Alice in wonderland

ALICE IN WONDERLAND

By Aurora Lenzi and Francesca Zanatta

THE AUTHOR and THE BOOK

Lewis Carroll, pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, was born on January 27, 1832, in Daresbury, Cheshire, England and he died on January 14, 1898, in Guildford, Surrey. He was an english logician, mathematician, photographer, and novelist, especially remembered for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass (1871). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland had an enormous succes. It's a novella, set in the Victorian Age, that belongs to the genre of nonsense literature and children's fiction.Thanks to tons of methaphors, symbolism and a complicated word games, Carroll's book can be read also by an older pubblic.

THEMES

Even though it is a children's book , it contains intresting and profound themes 1. TIME AND SPACE these are two concepts that human beings can't live without and without which nothing makes sense to us. In this book they lose all their importance in the underground world, where Alice's adventure takes place. 2. GROWTH Alice's adventures are metaphors for the journey from childhood to adulthood. In fact throughout the entire book Alice has to face tons of new experiences, that allows her to learn how to manage new situations. 3. PERSONAL IDENTITY Alice during her experience in the undeground world seemS to lose her identity. This allows her to begin to question it

GREEK PHILOSOPHY IN ALICE IN WONDERLAND

The main element of nonsense in the book is the existence of NON-BEING. This is one of the oldest philosophical controversies and it's clear that Carrol was infuenced by his Greek philosophy studies. Carrol seems to follow the ideas of Heraclitus more than Parmenides's ones. In fact Parmenides belived that "non-being" and "being " couldn't live in the same space, time and world, however Heraclitus was convinced that they could co-exist peacefully. Therefore in Carroll's book seems that "nothingness" is a special essence, strengthened by the concept of "non-material". In fact the author shares the concept of non-material with the famous philosopher Plato.

Parmenides

Plato

The Mad Hatter

REINTERPRETATIONS OF THE BOOK

Carroll's book has been taken as a starting point in lots of artistic fields

ILLUSTRATIONS MUSIC

COMICS

CINEMA

COMPARISION BETWEEN INTERPRETATIONS OF THE TEA PARTY SCENE

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ALICE IN WONDERLAND Walt Disney

ALICE IN WONDERLAND Nick Willing

ALICE IN WONDERLAND Tim Burton

QUOTES

“Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.”

“Little Alice felldownthe hOle,bumped her headand bruised her soul”

“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

“have i gone mad?im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are.”

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