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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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Perhaps the Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland grins because it's amused by the foolishness of people.
The origins of the phrase 'grinning like a Cheshire cat' are unknown, but there are several theories. According to Martin Gardner, in his Annotated Alice, the two leading theories are:
- A sign painter in Cheshire (the county, by the way, where Carroll was born) painted grinning lions on the sign boards of inns in the area.
- Cheshire cheeses were at one time molded in the shape of a grinning cat.
Who does Alice follow into Wonderland?
No. In the novel she is just a child, while he is an adult. The tea party ends with her storming off angrily due to his comments and him not even noticing. Clearly not love.
Though the newest movie does seem to hint at this, Johnny Depp, who of course played the Hatter, said that he viewed their relationsip as more of a brother/sister one.
Of course fans can interpret relationships however they like, but there seems to be no canonical evidence that they are in love.
In the newest movie, I believe he is. He gives himself up to the Red Queen so that she can be free, he gives her loving looks, and wants her to stay in Underland forever. In the tea party scene of the newest movie, he sits there and it looks all worn and dull in the scene. Its as if he has been sitting there , forever, waiting for her to return and bring back the happiness that he once had.
What are the Mathematical concepts in Alice in Wonderland?
Well the author was a mathematician. He loved working with math. For example... in the book here is something... mathy.
For a more focused example, take the chapter "Advice from a caterpillar." Alice has fallen down the rabbit hole and eaten a cake that has shrunk her to a height of just 3 inches. The Caterpillar enters, smoking a hookah pipe, and shows Alice a mushroom that can restore her to her proper size. But one side of the mushroom stretches her neck, while another shrinks her torso, so she must eat exactly the right balance to regain her proper size and proportions. Bayley believes this expresses Dodgson's view of the absurdity of symbolic algebra.
The first clue, she says, may be the pipe. The word "hookah" is of Arabic origin, like "algebra". More to the point, the original Arabic term for algebra, widely known and used in the mathematical community in Dodgson's time, was al jebr e al mokabala or "restoration and reduction" - which exactly describes Alice's experience. Restoration was what brought Alice to the mushroom: she was looking for something to eat or drink to "grow to my right size again," and reduction was what actually happened when she ate some: she shrank so rapidly that her chin hit her foot.
Why did Alice in Wonderland eat the mushroom pieces?
Alice eats the mushroom pieces because she wants to gain control of her height and the Caterpillar has advised her that eating the mushroom will enable her to do so.
`What size do you want to be?' it asked.
`Oh, I'm not particular as to size,' Alice hastily replied; `only one doesn't like changing so often, you know.'
`One side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter.'
`One side of WHAT? The other side of WHAT?' thought Alice to herself.
`Of the mushroom,' said the Caterpillar, just as if she had asked it aloud; and in another moment it was out of sight.
What is the publication date of Alice in Wonderland?
Alice - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - was created in 1865.
Portmanteau' is an old-fashioned word for a suitcase or trunk that opens in two parts. Its origins are from the French word meaning to carry.
How many Alice in Wonderland movies are there?
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What kind of place is wonderland in alice in the wonderland?
The original book is called Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. This is sometimes shortened to Alice in Wonderland.
The REAL ORIGINAL NAME IS CALLED Alice's Adventure Underground.
What is the first line in Alice in Wonderland?
The first line in Lewis Carroll's book, Alice's Adventures in wonderland is, "Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, `and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice `without pictures or conversation?'"
Was the Wizard of Oz made before Alice in Wonderland?
The book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland came first. It was originally published in 1865. The Wonderful Wizard of Ozwas published thirty-five years later in 1900.
However, the famous movie, The Wizard of Oz predates Disney's animated Alice in Wonderland. The Wizard of Oz was released in 1939 and Alice in Wonderland was released in 1951.
In the 1951 Disney animation, the Cheshire Cat sings the first stanza of the poem Jabberwocky, which originally appeared in the book Through the Looking Glass:
Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe.
All mimsy were the borogoves
And the mome raths outgrabe
Who is Anne Hathaway in Alice in Wonderland?
No, Anne Hathaway plays the 'White Queen'. Alice is played by Mia Wasikowska.
it depends on which you mean. in animation he looks like this. he has gray hair, a purple hat and purple suit. in the actual life movie he has red hair, a purple hat and a purple suit also and then he looks mad. he used to look horrible his hair was CRAZY!
What is the name of Alice's pet cat in 'Alice in Wonderland'?
There are two cats in Alice in Wonderland.
Alice's pet cat is called Dinah, she stays in the real world and doesn't go to Wonderland with Alice. Alice frequently talks about her which frightens the animals she meets there.
The other cat is the Cheshire Cat, who Alice meets in Wonderland. It is famous for appearing and disappearing, leaving just its enormous grin. It isn't Alice's, it belongs to the Duchess and doesn't have a name, it is simply known as the Cheshire Cat.
