Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Group at eNotes

how is Lewis Carroll's christian life reflected in his works. through...

Tue, 13 May 2008 09:55:12 PST

how is Lewis Carroll's christian life reflected in his works. through symbols and themes

Enotes has a great summary (broken down into 3 chapters at a time) for...

Fri, 9 May 2008 17:56:57 PST

Enotes has a great summary (broken down into 3 chapters at a time) for you to refer to to help you with this question: http://www.enotes.com/alices-adventures/chapters-1-3-down-rabbit-hole. You will also find information about the Victorian Era and its influence on this novel here: http://www.enotes.com/alices-adventures/historical-context.

Would you please give me a short summary of "Alice's Adventures in...

Fri, 9 May 2008 15:22:08 PST

How is the Victorian Era represented in this novel?

In reply to #1: Although there are certainly instances of this, I...

Mon, 5 May 2008 20:00:22 PST

In reply to #1: Although there are certainly instances of this, I believe that authors truly go with what their instincts reveal or what they've imagined. Poe is a prime example here. Poe had many horrible characters in his fiction and they were all male (I can't think of one female actually).

This is a good question for the discussion board.If the premise is true...

Mon, 5 May 2008 06:21:06 PST

This is a good question for the discussion board.If the premise is true that female writers create male monsters and male writers create female monsters, then the writer of Beowulf must have been a hermaphrodite, because that story has monsters of both sexes. And poor old Homer must have been more than just blind because he had the female Medusa and the male Polyphemus; and wasn't Cerberus male? You might use more modern writers as examples of...

Evil Characters

Mon, 5 May 2008 04:16:45 PST

Do you agree that when authors create evil characters in their books, they project fears of the opposite sex into their characters?Monsters with male attributes are created by female authors and monsters with female attributes are created by male authors.

The early Victorian era marked the emergence of a large middle-class...

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:02:30 PST

The early Victorian era marked the emergence of a large middle-class society for the first time in the history of the Western world. With this middle-class population came a spread of - "family values": polite society avoided mentioning sex, sexual passions, bodily functions, and in extreme cases, body parts. By the 1860s, the result, for most people, was a kind of stiff and gloomy prudery marked by a feeling that freedom and...

In the novel when Alice falls down the rabbit hole, the entire Victorian...

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 04:20:07 PST

In the novel when Alice falls down the rabbit hole, the entire Victorian world is set upside down. The ordered Victorian world which young Alice inhabits is made systematically disordered by her journey down the rabbit hole and into Wonderland. The Victorian world was for example particularity interested in assigning scientific laws to the world. So in the novel, Carroll plays with these ideas. We see that the laws of nature as defined...

How does the novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland represent the era?

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:13:25 PST

you know...

this novel is from the 19th ( the Victorian era )

and how the author Lewis Carroll represent also the era in this novel?

Help Connecting Alice to Lewis's Era

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:51:52 PST

What the connection between the era , the author and the this novelI read this nice novel and found 2 connections , but I need more. It is from the victorian era . It is writen by Lewis Carroll . TANNX

Lewis Carroll himself identified his purpose as simply to entertain a...

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 10:05:39 PST

Lewis Carroll himself identified his purpose as simply to entertain a young girl, Alice Liddell who was the daughter of the Dean of Christ Church College. He told this story to Alice and her two sisters during an outing, and for years later, Alice begged him to write it down. Others read it, and encouraged him to publish the fairy tale.Since that time, critics have analyzed and re-analyzed Carroll's fantastical creatures, plot, and...

What do you think was author Lewis Carroll's purpose in writing Alice's...

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:44:18 PST

What do you think was author Lewis Carroll's purpose in writing Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?

Alice's growth during the trial reflects her growing awareness that...

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 21:29:33 PST

Alice's growth during the trial reflects her growing awareness that Wonderland is an illusion. She reaches full height when she tells the Queen that her antagonists are "nothing but a pack of cards!" She grows to full size when she realizes she has control over her illusion. Throughout the book, Alice tried to make sense of the situations she's encountered, but at the end, she realizes this can't be done since everything is...

What does the book's concluding paragraph suggest about allowing the...

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:09:13 PST

What does the book's concluding paragraph suggest about allowing the "dream of Wonderland" to become part of one's imagination?

There are several reasons why Carroll might frame his story this way....

Wed, 9 May 2007 20:52:35 PST

There are several reasons why Carroll might frame his story this way. One is formal: it fits with many of the themes in the story, such as mistaking appearance for reality, words for physical reality, and so on. This is one more occasion of mirroring/doubling in the work. Another major reason is psychological. Any apparent social critiques in the work can be dismissed as wisps of a dream. It is a way to say difficult or painful things and...

In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,why would Carroll frame the story as...

Wed, 9 May 2007 18:07:46 PST

Think about what adults do and say that seem to be “nonsense” to children even though adults often see what children do as “nonsense.”