Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Book

Queens always begin the game on their own colors: the white queen on a white square and the black queen on a black square. We all remember: white on right; queen on colour. Queens are indeed meant to be on their own colors but that begs the question: Why are they meant to be on their own color? They could face each other if they were on their opposite colors too. The reason they face each other is probably more because the kings face each other just as they would on a real battlefield. In ancient forms of chess there was no queen. There was an "advisor to the king" sitting on the spot the queen now sits. In later years, the queen was introduced and simply replaced the "advisor". Even in that ancient form of chess, the kings faced off against one another. Although the historical response is interesting, the real reason is because that's what the official rules of chess say. Any two people can agree to play by different rules, of course, but they would not be playing the official game of chess. If you really want to play by a different rule, try playing by the old rule that allowed the king to move any number of spaces in any direction, just like the queen.

The Mad Hatter doesn't die in either of the original Alice books or in the 1951 Disney movie.

However, in the Batman comic series, the super-villain known as the Mad Hatter appears to die when he is hit by a train. But this turns out to be a hoax when it is revealed that he has faked his death.

The phrase "Off with her head" is famously associated with the Queen of Hearts in Lewis Carroll's book "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". The character is known for her short temper and tendency to order executions at the drop of a hat.

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Lewis Carroll is addressing the issue of tyranny in showing the queen of hearts.

In the Mock Turtle's story in Alice in Wonderland, "Laughing and Grief" refer to two schools of thought on education. Laughing is focused on joyful learning and creativity, while Grief is about disciplined study and seriousness. The Mock Turtle uses these terms to humorously describe his own unconventional education.

In Lewis Carroll's book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the Caterpillar tells Alice to repeat the poem You Are Old, Father William, which she does. It begins, "'You are old, Father William,' the young man said."

So, the young man, Alice and the Caterpillar all say 'You are old father' in Alice in Wonderland.

`Repeat, "YOU ARE OLD, FATHER WILLIAM,"' said the Caterpillar.

Alice folded her hands, and began:--

`You are old, Father William,' the young man said, `And your hair has become very white; And yet you incessantly stand on your head-- Do you think, at your age, it is right?'

In the 1951 Disney version, Tweedledum and Tweedledee begin to repeat the poem, but Alice has heard enough poetry from them, so she leaves.

None of the characters in Alice in Wonderland stuttered, but it is said that Lewis Carroll, who wrote the book, had a stutter.

Tom Northcott

It was Samuel Goldwyn, the U.S. movie producer.

Yes

1. Alice begins the story lazing by a riverbank when she sees a white rabbit run past.
2. Because the rabbit takes a watch out of its waistcoat pocket, Alice is consumed with curiosity and follows it into its rabbit hole which she promptly falls down.
3. "Curiouser and curiouser" is a well known phrase which Alice utters when she discovers that she is growing, after having drunk from a bottle marked 'drink me'.
4. Drowning in her own tears becomes a very real risk when the shrunken Alice falls into a pool which she wept earlier.
5. Everybody wins the caucus race which the soggy animals run in order to get dry and Alice is called upon to provide prizes.
6. Fury is the name of the animal in the poem that the mouse recites to explain why it doesn't like cats and dogs.
7. Growing to an enormous size, Alice soon finds herself trapped in the White Rabbit's house.
8. Having escaped from the rabbit's house, Alice attempts to play with a puppy, but she is so tiny at this point that she equates it to, "having a game of play with a cart-horse."
9. In Chapter V, Alice meets the Caterpillar and recites the poem 'You Are Old Father William'.
10. Just as the Caterpillar leaves, he tells Alice that one side of the mushroom will make her grow taller and the other side will make her grow shorter, thus enabling Alice to gain control of her changes in size.
11. Kitchens should not be full of pepper, but the kitchen of the Duchess is so full of it that everyone is very hot tempered and prone to sneezing.
12. Leaving the Duchess' house, Alice meets the Cheshire Cat, who tells her that she is mad.
13. Madness is a theme which runs throughout the book, exemplified by the Cheshire Cat's famous comment, "we're all mad here."
14. Not wishing to "go among mad people," Alice choses to visit the March Hare, reasoning that, "as this is May, it won't be raving mad."
15. On her arrival at the mad tea party, the Hatter, the Hare and the Dormouse all shout at Alice that there is, "no room," despite the fact that the table is set with many places.
16. Pleased that "they've begun asking riddles," Alice tries to guess the answer to the Hatter's famous question, "why is a raven like a writing desk."
17. Queen Victoria is rumoured to be the inspiration for Tenniel's illustration of the Queen of Hearts.
18. Roses have to be painted red by the gardeners because they planted white ones by accident and they fear the wrath of the Queen of Hearts.
19. Shouts of "off with his head," are heard constantly, as Alice tries to wrangle with her flamingo croquet mallet.
20. Tenniel provided the illustrations for the first published version of the book.
21. Umbrella birds and the talking doorknob only appear in Disney's version and are not in the original book.
22. Very few people realise that the Hatter is not called 'the Mad Hatter' in the book, he is just called 'the Hatter'.
23. When Alice jumps up during the trial, she knocks all the jurymen out of their box, causing her to try to put them all back as quickly as possible as she remembers doing something similar with her goldfish and she's worried they might die if she doesn't.
24. Xanadu is another imaginary place in fiction, but Wonderland is far better known.
25. "You're nothing but a pack of cards!" is the phrase Alice cries at the climax of the book.
26. Zealous Alice fans tend to be rather scathing about the various film adaptations and prefer the original books.

