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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Book
This category is meant to include questions about Lewis Carroll's book, not the various film adaptations.
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Who has the clock in Alice in Wonderland?
There aren't any clocks in the book Alice in Wonderland. There are, however, two watches - the White Rabbit has a pocket watch, and so does the Hatter.
In the 1951 Disney movie, only the White Rabbit has a watch.
What is the resolution in Alice in Wonderland?
A story about a girl that gets forced to marry but does not want to so runs away and falls in a hole and finds a door that leads to the red queens garden and they paint white roses RED who paints roses.
Who is the hero in Alice in Wonderland?
The original book doesn't really have a villain, in the classic sense, but the Queen of Hearts is the most unpleasant and frightening character.
In Tim Burton's recent movie, the Red Queen, Iracebeth of Crims is the villain.
What was the date of Alice in Wonderland?
The book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, is set on May 4th, but the year isn't specified.
Lewis Carroll first made up the story on July 4th, 1862, and it was first published three years later on July 4th 1865.
Disney's animated film version was released on July 26th, 1951, and Tim Burton's 3D version was released on March 5th, 2010.
Although they differ in detail, the plots of the book and 1951 Disney version of Alice in Wonderland follow pretty similar lines until after the Caucus-race. In the original book, Alice is sent to the White Rabbit's house to fetch his gloves and fan almost immediately after the race, but in the Disney version, she meets Tweedledum and Tweedledee first. They do not appear in the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, but in the book's sequel, Through the Looking Glass. In both versions, Tweedledum and Tweedledee recount the story of the Walrus and the Carpenter.
In the book, after Alice visits the White Rabbit's house, she encounters a vast puppy, (in fact, the puppy is normal sized, but Alice is very small) she tries to play with it, but it is too large. This does not happen in the Disney version, and is instead replaced by another scene from Through the Looking Glass, where Alice meets the talking flowers.
Alice meets the Caterpillar and then frightens a bird in both versions, but then there is another departure. In the book, Alice discovers the Duchess' house, sees the fish and frog footmen and meets the terrifying Duchess and her pig-baby. This is omitted in the Disney version.
Alice then meets the Cheshire Cat in both the original and the Disney adaptation, and is directed to the March Hare's house. In both versions she then visits the mad tea party, but in the Disney version, the White Rabbit also attends.
In the book, Alice finds a door which leads her to the Queen's garden as soon as she leaves the tea party, but in the Disney version she gets lost in the frightening Tulgey Wood, which borrows ideas from the poem Jabberwocky, which features in Through the Looking Glass, until the Cheshire Cat reappears, and shows her the door to the garden.
She meets the gardeners, sees the playing card people and meets the Queen of Hearts in both versions, and plays the Queen at croquet, but in the original version, this is followed by Alice meeting the Duchess again, and then the Gryphon and the Mock Turtle. All three of these characters are absent from the Disney movie.
In the book, the trial is announced, and the Gryphon drags Alice to it. In the movie, the Queen thinks that Alice has humiliated her during the croquet match, and demands that Alice be tried for it. In the book, it is not Alice who is on trial, but the Knave of Hearts who is accused of the theft of the Queen of Hearts' tarts. In the book, Alice is called as a witness.
Apart from the details, the stories culminate in much the same fashion.
What is the name of the salamander in Alice in Wonderland?
That is actually the lizard, and his name is Bill.
What are the problems and solutions in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?
It depends what you mean by 'problem'
Firstly, in the Disney version, Alice wanted to find her way home. She also wanted to find a way to get into the flower garden she glimpsed through the keyhole of the little door in the room she would later fill with tears.
From the looks of it, the story about Alice falling through a rabbit-hole and finding herself in a silly and nonsense world, is fairly guileless as a tale. The underlying story, the one about a girl maturing away from home in what seems to be a world ruled by chaos and nonsense, is quite a frightening one. All the time, Alice finds herself confronted in different situations involving various different and curious animals being all alone. She hasn't got any help at all from home or the world outside of Wonderland...
she goes home
How many versions of Alice in Wonderland are there?
In the books by Lewis Carroll, Alice went to Wonderland only once; in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. In the sequel, Through the Looking Glass, the place she visits is called the Looking-glass World.
Tim Burton's 2010 movie sees Alice making a return to visit to Wonderland, but it has been combined with the Looking-glass World and has been renamed Underland.
What does the Unicorn say to Alice in Alice in Wonderland?
The Unicorn appears in Lewis Carroll's second Alice book, Through the Looking Glass.
He is derived from a nursery rhyme which Alice recalls in Chapter 7, The Lion and The Unicorn;
The Lion and the Unicorn were fighting for the crown:
The Lion beat the Unicorn all round the town.
Some gave them white bread, some gave them brown;
Some gave them plum-cake and drummed them out of town.
