Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Alice in Wonderland : CHP. 5 &6
As I am reading Alice in Wonderland, I noticed the book is full of imagination, has a crazy plot and absurd thoughts and characters. Not to mention the million personifications the author uses in the story, like the talking animals. Alice seems to fit right in the world she fell into, but seems to forget about herself even more and more. There is a lot of foreshadowing and repetitive scenes, like when she drinks the potions and eats the cake. Alice is very childish but is courageous as she takes on the risks and adventures throughout the story. Everything seems to come by really fast and the scene changes very fast with even more crazy thought out characters. The animals in the story are close to human like figures and people who Alice finds herself very comfortable and "natural" to talk to. She mentions that its natural to her often in the story. She talks to the animals which surprises me greatly, like she knew them for awhile. I always knew the story about Alice in Wonderland but now that I have been paying more close attention to the text, i'm beginning to think very different from how I thought it was before. The author writes very crazy in my perspective and a lot of things are symbolized to mean something. I may not know specifically what each symbol may mean, but I have a feeling it may foreshadow in the book as we continue to read. Overall this book is quite interesting and unpredictable.
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Throughout the story, Alice goes through a variety of absurd physical changes.The discomfort she feels at never being the right size questions her true identity.I feel that her changing physically, like in size relates to puberty, how we all undergo changes as we grow older. She struggles trying to get back to her original size, that the emotions of anger, sadness, and frustration fills her. Her size seems to impact how she feels throughout the story like in beginning when she keeps becoming too big or too small to go through the door that holds the beautiful garden or later on when she loses control over specific body parts and her neck becomes longer then her own actual size. These constant changes represent the way a child may feel as her body grows and changes during puberty.
ReplyDeleteNot only does her size affect her, but these constant changes, questions her true identity. As she undergoes these distortions she becomes more and more uncomfortable. She forgets her name and her intelligence on memory slip her mind, for example the poems she once remembered that don't seem to make sense to her anymore. Alice just goes completely mad like the other creatures in the story, she is in a wonderland where things don't make sense. She lost and cannot understand why things that are happening are occurring.