Furthermore, she travelled around the country to all the local sub regions and talk with the management teams. She needs them to talk with her everything, what is the future of a company, what was wrong for the past and what should be changed. She work with parcel sorting personnel in the hubs and terminals to understand their needs and what is their comments on L&VV. Every time she has a regional meeting, she will walk around to the regional terminal before half an hour early and talk with the people on the shop floor. Since has many visiting, the people on the shop floor turned out to be very educational and practical. Feelings Are Facts Another of Emma’s early moves was Emma reshape her management team and needed to trust each other completely. Otherwise, Emma emphasizes the importance of a group as a real team in functioning...
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...change a few times since then.” –Alice in Wonderland “I knew who I was this morning, but I’ve change a few times since then.” –Alice in Wonderland “I knew who I was this morning, but I’ve change a few times since then.” –Alice in Wonderland “I knew who I was this morning, but I’ve change a few times since then.” –Alice in Wonderland “I knew who I was this morning, but I’ve change a few times since then.” –Alice in Wonderland “I knew who I was this morning, but I’ve change a few times since then.” –Alice in Wonderland “I knew who I was this morning, but I’ve change a few times since then.” –Alice in Wonderland “I knew who I was this morning, but I’ve change a few times since then.” –Alice in Wonderland “I knew who I was this morning, but I’ve change a few times since then.” –Alice in Wonderland “I knew who I was this morning, but I’ve change a few times since then.” –Alice in Wonderland “I knew who I was this morning, but I’ve change a few times since then.” –Alice in Wonderland “I knew who I was this morning, but I’ve change a few times since then.” –Alice in Wonderland “I knew who I was this morning, but I’ve change a few times since then.” –Alice in Wonderland “I knew who I was this morning, but I’ve change a few times since then.” –Alice in Wonderland “I knew who I was this morning, but I’ve change a few times since then.” –Alice in Wonderland “I knew who I was this morning, but I’ve change a few times since then.” –Alice in Wonderland “I knew who I was this morning...
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...Lewis Carroll’s book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland the main character Alice, goes through a variety of size changes that can be compared to her transition from childhood into adulthood. Alice stumbles into a rabbit hole as an innocent 7-year-old girl who discovers her identity crisis and who leaves Wonderland as a mature young adult with nothing more but the memories of the “dream of Wonderland” (Carroll 110). We can see Alice’s struggle to identify herself as her body size keeps changing just like a kid who is going through puberty, she does not know what to expect next. These experiences provide Alice with a different perspective on Wonderland and lead her to a maturing process from the crying, stubborn Alice in the beginning to the self-powered Alice who stood up for herself in the final trial. The transition has been represented in some of the different adaptations the book has had. Although Alice’s size changes in Carroll's text Alice in Wonderland illustrate her maturation, in both Disney's (1951) and Jan Svankmajer's adaptations, size changes do not emphasize maturation; they have a different purpose. Alice grew and shrunk throughout various scenes in both adaptations, but at the end of both movies she remained the same childish Alice that once stumbled upon a rabbit hole. Both adaptations emphasize Alice’s childishness in order to attract a larger audience, but at the same time a younger audience that can relate with what Alice is going through. Figure 1: (Leavens) ...
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...Adventures in Wonderland, Alice goes through many physcial changes. In this journey, the human body continually undergoes pattern of physical, mental, and social changes.Lewis Carrol's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland which is a land of wonders of strange creatures doing weird things. Alice's imagination takes her through a great journey, she visits wonderland and has a great deal of changes occur in her life by experiencing the wonders in wonderland. Throughout Alice's adventures, Alice cannot escape from the loneliness. She only had her cats to give her company, nobody else to talk to. She couldn't communicate to anyone about her feelings or anything. Alice felt out of place and did not have anyone to talk to and became sad very often. Which is completely natural when you don't have anyone to talk to and express your feelings, one feels disconnected from the world and it really messes up your brain because it very important let your feelings out to someone. The only person who showed some affection for Alice was the White Knight, who left her right when she reached the eighth square and she must become the Queen. Lonliness was a big part of Alice's life, but she believes lonliness is an important part of growing up, even in her dreams she faces womanhood alone. Whenever we look into a mirror we see ourself. Mirror images are our own reflections, they are the oppostite of what people see. You see what people see when they look at us in the mirror. In the story Alice sees the...
