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  1. A Summary and Analysis of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: summary. The novel begins with a young girl named Alice, who is bored with a book she is reading outside, following a smartly-dressed rabbit down a rabbit hole. She falls a long way until she finds herself in a room full of locked doors. However, she finds a key, but it's for a door that's too small for her.

  2. "Alice's Adventure in Wonderland": Literary Analysis

    Alice's Adventure in Wonderland is a novel by Lewis Carrol (Charles Dodgson) first published in 1865 in the UK. Later the book was translated into 97 languages and never came out of print. Critics classify the novel as literary nonsense, although it can also be classified as a fantasy genre. This paper aims to analyze the story in terms of ...

  3. An Analysis of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

    Many people have seen Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as a prime example of the limit-breaking book from the old tradition illuminating the new one. They also consider it being a tale of the "variations on the debate of gender" and that it's "continually astonishing us with its modernity". From the looks of it, the story about ...

  4. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Study Guide

    Key Facts about Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Full Title: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (but often known by the shortened Alice in Wonderland ) When Written: 1862-63. Where Written: Oxford, England. When Published: 26th November 1865. Literary Period: Victorian England, soon to become the "Golden Age" of Children's Literature.

  5. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Literature Analysis Essay

    Lewis' Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is one of the most unexpected unpredictable and captivating stories, where the simplicity of ideas and nonsense are closely interlaced by a variety of puzzles that have to be collected by the main character, Alice. In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis introduces a collection of puzzles that ...

  6. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Analysis

    Charles Frey and John Griffith, "Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," in their The Literary Heritage of Childhood: An Appraisal of Children's Classics in the Western Tradition ...

  7. Analysis

    There are several levels of analysis from which you can look at the 'Alice' books, when trying to determine what's behind them: 1. Purposeful parodies and references. Lewis Carroll actively incorporated and parodied aspects of his environment and the Victorian culture in his books. An example is the parodying of the poems that children ...

  8. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

    Victorians praised Lewis Carroll's word-play and brilliant use of language. Critics after his death found psychological clues to Carroll's own subconscious in the book's curious dream-structure ...

  9. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Critical Essays

    Analysis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland presents a world in which everything, including Alice's own body size, is in a state of flux. She is treated rudely, bullied, asked questions that ...

  10. Themes in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland provides an inexhaustible mine of literary, philosophical, and scientific themes. Here are some general themes which the reader may find interesting and of some use in studying the work. Alice's initial reaction after falling down the rabbit-hole is one of extreme loneliness.

  11. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

    Cathy Lowne Pat Bauer. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, widely beloved British children's book by Lewis Carroll, published in 1865 and illustrated by John Tenniel. It is one of the best-known and most popular works of English-language fiction, about Alice, a young girl who dreams that she follows a white rabbit down a rabbit hole.

  12. "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland" Analysis: [Essay ...

    Introduction. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland or simply Alice in Wonderland is considered a classical novel for children but it is not limited to merely that. Lewis Carroll, the author of the literature, portrayed the main protagonist Alice as a young naïve girl full of imagination. She can be thoughtless sometimes but she never loses her ...

  13. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Literary Devices

    See key examples and analysis of the literary devices Lewis Carroll uses in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, along with the quotes, themes, symbols, and characters related to each device. Sort by: Devices A-Z. Chapter. Filter: All Literary Devices. Allegory 1 key example. Anthropomorphism 1 key example. Foil 1 key example.

  14. PDF Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Literary Nonsense

    Adventures in Wonderland (1865), commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland (Douglas-Fairhurst 3), and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871). Both books are considered as "part of the background of every educated Englishman and American" (Phillips ixx). Alice in Wonderland has been one of the "world's most frequently

  15. Alice in Wonderland Literary Analysis Essay

    1690 Words. 7 Pages. Open Document. Alice In Wonderland Literary Analysis Many themes are explored when reading Lewis Carrol's, Alice in Wonderland. Themes of childhood innocence, child abuse, dream, and others. Reading the story, it was quite clear to see one particular theme portrayed through out the book: child to adult progression.

  16. A Mad Tea Party of Symbolism: "Alice in Wonderland" Analysis

    This analysis essay explores the themes of nonsense, adventure, and the power of imagination in Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll's classic children's book. With a setting that defies logic and a plot filled with unique and fascinating characters, the story captivates readers of all ages. From the rabbit hole to the garden of the Queen of ...

  17. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Essays and Criticism

    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass have always led double lives as adult fantasy literature as well as children's classics—Katherine Anne Porter once observed that ...

  18. The hidden meanings in 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'

    'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' is one of the most celebrated novels in literary history. Written by Lewis Carroll and published in 1865, the story is of a young girl named Alice who falls ...