To see Tenniel's and Disney's pictures of Dinah and the Cheshire Cat, follow the Related Links below.
Who was evil in Alice in Wonderland?
There are no 'bad characters' as such in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - no villains, no bad guys - but the Duchess and the Queen of Hearts are the most unpleasant characters who Alice encounters.
Lewis Carroll loved word-play and puns, and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has many examples. In particular, Chapter 9, The Mock Turtle's Story, has numerous examples when the Mock Turtle is describing his education:
'When we were little...we went to school in the sea. The master was an old Turtle - we used to call him Tortoise -'
'Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn't one?' Alice asked.
'We called him Tortoise because he taught us,'
He goes on to name the subjects he studied: 'Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with...and the the different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.'
He continues: 'Mystery, ancient and modern, with Seaography: then Drawling - the Drawling master was an old conger-eel, that used to come in once a week: he taught us Drawling, Stretching and Fainting in Coils.'
The Gryphon contributes: ...'I went to the Classical master, though. He was an old crab, he was.' 'I never went to him,' said the Mock Turtle with a sigh. 'He taught Laughing and Grief, they used to say.'
Alice asks a question:
'And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' asked Alice, in a hurry to change the subject.
'Ten hours the first day,' said the Mock Turtle: 'nine the next, and so on.'
'What a curious plan!' exclaimed Alice.
'That's the reason they're called lessons,' the Gryphon remarked: 'because they lessen from day to day.'
What comes first Tweedledee or Tweedledum?
In Lewis Carroll's book, Through the Looking Glass, the brothers are referred to as 'Tweedledum and Tweedledee', so Tweedledum comes first.
But (contrariwise) in Disney's 1951 animated film, they are called 'Tweedledee and Tweedledum', so Tweedledee comes first.
Who turns into a sheep in Through the Looking Glass?
The White Queen
`Then I hope your finger is better now?' Alice said very politely, as she crossed the little brook after the Queen.
`Oh, much better!' cried the Queen, her voice rising to a squeak as she went on. `Much be-etter! Be-etter! Be-e-e-etter!
Be-e-ehh!' The last word ended in a long bleat, so like a sheep that Alice quite started.
She looked at the Queen, who seemed to have suddenly wrapped herself up in wool. Alice rubbed her eyes, and looked again. She couldn't make out what had happened at all. Was she in a shop? And was that really - was it really a sheep that was sitting on the other side of the counter? Rub as she could, she could make nothing more of it: she was in a little dark shop, leaning with her elbows on the counter, and opposite to her was a old Sheep, sitting in an arm-chair knitting, and every now and then leaving off to look at her through a great pair of spectacles.
Is there such thing as a Hatter?
Yes there is such a thing as a hatter. A hatter is a person who makes and sells hats. They are also known as milliners, who usually make women's hats, or haberdashers, who make hats for men. Former US president Harry Truman used to work as a haberdasher.
Stephen Jones is a very famous hatter, as is Phillip Treacy, who has designed and made hats for Queen Elizabeth.
The reason that a hatter might become crazy (hence the term "mad hatter") was because of the chemicals used in the hat-making. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, mercury was commonly used when working with felt, but its toxic effects caused symptoms similar to 'madness'.
Is the original book of Alice in Wonderland dirty?
Assuming that by 'dirty' you mean having adult themes and sexual content, then no, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland isn't dirty at all. The book was written for and is suitable for children and contains nothing risque.
(If, on the other hand, you mean does the original book have dirt on it, then this is quite possible, as first editions of the book are one hundred and forty-five years old, and may have suffered a little weathering in that time.)
Alice was captured by The Red Queen's soldiers in Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland."
What did Alice not drink or eat to change her size?
Alice shrinks while cooling herself with the White Rabbit's fan.
As she said this she looked down at her hands, and was surprised to see that she had put on one of the Rabbit's little white kid gloves while she was talking . `How CAN I have done that?' she thought. `I must be growing small again.' She got up and went to the table to measure herself by it, and found that, as nearly as she could guess, she was now about two feet high, and was going on shrinking rapidly: she soon found out that the cause of this was the fan she was holding, and she dropped it hastily, just in time to avoid shrinking away altogether.
What does Alice in Wonderland's pet cat look like?
In the books, Lewis Carroll does not describe Alice's pet cat, Dinah. However, Alice Liddell, for whom the books were written, had a cat called Dinah which was a tabby. Tabbies have stripes, spots or swirls, but can come in any cat colour. Tenniel depicted Dinah in Through the Looking Glass (see Related Link below - Dinah is the largest cat, with her paw on the white kitten's head)
In the 1951 Disney version Dinah is a reddish brown colour with a beige bib and beige paws. (see Related Link below)
