What does the Cheshire Cat say to Alice on directions?
`Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'
`That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat.
`I don't much care where--' said Alice.
`Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.
`--so long as I get SOMEWHERE,' Alice added as an explanation.
`Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, `if you only walk long enough.'
Alice felt that this could not be denied, so she tried another question. `What sort of people live about here?'
`In THAT direction,' the Cat said, waving its right paw round, `lives a Hatter: and in THAT direction,' waving the other paw, `lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they're both mad.'
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Why does Alice grow taller when she eats the cake marked eat me?
In the book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice eats two cakes, the first causes her to grow, and the second makes her shrink.
She eats the first cake in the corridor of doors:
"Soon her eye fell on a little glass box that was lying under the table: she opened it, and found in it a very small cake, on which the words `EAT ME' were beautifully marked in currants. `Well, I'll eat it,' said Alice, `and if it makes me grow larger, I can reach the key; and if it makes me grow smaller, I can creep under the door; so either way I'll get into the garden, and I don't care which happens!'
She ate a little bit, and said anxiously to herself, `Which way? Which way?', holding her hand on the top of her head to feel which way it was growing, and she was quite surprised to find that she remained the same size: to be sure, this generally happens when one eats cake, but Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.
So she set to work, and very soon finished off the cake.
`Curiouser and curiouser!' cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English); `now I'm opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Good-bye, feet!' (for when she looked down at her feet, they seemed to be almost out of sight, they were getting so far off). `Oh, my poor little feet, I wonder who will put on your shoes and stockings for you now, dears? I'm sure I shan't be able! I shall be a great deal too far off to trouble myself about you: you must manage the best way you can; --but I must be kind to them,' thought Alice, `or perhaps they won't walk the way I want to go! Let me see: I'll give them a new pair of boots every Christmas.' "
She eats the second cake while trapped in the White Rabbit's house:
"Alice noticed with some surprise that the pebbles were all turning into little cakes as they lay on the floor, and a bright idea came into her head. `If I eat one of these cakes,' she thought, `it's sure to make SOME change in my size; and as it can't possibly make me larger, it must make me smaller, I suppose.'
So she swallowed one of the cakes, and was delighted to find that she began shrinking directly. As soon as she was small enough to get through the door, she ran out of the house, and found quite a crowd of little animals and birds waiting outside. The poor little Lizard, Bill, was in the middle, being held up by two guinea-pigs, who were giving it something out of a bottle. They all made a rush at Alice the moment she appeared; but she ran off as hard as she could, and soon found herself safe in a thick wood."
What color are Alice's stockings in Alice in Wonderland?
In the 1951 Disney animation, Alice's stockings are white.
In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll doesn't specify the colour of Alice's stockings, but in Chapter 3 of his book The Nursery Alice, he says her stockings are blue.Doesn't Alice look pretty, as she swims across the picture? You can just see her blue stockings, far away under the water.
Who did Alice work for in Alice in Wonderland?
she worksed for her dads boss and slayed the jaberwoki
What was stolen from the Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland?
The Queen of Hearts is a playing card come to life so, in Tenniel's illustrations of her, she looks like a queen of hearts in a standard deck.
See Related Link - Tenniel's Queen of Hearts
See Related Link - Queen of Hearts Playing Card
The costume of both the card and the character is based on Tudor dress - the costume worn in the Tudor period, 1485 - 1603. Noble ladies would wear a long, full dress with long sleeves and an angular headdress, known as a gable hood.
See Related Link - A Tudor lady
In the 1951 Disney version of Alice in Wonderland, the Queen's costume is based less on the playing card and more on the Queen of Hearts' character.
See Related Link - Disney's Queen of Hearts
She wears a long, full dress in a geometric design in black and red, with a black and yellow geometric design on the front of the skirt and an abstracted heart design on the bodice. She also wears a small yellow/golden crown and a high, white collar, which is reminiscent of the collar worn by the Evil Queen in Disney's 1937 movie Snow White. Disney seems to use the collar to indicate a villainous character with royal status.
See Related Link - The Evil Queen from Disney's Snow White
Both Disney's and Tenniel's Queens carry a short sceptre topped with a large heart.
What can you learn from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?
An excerpt is defined as a 'passage or segment taken from a longer work, such as a literary or musical composition, a document, or a film.'
source: the free online dictionary, see related link
So, from the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, an example of an excerpt could be:
The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good- natured, she thought: still it had VERY long claws and a great many teeth, so she felt that it ought to be treated with respect.
`Cheshire Puss,' she began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether it would like the name: however, it only grinned a little wider. `Come, it's pleased so far,' thought Alice, and she went on. `Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'
`That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat.
`I don't much care where--' said Alice.
`Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.
`--so long as I get SOMEWHERE,' Alice added as an explanation.
`Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, `if you only walk long enough.'
Alice felt that this could not be denied, so she tried another question. `What sort of people live about here?'
`In THAT direction,' the Cat said, waving its right paw round, `lives a Hatter: and in THAT direction,' waving the other paw, `lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they're both mad.'
