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British Literature III Group 7 Report Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Hana Hsieh Irene Lin (late) Michael Chiang Lilian Chu Andrew Wu Shao Chen (late) Cynthia Su

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British Literature III

Group 7 Report

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Hana Hsieh

Irene Lin (late)

Michael Chiang

Lilian Chu

Andrew Wu

Shao Chen (late)

Cynthia Su

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Outline Background

The Relationship between Alice Liddell and Lewis Carroll

The Relationship between Alice Liddell and Prince Leopold

Theme of Analysis and Plot Overview

Analysis of Selected Events and Encounters The Caucus-Race

The Caterpillar and the Cheshire Cat

The Mad-Tea Party and the Royal Garden scene

The Trial

Multimedia Presentation Discussion and Conclusion

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Background:

The Untold Story of

Alice In Wonderland

Michael Chiang 498200290

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Relationship between Alice Liddell

and Lewis Carroll

Missing Diaries- “Cut pages in diary document”

Photographs of nude or semi-nude girls taken by L.C

The Liddell Riddle

Pedophilia? Benevolence?

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Missing diaries

The disappearance of four complete volumes

and around seven pages of text from Dodgson's

13 diaries

In 1853~1863. –(starting composing love

poetry)

The missing page (27 June 1863)

Conceal a proposal of marriage on that day by Dodgson to the

11-year-old Alice Liddell (27 June 1863)

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“Cut pages in diary document“

Gossip---with Liddell family's

governess as well as "Ina", Alice's older

sister, Lorina Liddell.

The "break" with the Liddell family

has nothing to do with Alice Liddell?

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Photographs of nude or semi-nude girls

Dressed in beggar garb,

off-the-shoulder neckline,

liquid posture, and her

frank suction gaze…

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The Liddell Riddle A BOAT beneath a sunny sky,

Lingering onward dreamily

In an evening in July --

Children three that nestle near,

Eager eye and willing ear,

Pleased a simple tale to hear –

Long has paled that sunny sky:

Echoes fade and memories die:

Autumn frosts have slain July.

Still she haunts me phantomwise,

Alice moving under skies

Never seen by waking eyes.

Children yet the tale to hear,

Eager eye and willing ear,

Lovingly shall nestle near.

In a Wonderland they lie,

Dreaming as the days go by,

Dreaming as the summers die:

Ever drifting down the stream --

Lingering in the golden gleam --

Life what is it but a dream?

Alice Pleasance Liddell

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Pedophilia? Benevolence? In Victorian society… not unusual for men like Lewis Carroll to have close platonic

relationships with young girls like Alice.

not uncommon for young girls like Alice to be photographed

scantily clad.

not unusual for close platonic relationships to end at the age

Victorian parents started looking for suitable husbands for

their daughter.

During his lifetime Lewis Carroll supported numerous charities with a focus

on helping poor children and young women. He believed passionately in the

importance of educating girls beyond domestic duties.

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There are a number of possibilities; a romantic interest

in Alice, speculation that he attempted to propose

marriage to Lorina, Alice’s older sister or, that he was

only befriending the children in order to get close to

Miss Picketts, the children’s governess. Or…

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Relationship between Alice Liddell and

Prince Leopold

Prince Leopold, the youngest

son of Queen Victoria

“Commoner” vs. Prince

Prince Leopold

When Alice married to Reginald Hargreaves she named her

first son Leopold and he named his daughter Alice. Perhaps

they were both thinking of the sage advice that the Duchess

gives Alice in chapter 9

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Theme of Analysis and Plot Overview

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Theme of Analysis

Alice’s adventures through Wonderland could well be seen as a process of socialization and a young girl’s struggles with puberty.

Alice changes size many times in the story and encounters many strange characters and events that forces her to question society. What do the events signify, and what does she come to realize?