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...Alice Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll, is a story that certainly includes very eccentric characters. It is probable that many of us posses a mixture of some of the characters personalities. However it is likely that one of the characters exhibits personality traits closely resembling ours. Although I don’t consider myself as naïve as Alice, I believe I can resemble myself on Alice’s personality, mainly because of her kind heart and her courage to face strange situations. Although Alice felt hesitant at times to jump into new adventures, she was never afraid to try new experiences, characteristic I can easily relate to. I believe that for one to explore new experiences, it takes courage, and just as it happened to Alice, when jumping into new experiences/adventures we get to discover who we really are, and it help us mature. As much as we learn Alice Adventures where merely a dream, as reader we are able to perceive a sense of maturity in Alice by the end of the story. To me Life is full of adventures, perhaps one immense magnificent adventure, and the one thing is needed to succeed is have the willingness to adapt to unfamiliar situations. Being polite and courteous is all about being considerate and appreciative, even though it could be challenging for some people. I think of being polite and courteous as a quality of my own, or I at least I put much effort to accomplish being polite and courteous to others. Alice throughout her adventure showed her politeness and...
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...Twelve Mark Question How does Orwell manage to make surveillance seem a negative thing? Morrison makes the passage very negative by giving a one sided argument against the multitude of surveillance cameras. He shows his personal views giving the impression of negativity as this is the only source of feeling towards that particular person. ‘Made by a sinister Minister of Internal Repression.’ Using the shocking story of the suicide on BBC News tries to persuade the reader that surveillance is used as cruel bait for prime time television for the rest of the nation to gawp at this man’s final moments. The only argument (which is trying to give the reader little reason to decide if it is justifiable) against the passages main approach is written to explain furthermore the corruptness of CCTV. He states the Data Protection Act is a false veil that the government has given out as an attempt to show their information is valued. However this is not the case as Morrison says, it leaves the person with a bad record. ‘If you exercise this right you may find it difficult to get a job, credit card or a mortgage.’ This is also a rule of three to emphasise how many problems this can cause you. Morrison uses the size and control surveillance cameras have over our society as a negative remark. He uses many words to emphasise how already they are entering our own personal lives. Using the word ‘enormous’ shows the seriousness and intention of what he thinks the government are trying to do and...
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...films one his most recent ones being “Alice in Wonderland”. Tim has many techniques that are unique to his personal style that are shown in this film. Not only the way that this was filmed, but also the idea of the film is distinct to Burton’s director techniques. Burton made a film off the movie Alice in Wonderland, and put his own spin on things, Alice revisits wonderland 13 years later, revisiting her old friends and realizing her true destiny. Alice is caught between two worlds, the real world and her dream world, that she later learns that both worlds had interlocking meanings. You can tell that Tim directed this film, because of the settings, themes, and special affects. This movie is a very enjoyable one. Tim Burton did an excellent job of directing. Alice realizes at her engagement party that its not meant for her to get married, she follows a bunny into a hole leading her to under land, not remembering that she had been there in the past. Her old friends aren’t sure if it’s the real Alice or not because she is so much older, but after she starts to go along with it, she is able to defeat the Red Queen and become the savior. Although, her friends don’t want her to leave, she returns back to the real world and takes what she learned from under land back with her. Tim Burton movies are one of a kind mainly because of his settings. He is known for always having dark, dreary settings, which is clearly shown in Alice in Wonderland. Most of the scenes are gloomy and dull...
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...read The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland, written by Lewis Carroll. Alice follows a rabbit down a hole and escapes to a crazy world full of talking animals, living playing cards and disappearing smiling cats. Often literature that is so far off from real life, it trying to symbolize problems with the real world. maybe not. If Lewis Carroll doing this in Alice? Perhaps, but The popular scene in chapter 5 at the Mad Hatter’s tea party shows 3 themes that could symbolize something in real life. Three possible symbolic themes from the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party include: nonsense, rudeness, and meanness. Nonsense is used without the book, but at the tea party. Toward the end of the party the March Hare tells Alice to take the some more tea. She replies that she can’t take more because she hasn’t had any yet. The Hatter jumps in and replies “ You can’t take less, it is very easy to take more than nothing.” That was obviously a nonsense statement. Another nonsense part of the tea party is when they are talking about the purpose of a watch. After Alice points out how strange March Hare’s watch is in that is tells the day of the month but not the time, the Hatter jumps in and asks “Why should it? Does your watch tell what year it is?” Alice tries to explain that a year lasts a long time and you don’t need a watch to know the year. The Hatter again replies with nonsense Xxxxxxx 2 saying, “Which is just the case with mine.” Alice knows the Hatter is speaking...
