Critiques of Alice in Wonderland

Quite frankly, I loved this book. I never found anything in the book I didn't like. I loved how everything was so strange to Alice, and that she was having a hard time figuring out everything about Wonderland at first, but she soon became used to everything there. Even though the book is a children's book, it's a great read. I would suggest the book to anyone who loves the strange and to really think about why there are so many poems and riddles. All in all, just an amazing book.

Summary of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

In the beginning of the story, Alice in lying with her older sister, who was reading a book, when she soon began to feel extremely born when she saw a white rabbit running by, checking his pocket watch and nervous that he was going to be late. Alice follows him to a rabbit hole, and then falls down the rabbit hole for what seemed like hours. She saw all sorts of things as she was falling down, marmalade, tea cups, etc. When she fell to the floor, she was surrounded by a bunch of doors. There was a key on a table, but it only fit a door that was much to small for her to fit in. She opens the door anyway and sees a beautiful garden. When she turns around, there is a drink that clearly states, ‘Drink Me’. She sets the key down, and drinks the entire bottle. She soon shrunk to the size of the door, but she left the key on the table. Then there was a cake that said ‘Eat Me’, she ate the cake and grew large enough to hit her head on the high ceiling. She started crying, making a pool of her tears because she wasn’t sure how to shrink again. Then there was a fan and a set of white gloves the rabbit dropped as he was running by, so Alice had picked them up to see what they were all about. She shrunk down to size, and then followed a little mouse to shore where she met with several interesting animals. They all tried drying off by running, and soon enough Alice had offended all of the animals when talking about her cat Dinah, who would eat birds and mice. The rabbit came by, looking for his white gloves and fan, fearing the Duchess would have his head when he sent Alice for them at his home. She finds them, then finds yet another bottle that says, ‘Drink Me’. She ends up drinking half the bottle and grows to an uncomfortable size inside the home. The rabbit comes, demanding his gloves, and they get into a tiny little scuffle when Alice eventually finds another cake that says ‘Eat Me,’ and she grew small again. She runs into a caterpillar, smoking a long hookah and he tells her eventually how to grow a little bit larger. She soon finds the Duchess’ house and sees them torturing what seemed to be a small child. The Duchess finds her, gets angry and then throws the supposed child out. The child turned out to be a pig, and then Alice meets the Cheshire cat. He appears and disappears, but tells her to visit the Hatter and his tea party. She goes to the Hatter, and they do all sorts of things that are just plain strange and leaves to find her self at the Red Queen’s place. They play croquet with flamingoes and a hedgehog. Surely she felt it was very strange, but the Red Queen wasn’t exactly the nicest Queen you’d meet. She runs into the Duchess again, and then is sent off to listen to a sad turtle sing. She comes back to be in a trial as to who stole the Queen’s tart. She is called in, and she argues with the King and Queen about her possibly being guilty, and soon wakes up to be right next to her sister, reading the same book as before.

Alice Merchandise

So, if you have read and watched all of this Alice in Wonderland material, you probably think it's either super strange and don't like it, or you're really intrigued about it. I was just googling stuff for Alice in Wonderland when I found this merchandise sight that is really cool. It has backwards clocks with the hatter in the background, caterpillar earings, character charms for charm bracelets, and so much more. It really makes me want to buy some of this stuff, but I am a broke teenager unfortunately. If you have some money however, and just absolutely love Alice, check out the site below.

http://thewhiterabbit.net

Alice in Wonderland 2010

This movie is actually what got me interested in reading Alice in Wonderland. My sister had read it sometime ago, and after watching this film, I was truly intrigued. First off, the movie is a combination of both 'Alice's Adventures In Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There'. That's why you see a change in the movie from playing cards to a chess board. They kept a lot of the things the same from what I saw in the movie and from what I've read so far. It's really cool to see what the movie was like live action and then to imagine it. You could almost feel like you're in Wonderland yourself. I truly love it, and plan on buying it as soon as possible. You should too if you did not see it. It's a fantastic movie.

Alice in Wonderland: Japan Style

Let me just say this. This picture is beautiful. The story being based in England, it's really refreshing to see that everybody has their own vision of Alice. In America, Alice is a blonde haired, blue eyes little girl. That's the picture of pure innocence to us, but maybe Japan has a different idea. Maybe their idea of young and inncocent short black hair. The fact that the book has such an impact on our world's children is truly amazing. How a book made 145 years ago is still quite popular today is quite amazing.

Brown Univeristy's take on Alice in Wonderland

I truly agree with how the author puts their thoughts on what certain things mean in Wonderland. Like, how she asks towards the bottom, "How would the books original title, 'Alice's Adventures Underground,' affect your interpretation of Wonderland?" When I think underground, I tend to think of coal mines and really dirty places. It doesn't bring the wonder and excitement as Wonderland does. I think that's why it's called Wonderland, because it is full of wonder. To read the article, here's the link to it.

http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/carroll/decola8.htm

If you have never read the book...

I can tell you for sure it's a good read. There are parts where it really makes you wonder why it's consider a child's book, since there is some drug use in it, but all in all it's a great read. Don't have a library near you? Well, there's an online book that you can read it on. I would really suggest reading it, because you can form an opinion on whether or not the movies do a good job on following the story.

Here's the link.

http://bygosh.com/AIW/C01/AIWC01.htm

It even has illustrations!