Essays on Adventures In Wonderland

Fantasy is fiction that is often set in an imaginary universe. Characters exhibit behavior that is out of the ordinary as seen in A Midsummer night’s Dream by William Shakespeare and also Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. The two exhibits a child and young lovers get into a fairy tale kind- of life. They transition into a mundane world, they take part in the activities of the magical world that are away from reality and most often the reader gets immersed in it too. The constructed world moves from the conscious and subconscious and vice ...

There is a common discussion amongst those interested in literature about the metaphors and allusions in the works of Lewis Carroll. Lewis Carroll first invented the Alice character in the work Alice in Wonderland, published in 1865. Scholars studying Carroll’s stories, including Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass have debated whether or not he was able to weave together abstract notions into a cogent story, or if he simply delivered fractured fairy tales for a 20th Century audience. The truth is that Carroll worked purely within the realm of thte imagination, and although he did occasionally ...

The story “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland” is housed together with the story “Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There” in one book volume. In this case, I shall consider the first story only.

The story “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland” was originally published in mid 1860s. It is the story of a young Alice after her dream when she fell asleep. After waking up, Alice relates the story to her sister. The story is about the series of events which take place in Alice’s dream when she fell asleep in the course of her lessons. In the dream, the ...