`But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
`How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
`You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
Does it say 10 31 on the mad hatters hat?
No, it doesn't it actually has the numbers 10 6 but as a fraction. 10/6
What are the release dates for Carol Channing's Mad English Tea Party - 1970 - TV?
Carol Channing's Mad English Tea Party - 1970 - TV was released on:
USA: 9 September 1970
UK: 19 December 1970
What is the comparison between 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' and 'Alice in Wonderland'?
Superficial similarity in main character and plot is the comparison between "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" and "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland."
Specifically, the main character in each story is a little girl. It involves Dorothy in "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" and Alice in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." The main plot likewise revolves around getting lost in a magical land and successfully finding one's way back home. Thus Dorothy spends time in the magical lands of Oz, and Alice wanders through the lands at the end of the rabbit hole, until each other gets back home.
Was The Doorknob in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland?
None of the doors in Alice in Wonderland have a name.
In Disney's 1951 animation Alice meets a talking doorknob. It has no name either and is simply called 'Doorknob'.
What is the worm's name in Alice in Wonderland?
In the original book Alice meets two mice; the mouse which she meets in the pool of tears is simply called 'the Mouse' and the dormouse which she encounters at the mad tea party is called 'the Dormouse'.
In Tim Burton's 2010 film, the dormouse has been named Mallymkun, and is played by Barbara Windsor.
Who was in the teapot in Alice in Wonderland?
The Dormouse is asleep when Alice arrives at the party and falls asleep twice while she is there.
There was a table set out under a tree in front of the house, and the March Hare and the Hatter were having tea at it: a Dormouse was sitting between them, fast asleep, and the other two were using it as a cushion, resting their elbows on it, and the talking over its head.
....`You might just as well say,' added the Dormouse, who seemed to be talking in his sleep, `that "I breathe when I sleep" is the same thing as "I sleep when I breathe"!'
`It IS the same thing with you,' said the Hatter
....`The Dormouse is asleep again,' said the Hatter, and he poured a little hot tea upon its nose.
....This piece of rudeness was more than Alice could bear: she got up in great disgust, and walked off; the Dormouse fell asleep instantly, and neither of the others took the least notice of her going, though she looked back once or twice, half hoping that they would call after her...
How tall is Alice in Wonderland?
Alice's height varies tremendously throughout the course of the story, and after some of her changes Lewis Carroll tells us how tall she is.
After her first change she is only ten inches high, after her second, she's over nine foot. When she meets the Caterpillar, both she and it are three inches tall and when she meets the Duchess she is nine inches. Before she attends the Mad Tea Party, she nibbles some mushroom so that she is two foot high, and when she finds herself back at the door to the beautiful garden, she nibbles some more so that she is a foot tall and can fit through.
What Carroll never tells us, however, is how tall Alice is when she starts out and takes that first, fateful trip down the rabbit hole.
Which play does the quote 'Off with his head' come from?
The earliest known use of the phrase "off with his head" appears to come from Shakespeare. Queen Margaret says it in Henry VI and Richard says it in Richard III.
The phrase was popularised by its appearance in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, in which the Queen of Hearts says it numerous times.
It is, of course, a reference to execution by means of decapitation.
What are the Cheshire Cat's two main colors?
Lerwis Carroll didn't specify the Cheshire Cat's colour, but in his coloured illustrations of him, John Tenniel depicts him as brown. (see related link, below)
In Disney's 1951 animation the Cheshire Cat is pink with purple stripes and in Tim Burton's 2010 movie he is grey with blue stripes.
Who takes Alice through the forest in Alice in Wonderland?
Alice was essentially alone, both when she entered and travelled through Wonderland. However, she followed the White Rabbit into Wonderland, so it could be argued that she entered with him.
What is significant about the title of Alice in Wonderland?
Lewis Carroll's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandhas been adapted for the stage numerous times.
The play versions follow the same story as the book:
A little girl called Alice is surprised one day when she sees a white rabbit with a watch, wearing a waistcoat. She follows the rabbit into its warren, which leads her into a magical place called Wonderland. She sees a beautiful garden through a tiny door which she would like to visit, but she is too big to fit through the door, so she can't. She finds foods and drinks which cause her to shrink and grow, and she meets an array of bewildering characters, who are often quite rude. Once she has learned to control her size, she finds the little door again, and enters the lovely garden, where she meets the Queen of Hearts, who she plays at croquet. After meeting some more people, she finds herself at a ridiculous trial, where nothing makes any sense. She grows angry with the silliness of the Wonderland people and confronts them. They attack her, only for her to suddenly wake up and realise that her adventures in Wonderland were just a dream.
What actors and actresses appeared in Mad Mad Wagon Party - 2010?
