Topics discussed in Alicia in Wonderland
The themes addressed in the Alicia text in the Wonderland are very varied, they range from the routine that we take adults occupied with work and social problems, leaving aside many aspects of the world this is represented by the hatter among otherscharacters, the has.
We also find the intolerance that is another issue that every day is getting worse in the world, since we have less and less patience among us we simply want to pass on others without interest in other aspects, this would be represented by the Queen of Hearts with her government.
It is also represented in the text the transition that children pass to adolescence, those new feelings full of insecurity that many adolescents pass, this would be represented by the main character Alicia.
In our opinion, reading texts such as Alicia in Wonderland is very important, since it provides a huge door to a world of fantasies that frees us a little from reality, but at the same time helps us to improve our understanding,That we know how to order ideas, and to use our thinking to reason about different aspects of the text, because without reasoning and analyzing it would not be possible to understand aspects that the text provides in a more abstract way, we also believe that it would be very useful for university students bythe fact that they could use their logical thinking much more.
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It occurs when Alicia is asking for Cheshire’s cat, she tells him that he can take two directions and that following any direction he would meet crazy people, Alicia protest because he does not want to deal with someone crazy, but the cat tells him that this is inevitable becauseThere everyone is crazy, including him. The girl asks how he knows that he is crazy, to which the cat responds:
"The dogs are not crazy. In agreement? […] You know that dogs growl when they are angry, and move their tail when they are happy. Well, I grow up when I’m happy, and I move the tail when I’m angry. Therefore, I’m crazy. (P. 61)
Alicia represents the main character of the text, it is a dreamy girl, creative and disobedient and very curious, where her curiosity was the one who led her to chase the rabbit and start the story. Alicia throughout the text is going through different transitions in fact at a time of the text, she no longer knows who she is, since she suffers from an identity crisis, she also goes through other normal transitions of adolescence.
The Hatter is an eccentric, crazy and a bit irrational character reminiscent.
Cheshire’s cat, is a mischievous and playful character, who can appear and disappear at his craving, better known for his famous ear to ear, which is the main reason for comparison with actor and comedian Tim Curry, who played theVillano Pennywise in the IT miniseries, where his smile was quite characteristic of the character.
The Queen of Hearts, is narcissistic, rigid and intolerant and likes to solve the problems by beheading anyone who offends her. This character resembles the Tsar of Russia, Paul I, from whom it is said that it was irascible, vindictive and punished anyone who did not share their opinions, and that it came to cause the fall in disgrace of many of its generals.
"The burrow was straight like a tunnel for a long stretch, Alicia could not think about stopping and even before realizing she found it falling so it seemed a very deep well". Page 8
This is interpreted as a symbolic journey around the passage of childhood to the adult world.
“By the way, what happened to the child you carried in the arms? It became a pig said Alicia quietly. Page 67
During Alicia’s passage through this disturbing and incoherent world, reality moves away from everything, with a nonsense world, but anything is possible within it.
“I would be much more interested in seeing the March hare. In addition, as we are already in May, maybe it is no longer so crazy … at least not as much as in March ”Page 68
Some characters make reflections when any committed situation occurs.
"OMG! This clock has been delayed three days!- He sighed the hat. And becoming angry at the March hare, he reproached him-: I told you that the butter would not sit well with the machinery!". Page 72
It is a world where madness reigns, all the characters are crazy. Sometimes Alicia does not understand anything they say why they continually talk about issues that make no sense.
She points out that literary works teach us to think and have a critical judgment. Thanks to reading, we can get conclusions about the different environments, situations and people who know each other.
The personality configuration of each individual who will bring personal judgment, knowledge on their own, enrich their vision of the world and learn to contrast different points of view to think about a personal way and acquire a critical mentality.
Alicia in Wonderland is characterized by having a wide variety of literary techniques so that it is more imaginative, thoughtful of frequent use of logic and psychology to offer an appropriate behavior model.
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