Alice in Wonderland
The inventive world of Wonderland and Alice's journey in to her own imagination is more then merely a children's story. Looking deep at the symbols and structure of the story one can see that it becomes more complex and abstract as Alice gets deeper and deeper in her journey in Wonderland. Lewis Carol wrote the book in 1876 and Disney produced its own animated version of Alice in Wonderland no more then twenty years ago. The Disney production aimed at a younger audience, shows Wonderland as a very colourful and vibrant place, full of flowers, trees and a majestic garden of wonder and glory. Although Disney is successful at doing that, it fails in showing the hidden aspects of the story, the aspects of the novel that need to be dug into to comprehend. This is most likely because it was aimed a younger audience. Alice encounters many strange characters in Wonderland, most of which are personified characters such as the White Rabbit, or the Caterpillar, and some who are deranged humans as is the case with the Mad Hatter. The film was able to capture the physical characteristics of most characters like the White Rabbit and Caterpillar, but it didn't well describe the Mad Hatter like he was supposed to be po
"Oh, things that happened the week after next." The Queen replied. (Carol, p.155) That part, which was not in the film, showed how the Mad Hatter is able to turn almost any situation into a riddle. But the novel also gave him an intellectual dimension, which wasn't in the movie. The movie just doesn't seem to give the Mad Hatter as big of a role as one would hope for after reading the book. We only see the Mad Hatter as a frenzy lunatic who can't stop talking in the movie, but the book shows him on several occasions as calm and relaxed talking to Alice about interesting concepts. That part of the book, where Alice steps through the looking glass and into the world of the reversed was entirely left out and because of that the movie suffers. The films weakest point comes when analyzing carefully the novel and looking for hidden messages or symbols which aren't meant to catch the readers attention without looking deep into the story. Examples of this are the looking glass which is basically a mirror that Alice steps into to enter Wonderland. The mirror symbolized the reverse reality, the reality that exists in her own mind and how it is the complete opposite of the real world, just like a mirror is the opposite of the real world. The Red Queen explains to Alice at one point: "What sort of things to do you remember best?" asked Alice.
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Approximate Word count = 1053
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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