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As we read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and The Island of Dr. Moreau, we enter into two unique worlds of imagination. Both Lewis Carroll and H.G. Wells describe lands of intrigue and mystery. We follow Alice and Pren*censored* into two different worlds where animals speak, evolution is tested, and reality is bent until it nearly breaks. It is the masterminds of Lewis Carroll and H.G. Wells that take these worlds of fantasy and make them realistic. How do these two great authors make the unbelievable believable? Both Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and The Island of Dr. Moreau float in between a dream world and reality, which makes the real seem unbelievable and the unbelievable seem real. In H.G. Wells's The Island of Dr. Moreau, we see right from the beginning that imagination and reality are blended together to create an air of confusion. In the introduction we are told that Pren*censored* disappeared for eleven months. When he was found, he told a story that no one would believe. "He gave such a strange account of himself that he was supposed demented (pg. 1)." So right from the beginning we do not know what to believe. Later in the story, Pren*censored* is picked up by the Ipecacuanha. On this ship there a
This is the same technique that Lewis Carroll uses in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The story begins with Alice getting tired, which implies that she is falling asleep and going to enter the fantastic world of dreams. Immediately, she sees a white rabbit in a waistcoat. This puts the reader directly into the world of fantasy and imagination. It is Carroll's use of explanations that makes this unbelievable world seem real. No matter how strange something appears it has a meaning and a reason. When the Mock Turtle is telling his story of school, he says, "'the master was an old Turtle-we used to call him Tortoise--.' 'Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn't one?' asked Alice. 'We called him Tortoise because he taught us,' said the Mock Turtle angrily. 'Really you are very dull.' (pg. 91)." It is this type of explanation that helps the reader to believe the story. Alice is referred to as dull for not understanding, so the reader accepts the explanation in order not to be dull. It is later in the story, where reality really becomes deformed. First, Pren*censored* is locked out of the inner rooms of the enclosure, because of their "little secrets." Second, Pren*censored* walks out into the woods to get away from the puma's crying. It is hear that he gets a good look at one of the deformities for the first time. "Then I saw it
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Approximate Word count = 920
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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