The cast of Mad Mad Wagon Party - 2010 includes: Shane Dean as Foster Drinkwell Laura Durant as Agnes Merryweather Nick Fenske as KPIG Radio Announcer Slade Hall as Diamond Jim Kowboy Kal as Lyle Linda Kay Gross as Mean Lady George Kennedy as JB Scotch Jon Locke Rusty Locke as Bud Cheryl McIntire as Miss Kitty Rosalie Michaels as Poppins - Mary Kevin Porter as Jack Cathy Rankin as Imma Whore Jose Rosete as Bruno Gambini Fred Smoot as Don Knots Gregory Sweet as Moses Merryweather Tara Wise as Stella Heather Woods as Hooker
What is the name of the queen in Alice in Wonderland?
In the original book the queen is called the Queen of Hearts.
In movie adaptions her character is sometimes merged with the Red Queen, who originally appeared in Through the Looking Glass and was a completely separate person.
Tim Burton's 2010 movie features the Red Queen and the White Queen. They have named the Red Queen, Iracebeth of Crims and the White Queen, Mirana of Marmoreal.
How many times does Alice change sizes in the book Alice in Wonderland?
In the book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice changes size twelve times.
What is mad hatters real name?
He's Jervis Tetch, a crazy man with an obsession with hats and a tendency to to make all his plans rela to Alice in Wonderland. For example, he once threw a tea party at which he had himself, a hostage, and (when he arrived) Batman play the parts of the mad hatter, the mouse, and the march hare. During no man's land he pretty much focused on recovering his extensive collection of hats.
What is Alice in Wonderland REALLY about?
What Alice in Wonderland is really about is a question which provokes a great deal of debate.
There is a school of thought which believes the entire story is a metaphor for drugs and drug use; the principal evidence for this being the Caterpillar's hookah, and the mushroom on which he is sitting - the consumption of which causes the distortion of Alice's body, which could be compared to the visual effects of hallucinogenic drugs.
The behaviour of some of the characters is also sometimes explained in terms of drug use; both the Caterpillar's and the Dormouse's languor might be attributable to marijuana or some form of opiate, and it has been suggested that the White Rabbit's rushing around is caused by, or is symbolic of cocaine.
LSD is also frequently mentioned in relation to Alice in Wonderland, as the colourful, confusing and distorted nature of Wonderland seems comparable to an acid trip.
It can be categorically stated however, that Alice in Wonderland has nothing whatsoever to do with either cocaine or LSD, as cocaine had only been recently invented at the time the book was written and had not begun to be used even in a medicinal context, and LSD wasn't invented til decades later in the mid twentieth century.
Marijuana, opiates and hallucinogenic mushrooms however, were both available and legal when the book was written, so may have had some influence on the story.
Most critics and scholars eschew the claims of a connection between Alice in Wonderland and drugs, believing the book to be what it appears, an innocent tale written for the amusement of children. Unlike other writers associated with recreational drug use - Samuel Taylor Coleridge for example - there is no evidence that Lewis Carroll either took or was even interested in the effects of narcotics, and as he was a conservative mathematician and Anglican deacon, find it hard to reconcile his character with that of the archetypal rock 'n' roll drugs fiend.
There is no real evidence that Alice in Wonderland is about drugs, but similarly there is no proof that it isn't, and so, the debate seems destined to carry on.
Alice in Wonderland is indeed about drugs. My teacher believes its about drugs to. I mean following the white rabbit, eating mushrooms, shrinking, it's all hallucinations. Disney just messed with it and made it seem like its not about drugs.
"Alice in Wonderland is a perfect, down-to-earth example of childhood through adolescence. Just as a child's life is filled with good and bad choices, hers is too. As most do, Alice learns from her experiences and ultimately becomes more mature. Alice in Wonderland has many connections to how one grows and develops from childhood up through adolescence. Alice matures emotionally by how she thinks, how she deals with her problems, and how she perceives different situations, all of which are encompassed in the progression of a child."
What did the cake on the table do to Alice in Alice in Wonderland?
Alice never finds a cake on a table in the book Alice in Wonderland.
She finds a cake under a table, which causes her to grow and some pebbles which have turned into cakes which cause her to shrink.
Soon her eye fell on a little glass box that was lying under the table: she opened it, and found in it a very small cake....She ate a little bit, and said anxiously to herself, `Which way? Which way?', holding her hand on the top of her head to feel which way it was growing....`Curiouser and curiouser!' cried Alice....`now I'm opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Good-bye, feet!'
Alice noticed with some surprise that the pebbles were all turning into little cakes as they lay on the floor, and a bright idea came into her head. `If I eat one of these cakes,' she thought, `it's sure to make SOME change in my size; and as it can't possibly make me larger, it must make me smaller, I suppose.'
So she swallowed one of the cakes, and was delighted to find that she began shrinking directly.
What is the motto of Adventure Wonderland?
The motto of Adventure Wonderland is 'Whatever the weather ... guaranteed fun!'.
What suit are the gardeners in Alice in Wonderland?
In Lewis Carroll's original book, the gardeners are spades, as each suit has a different job in Alice in Wonderland. Clubs are guards, diamonds are courtiers, and hearts are the royal family.
In the 1951 Disney adaptation, the gardeners are clubs.