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Alice’s Overall Changes

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Alice’s height: 120 cm

1. Shrink: 25 cm Bottle– “Drink me”→too short to reach the table.

Alice’s changes

2. Grow: 275 cm Cake—”eat me”→goodbye feet

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3. Shrink: 12.5cm The fan→swim in her tears →Caucus Race

4. Grow: unknown size Little bottle→grow too much in the Rabbit‘s house

6. The chin was pressed against her foot Mushroom→one side taller , the other shorter.

5. Shrink: 7.5cm Cake→escape from the house

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7. Her neck is higher than the tree. Mushroom

8. Back to normal: 120cm Mushroom

9. Shrink: 22.5cm Mushroom: in order to get into the little house

10. Grow: 60cm Mushroom─→attend the Tea-Party

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11. Shrink: 30 cm Mushroom→ get into the beautiful garden

12. Grow: 120cm Don’t know why→wake up

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Analysis of Selected Events and Encounters

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Analysis: The Caucus-Race

Lilian Chu

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Outline

• Shows the absurdity of life

• Meaningless of life

• Alice’s learning of the real life.

• Alice’s Reactions

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An Absurd Game - No exact shape of the race-course. “First it marked

out a race-course, in a sort of circle”

- No starting line. “…all the party were placed along the course, here and there.”

- Does not define the beginning and the end. “There was no ‘One, two, three, and away,’ but they began running when they liked, and left off when they liked.”

- Dodo announces the over of the game randomly.

- Dodo decides the winner and the prize provider by his will.

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• They try to find a winner in the end, which does not really matter.

–They forget the purpose of the game is to dry themselves!

• Does running really makes the clothes dry?

• Also, “caucus” in England stands for a political meeting, so Alice is understanding the absurdity of politics, and the grown-up world.

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Meaningless of Life

• Life is just like the circle of the race-course

– Chasing each others

– Running without knowing the beginning and the end.

– No judges

– Everyone gets something.

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Alice’s Learning of Real Life

• There is no fairness

– No time for Alice to learn the rules and then play the game.

– No righteous judge.

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Alice’s Reactions

• Just follow what other animals do / ask

– Play the game without thinking if it is useful

– Offer the prize as others ask her to do so

– Try to be as grave as other animals do when accepting the prize

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Analysis on the Caterpillar & Cheshire Cat

Hana Hsieh

498200305

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The Caterpillar

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Chapter V: Advice from a Caterpillar

Ignore Alice at first 1. sits on a mushroom 2. smokes a hookah pile

Treat Alice with contempt 1. keep questioning her about identity 2. correct her recitation of a poem

Advise Alice to eat the mushroom if she wants to change her size

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Caterpillar: ‘Who are YOU?’

Alice: ‘I—I hardly know…, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.’

C: ‘What do you mean by that? Explain yourself!’

A: ‘I can’t explain MYSELF… because I’m not myself, you see.’

C: ‘I don’t see.’

A: ‘…; and being so many different sizes in a day is very confusing.’

C: ‘You! Who are YOU?’

A: ‘… I can’t remember things as I used—and I don’t keep the same size for then minutes together!’

IDEN

TITY

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Caterpillar: ‘What size do you want to be?’

Alice: ‘Oh, I’m not particular as to size; only one doesn’t like changing so often, you know.’

C: ‘I DON’T know.’

A: ‘Well, I should like to be a LITTLE larger… three inches is such a wretched height to be.’

C: ‘It is a very good height indeed!’

A: ‘But I’m not used to it!’

C: ‘You’ll get used to it in time.’

C: ‘One side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter.’

C: ‘Of the mushroom.’

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Symbols Caterpillar – It represents the threat of sexuality for its phallic shape.

Mushroom – Alice needs to master the properties of it to control her fluctuating size.

Puberty (adolescence)

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Alice’s confusion of identity and her fluctuating sizes

The Caterpillar’s advice about the

mushroom

Undergo the process of “puberty”

(adolescence) and face the adult world

Alice has been questioned about her identity and keeps changing size.

Learn to control and adjust herself to

different environment (socialization)

The Caterpillar advises Alice to eat the mushroom for changing size.

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Cheshire Cat

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The Illusive ‘Cheshire Cat’

Appears its head in the air Listens to Alice/ causes a fight

Sits on a bough of a free Has conversation with Alice

Sits on the hearth Grins from ear to ear

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(witty)

Alice: ‘Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?

Cheshire Cat: ‘That depends a good deal on where you want to go to.’

A: ‘I don’t much care where –’

C: ‘Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.’

A: ‘—so long as I get SOMEWHERE.’

C: ‘Oh, you’re sure to do that if you only walk long enough.’

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Cheshire Cat: ‘… Visit either you like: they’re both mad.’

Alice: ‘But I don’t want to go among mad people.’

C: ‘Oh, you can’t help that;

we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.’

A: ‘How do you know I’m mad?’