You might be confusing two different sayings; 'grinning like a Cheshire cat' and 'the cat who got the cream'. The cats in both these sayings sound pretty happy, but they are not connected. In Alice in Wonderland, the Cheshire Cat doesn't have any cream.

It's called The Cheshire Cat - it doesn't have a real name.

The Duchess's morals in "Alice in Wonderland" are humorous because she often says contradictory or nonsensical things, such as advocating for beheading as a form of punishment while also espousing kindness and care for animals. This inconsistency and absurdity adds to the whimsical and satirical nature of the story.

The character Mad Hatter originated in Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." The character is known for his eccentric behavior and distinctive appearance, including a large hat with a price tag on it. The inspiration for the character's name and characteristics is thought to come from the phrase "mad as a hatter," which was a reference to the neurological symptoms exhibited by hat makers due to mercury exposure in the 18th and 19th centuries.

In the both the original poem, and in Tim Burton's 2010 movie, the Jabberwock dies when the vorpal sword cuts its head off (but in the 2010 movie the Jabberwock is referred to as 'the Jabberwocky'.)

Personally, I think that the central theme in the play is of the futility of the first world war and the comradship the men experience with one another to get through the war.

I think there are many other themes including sacrifice- the sacrifice of stanhope through his choice of drinking and the sacrifice of raleigh through his death.

There's the idea of status and the crossing of the different ranks the coldness of the colonel.

Grief- the loss of osborne.

Heroism- Osborne is a quiet, underlying hero who has respect from the men and he is selfless.

The harsh reality and pointlessness of war and how each man copes with the pressure differently (stanhope by alcohol)

Escapism- each character deals with war differently and we know that Osborne reads books such as Alice in wonderland which is a child's book, Stanhope drinks Alcohol to forget about the present situation, Trotter eats food to cope and to maybe carry on as normal and Hibbert tries to literally escape.

But i agree that the one of the main themes is the comradeship and brotherhood we see, Osborne and Stanhope's relationship (osborne- "I love that fellow. I'd go to hell with him") Raleigh and Osborne, and Stanhope and hibbert when hibbert is in need, stanhope shares his weakness and helps him through.

In the book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice encounters the Cheshire Cat after leaving the Duchess' house. She asks it which way she ought to go, and it tells her that in one direction there is a hatter and that in the other is a March Hare, and that both are mad. Alice doesn't want to be with mad people, so she decides to visit the March Hare, on the grounds that she's seen hatters before, and to meet a hare might be more interesting, and that as it's May, it might not be raving mad.

She follows the cat's directions, and soon arrives at the hare's house, where the tea party is laid out in the front garden.

The tone of the opening to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland can be described as calm and dreamy. Alice is portrayed as bored and curious as she daydreams by the riverbank while her sister reads.