In Through the Looking Glass, the Unicorn and the Lion enact this fight while Alice and the White King look on.
Alice's encounter with the Unicorn gives rise to two of Carroll's best known Wonderland quotations - 'Large as life and twice as natural' and 'If you believe in me, I'll believe in you.'
`This is a child!' Haigha replied eagerly, coming in front of Alice to introduce her, and spreading out both his hands towards her in an Anglo-Saxon attitude. `We only found it to-day. It's as large as life, and twice as natural!'
`I always thought they were fabulous monsters!' said the Unicorn. `Is at alive?'
`It can talk,' said Haigha, solemnly.
The Unicorn looked dreamily at Alice, and said `Talk, child.'
Alice could not help her lips curing up into a smile as she began: `Do you know, I always thought Unicorns were fabulous monsters, too! I never saw one alive before!'
`Well, now that we have seen each other,' said the Unicorn, `if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you. Is that a bargain?'
To see Tenniel's illustration of Alice with the Lion and the Unicorn, follow the Related Link below
What happen in Alice in Wonderland?
Alice feels frightened on several occasions in the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
- when she realises how much she's shrunk from fanning herself
- when the White Rabbit shouts at her to fetch his gloves and fan
- when confronted by the enormous puppy
- when she suddenly shrinks after nibbling the mushroom
- and when the Queen shouts at the Duchess while she's arm in arm with Alice
Who are the characters in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland?
the main characters are Alice, the queen of hearts, the mad hatter, the march hare, the caterpillar, tweedle Dee and tweedle dum, the flowers, dodo bird, the white rabbit, the cards, the king of hearts, the doorknob, and Alice's sister
Who is the narrator of Alice in Wonderland?
The author, Lewis Carroll, is the narrator in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It is told from a third person limited perspective.
What does Michael Sheen play in Alice in Wonderland?
Michael Sheen voiced the character of the White Rabbit
What does the White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland represent?
Initially, the White Rabbit is the catalyst which causes Alice's discovery of Wonderland. After having surprised Alice by taking a watch out of his pocket, the White Rabbit hurries past Alice, goes into a warren and then down the rabbit hole. She is so intrigued that she follows him, and her adventures begin.
Who does Alice meet when in Wonderland?
In Lewis Carroll's novels, Alice meets the flowers in the second book, Through the Looking Glass. Not long after she travels through the mirror she leaves the 'looking glass house' and finds herself in 'the garden of live flowers'.
In the 1951 Disney version of Alice in Wonderland, Alice discovers the flowers immediately after having been stuck in the White Rabbit's house.
Where is the Red Queen's castle in Alice in Wonderland?
The Red Queen originally appeared in Lewis Carroll's book, Through the Looking Glass which is the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. She is a chess piece, come to life. She has no name, she is just called the Red Queen.
In the film directed by Tim Burton, she has been named Iracebeth of Crims. She is the older sister of The White Queen. The Red Queen has usurped and banished the White Queen as she feels she has more right to the crown. She is played by Helena Bonham Carter.
What are the satire in Alice's adventures in wonderland?
-the rabbit hole Alice initially goes down symbolizes stairs at the back of Oxford College's main hall. Carroll also uses other parts of Oxford and Christ's Church through symbolism.
-Carroll pokes fun at mathematic revelations at that current point in time.
ex. Caterpillar scene pokes fun at the abstract parts of algebra which, like the word hookah is arabic. In fact, the literal translation of the arabic word for algebra is "restoration and reduction"
- He also uses satire in the mad hatter scene; quaternions, and the pig and pepper scene; projective geometry
Alice is then called up as a witness. She accidentally knocks over the jury box with the animals inside them and the King orders the animals be placed back into their seats before the trial continues. The King and Queen order Alice to be gone, citing Rule 42 ("All persons more than a mile high to leave the court"), but Alice disputes their judgement and refuses to leave. She argues with the King and Queen of Hearts over the ridiculous proceedings, eventually refusing to hold her tongue. The Queen shouts her familiar "Off with her head!" but Alice is unafraid, calling them out as just a pack of cards; just as they start to swarm over her. Alice's sister wakes her up for tea, brushing what turns out to be some leaves and not a shower of playing cards from Alice's face. Alice leaves her sister on the bank to imagine all the curious happenings for herself.
Who is not at the Mad Hatter's tea party in Alice in Wonderland?
Famously, in the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the only major character Alice meets which doesn't speak is the puppy. It is unusual because while Alice meets many talking, anthropomorphised animals during her adventures, the puppy behaves as a normal, real world puppy would.
There are other non speaking animals in the book, though they have very minor roles; the pig which the baby turns into doesn't say anything, and neither do the flamingo or the hedgehogs Alice encounters during the croquet match.