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...Prazeres Análise – Aventuras de Alice Marcelo Augusto Boujikian Felippe – nº USP 7192766 Comece pelo começo e continue até chegar ao fim, então pare. Esta análise pretende evidenciar o modo pelo qual as Aventuras de Alice se destinam especialmente para crianças, e, por conseguinte, que todo olhar para a obra deve ter em conta esse endereçamento específico, ainda que adultos constantemente se interessem pelas leituras, e que se identifiquem com elas em muitos aspectos que uma criança não pode apreender. O poema introdutório ao livro “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (1) deixa essa intenção bem clara, ao evocar o cenário que inspirou a criação da narrativa. No entanto, alguns críticos têm preferido um foco no caráter rigidamente referenciado do enredo e das personagens; o que é sem dúvida crucial, mas quais referências provocam um alento à difícil tarefa de organizar os conteúdos inconscientes de uma criança qualquer? O meio mais eficaz de falar a elas através da literatura tem sido comprovadamente a contação de histórias de fadas, porque estas possuem uma estrutura narrativa psicologicamente adequada para a criança. Funcionam, à maneira do sonho para o adulto, como a realização de um desejo; além disso, sugerem meios de solucionar os problemas e projetam o alívio de todas as pressões que são típicas do desenvolvimento humano. Buscando semelhanças com as histórias de fadas é que se tentará reaproximar a obra do gênero infantil. As Aventuras de Alice têm contra si o fato de corresponderem...
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...first watched the movie Alice in Wonderland. One thing I noticed, while I watched the movie for a second time, was how closely it followed the hero’s journey. The hero’s journey is a theory that all common great stories follow. The theory was constructed by a man named Joseph Campbell, who wrote about the subject in his book “A Hero with a Thousand Faces”. The book explains the 12 steps that almost all hero’s follow. These steps can be interpreted in many ways, but the most critical steps usually include the call to adventure, crossing the threshold, challenges and temptations, helper or mentor, death and rebirth, and lastly, the return. Over all, I think Alice in Wonderland is a great example of how movies, books, and everyday life, follows the hero’s journey. In my opinion, the call to adventure for Alice happened several times before she finally crossed the...
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...truly believe that Alice in Wonderland is a story of youth coming to adulthood and the many decisions and obstacles that we must face as we step foot into the adult world. Going "down the rabbit hole" has become a familiar allegory, symbolizing everything from exploring a new world to taking drugs to exploring anything unknown. In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland the rabbit hole is the place where it all starts, a gateway to...
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...Alice in Wonderland – Book Review Alice and Wonderland is a novel written by a man named Lewis Carroll (real name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson). It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into this fantasy ‘wonderland’. This novel tells us about Alice’s weird and wonderful adventures down the rabbit hole and the unusual characters she encounters. She follows a white rabbit that was talking to himself, wearing a waistcoat and had a pocket watch, down the rabbit hole. She fell a long time through this tunnel and fell into a hall of doors. On the table in the middle of the room for a tiny door, on the other side of the door is a garden that Alice wants to get to. On the table, Alice finds a bottle with ‘DRINK ME’ on it, this makes her small, but then she finds a cake, which says ‘EAT ME’ on it, which makes her grow until her head hit the ceiling. Thus begins the series of shape change for Alice. The shape change confuses Alice and she gets up set, she cries and floods the room. As she shrinks she is forced to swim in her own tears and is soon joined by a number of other animals. They get out of the water and the mouse tells a story to a caucus race to dry all of the animals off.. Once Alice is dry, she enters the garden where she goes into a house and drinks from the bottle to make herself grow again, but this makes her too big, too big that she cannot get out of the house. Animals start to gather to make her leave, they throw pebbles at her (which are...
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...“White Rabbit” is a direct reference to the white rabbit that Alice follows down the rabbit hole in Alice in Wonderland. From there, the similarities only increase. Take the first two lines for example. “One pill makes you larger / And one pill makes you small” is a direct reference to the very first chapter, "Down the Rabbit Hole". In it Alice finds a liquid labelled "Drink Me" which causes her to shrink. She then ingests a cake labelled "Eat Me," which she discovers in Chapter Two that makes her grow (Towles). Meanwhile, “The ones that that mother gives you / Don't do anything at all”. Slick addresses this in her autobiography, saying “In part the lyrics allude to the hypocrisy of the older generation swilling one of the hardest drugs – alcohol – known to man, but telling us not to use psychedelics. Well, how about their medicine chests?” The song goes on to reference the caterpillar, the White Knight, the Red Queen, and finally, Alice (Towles). Alice herself is referenced several different times throughout the song, and in three out of the four...
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...Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: How does it represent Feminism in the Victorian Culture? "Gender issues play a part in every aspect of human production and experience, including the production and experience of literature, whether we are consciously aware of these issues or not"(Feminist). The book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was written by Lewis Carroll in 1865, otherwise known as the Victorian Era. Feminism at the time was not something that was spoken about, nor was that a phrase at that time. Women were expected to serve their roles in the home. Victorian feminism was subtle, but it slowly became the potent political force it is today. In the book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the novel discusses some of the gender issues at...
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