C: ‘You must be or you wouldn’t have come here.’

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Cheshire Cat in the Croquet game

Alice’s awareness of the “nonsensical rules” of the Wonderland (adult world).

Cheshire Cat listens to Alice, but leaves a trouble her by

causing a quarrel.

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Alice’s change: Realization of the RULES

Cause: Alice learns the “mad rule” from Cheshire cat.

• Teenagers’ often face new rules ruled by adults in their world.

Consequence: Alice was unsure about the rules, but still bears that in mind.

• Teenagers can’t accept new rules at first, but they will remember them.

Alice’ response: Alice realizes the “mad rule” during the game, so she decides to overturn it finally.

• Teenagers find those rules are nonsensical, so they develop their own rules.

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Analysis on

The Mad-Tea Party

&

Royal Garden Scene

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• Attends a tea party with the Hatter, Hare, and dormouse

• The Hatter and Hare quarrel with her

• The dormouse is abused (squashed, made to tell a story, stuck in teapot, etc.)

• They argue about Time

• The Hatter and Hare give riddles with no answers

• Alice comes to see the tea party as the “stupidest” ever

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• Alice finds a door in a tree

• She enters by using the mushroom to make

herself a bit shorter, and enters into the

garden of the King and Queen of Hearts

• A garden is an artificial form of nature

• Beautiful and mysterious, but fake (painted

red roses, in particular)

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• The queen orders nearly everone to be

decapitated, but eventually we learn that no

one actually is.

Her power is not real

• They play croquet, very frustrating process

The game rules of upper-society are bizarre

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• The Cheshire Cat appears, and the Queen

cannot do anything about it.

The Queen has no control over a character

who has more insight then she does.

Even in the highest of social positions,

everything is nonsense and bizarre.

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Analysis on The Trial

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Events

• After the Mock-Turtle and Gryphon

• Someone has stolen the tarts

• Absurdity of King’s attire

• Jury (Absurdity of note-taking)

• Hatter (Alice starts to grow)

• Guinea pigs

• Duchess's Cook

• Alice (Knocks over jurors)

• Letter

• Alice’s rejection

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• Alice is first aware of how silly the King

dresses, and she knows the setting of a trial

(judge, jurors)

• Alice comes to realize that the jurors know

nothing. They can’t be sure of remembering

even their names, and when she shouts

“stupid,” they write it down.

Carroll is mocking the trial setting of society

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• The Hatter is the first witness

• The King bullies him. Threatens him with his

life.

• The King makes the jurors write down

irrelevant things.

Alice sees the absurdity of the trial process

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• The guinea pigs are “suppressed” for cheering randomly.

Perhaps representing the ignorance of most of the populace, and how easily they are influenced. Also reflects how the upper class abuse the lower class.

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• Alice starts to grow as she watches the Hatter

being questioned.

She feels indignant and can see through how

unjust and absurd the whole thing is. Her insight

makes her grow; see is now an observer

• Eventually, she overturns the jury

• Rejects everything as “a pack of cards”

• The cards attack her, and she wakes up

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Multimedia Presentation:

Alice in Wonderland and its

Contemporary Influence

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Discussion and Conclusion

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Discussion

• At the end, Alice wakes up after she rejects everything as “a pack of cards.” In your opinion, what does "a pack of cards" mean?

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Discussion

• After Alice wakes up, she reeturns to reality. Does she continue to believe that society is just like “a pack of cards”? Or does she go back into society conforming to its rules?

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Discussion

• The “pack of cards”

→ the Victorian society is just a “game”

→ the people in power make the rules, everything is nonsensical and absurd

• But Alice doesn’t reject society as a pack of cards.

• After Alice wakes up → she learns that the whole society is like a pack of cards, but her sister still imagines her with children, which means that perhaps she continues to follow the rules society sets.

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Conclusion

• The changes and encounters Alice goes through can be seen as a process of socialization and struggles with puberty.

• The Caucus-Race, Mad-Tea Party, and Trial enlighten her on how absurd, unjust, nonsensical, and tyrannical society is.

• The Caterpillar and Cheshire Cat shed light on how Alice comes to understand herself and her direction in life. She also understands that rules are arbitrary.

• Alice escapes wonderland by rejecting everything, but once she comes back to reality, we are left to ponder whether Alice views her own society also as “a pack of cards.”

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