There are also other minor characters who do not speak, the Guinea Pigs appear twice (in the White Rabbit's garden and at the trial) but do not speak, and there are various other creatures during the trial and also the Caucus race who never get the opportunity to say anything. The majority of the playing cards who Alice sees don't speak either.
Who created Alice in Wonderland?
Both the 1951 animated Disney movie and the 2010 Tim Burton film are based on two books by Lewis Carroll; 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There'
Confusingly, these books are also sometimes jointly referred to as 'Alice in Wonderland', and, even more confusingly, sometimes just the first book, 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' is referred to as 'Alice in Wonderland'.
Why was Mary queen of scotts head choped off?
It took 3 blows of the axe before her head came off because the first 2 hit her shoulders. The embaressed executioner lifted up her head but he lifted it by her wig so it rolled all the way down the hall she was executed in and her mouth was twitching as it rolled.
What are the allegories in Alice's adventures in wonderland?
The Alice in Wonderland stories include many undertones, including criticsm of English society and politics from the time the book was written. The author mocks the attitude of the upper class using characters from Wonderland.
What do the characters in Alice in Wonderland represent?
The characters in Alice in Wonderland represent the emotion in her mind and her real life acquaintances.
Cheshire Cat- Dinah, who is Alices only friend and understands her.
In the novel, the Cheshire Cat is the first animal that Alice does not offend.
Caterpillar- The caterpillars lofty ego may represent Alice's older sister, who may be bossy.
Is it true the Alice in Wonderland characters are all on a different drug?
There is no evidence to suggest that Alice in Wonderlandis either about or influenced by narcotics.
The story was originally made up by Lewis Carroll, who was a very respectable Oxford Don and Anglican Deacon, to entertain three little girls on a rowing trip. There is no evidence that he ever took drugs, or even that he was interested in them. Carroll kept extensive diaries and wrote huge numbers of letters (which he took the trouble to catalogue) and no mention is made of drugs anywhere in his writngs. Quite a lot is known about his life and he was a very busy person who was unlikely to have had either the time or the inclination to experiment with narcotics.
It wasn't until a century after the book was written that the idea that there may be some connection with drugs started. Members of the drug taking counter culture of the nineteen-sixties noticed similarities between the hallucinogenic effects of narcotics such as LSD and the strange events in the book Alice in Wonderland, such as Alice's changes in size, and embraced the book as representing a drug taking experience. Jefferson Airplane's song White Rabbit immortalised this idea and some people have associated Alice in Wonderland with drug taking ever since.
What people tend to overlook is that drugs are not the only source of hallucinogenic effects, and the illusion of things stretching and shrinking can also be caused by neurological imbalances (which Carroll may have suffered from.) Of course the idea of a person changing sizes could also simply be created by the imagination.
Other than her changes in size, the key moment in the book that people claim is representative of drug taking is Alice's encounter with the Caterpillar. When she meets him, he is sitting on a mushroom, smoking a hookah. It is not impossible that this is a reference to drugs, but it is equally possible that it isn't. The mushroom is a common motif in fairy stories and it is more likely that this is the reason for its presence than because Carroll is alluding to the hallucinogenic effects of magic mushrooms. It is also possible that the Caterpillar is smoking opium or marijuana in his hookah, but it is just as likely that he is smoking tobacco. However, the fact that the mushroom and the hookah appear together will forever represent proof of a reference to drug taking in the minds of some readers.
If we choose to accept the hypothesis that the Caterpillar is either consuming or representative of drugs, this of course doesn't mean that Carroll is condoning drug use or that Alice in Wonderland is about drugs. Madness is a theme which runs throughout the book and Alice encounters numerous characters who are all "mad" for whatever reason. It is frequently suggested that the Hatter is mad as a result of mercury poisonong and it is generally believed that hares are mad in March because of excessive friskiness during the mating season - however, nobody ever suggests that Alice in Wonderland is about mercury poisoning (or friskiness for that matter.) The Caterpillar is just one of the mad people that Alice meets on her journey and he is not a pleasant character. There is no suggestion that he is someone we would wish to emulate. Therefore, if his madness is caused by the consumption of drugs, we can assume that this is not something Carroll is attempting to promote (any more than he is attempting to promote mercury poisoning.)
It is generally believed by critics and people who have studied Lewis Carroll, that Alice in Wonderland is NOT about drugs. Those who seek to enjoy or promote recrational drug use frequently claim that it is.
To add on to MisoSoup's answer, Alice in Wonderland is thought to actually be about math. The author was a mathematician, and there were some kinds of new math theories. He didn't like them, so he wrote a book where he applied the the theories. You'll notice that Alice really did not like it.
Why is the March Hare called the March Hare?
The March Hare is named after the saying 'as mad as a March hare'.
The phrase is thought to originate from a time when it was believed that hares acted in a crazed fashion owing to excessive friskiness brought on by the mating season.
