Alice In Wonderland is such a creatvie story with intresting turns and twists so far. In Wonderland the animals and people ask a lot of questions and say random stuff. As each chapter progresses Alice starts to talk like them. Occasionally she will get insits of randomly placed logical thoughts that contradict everything happening in Wonderland.
In Chapter 5, Alice meets significant characters. One such character was the Caterpillar who was very insightful. The Caterpillar made Alice, and us the readers following Alice's adventure, question her thoughts. Alice gets frustrated with the Caterpillar because it is not answering her questions with answers, but ends up going back to the Caterpillar out of curiousity. Could the Caterpillar represent deep thinking and growing up, which seem to be occurances so far throughout the book, because it makes Alice question herself and shows that the Caterpilliar was not afraid of growing up into a butterfly?
In Chapter 6, other intresting characters are met. Alice first talks to the doorman who, like the Caterpillar, does not answer her question directly. The doorman makes Alice frustrated because he is asking her questions and calls him idiotic. Alice always seems to get angry when she is not in control. She meets the Duchess who is a brutal mother. Alice takes the baby which somehow turns into a pig, oddly enough she acts like it is a normal thing to happen. She then talks to the Cheshire Cat who tells her which way is what and foreshadows that they will meet again at the queens game. The Cheshire Cat tells Alice that everybody is mad, including herself, which seems significant somehow.
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ReplyDeleteWhile reading Alice in Wonderland, there are many intresting characters that she meets which symbolize something much deeper. One such character was the Caterpillar that she met in chapter 5. The Caterpillar was insightful and made Alice, and us the readers following Alice's adventure, question herself at a higher level then she was used to. I think the Caterpillar represents deeper thinking and growing up because it makes Alice question herself and shows that the Caterpilliar was not afraid of growing up into a butterfly.
Another character who symbolizes something more meanigful was the Cheshire Cat Alice met in Chapter 6. The Cheshire Cat represents our options in life because it presents Alice with the choice of either going to the Mad Hatter's tea party of the March Hare's house.
Doing the post again was to your benefit Jana. Although you had some insightful thoughts, the first one was mostly a summary. Looking at the second one, you did nice analysis of how the caterpillar represents growing up. When you say that the Cheshire Cat represents our options in life, that is a really good look at symbolism. I didn't even think of it that way. So if you notice, the Cheshire Cat plays two roles so far. It has symbolism to options in life and it foreshadows something out of the ordinary that might happen with Alice. Reading on......we might find more roles for the Cat.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy reading..... :)