“Alice in Wonderland” and “Harry Potter” ‘Fantasy’ is a genre that uses magic and supernatural as a basic element of plot, theme and setting. Most of fantasy works have their setting in fictional world where magic is common, as we can see in the two novels, “Alice in Wonderland” and “Harry Potter.” They both are fantasy fictions. Anyway, there are some similarities and differences between the two which I am going to point out. “Alice in Wonderland” was written by the British author, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson or Lewis Carroll. The story tells the adventure of a young girl, Alice, in a wonderful land by accident.
Alice goes to Wonderland and Peter Pan goes to Neverland. In both books they are going to have to fight a bad person. In both books they go to magical places. It is magical because the way they got there. Alice goes down a rabbit hole to Wonderland and she has to fight the queen of hearts.
Introduction It is safe to way that in both versions of the novel and film Alice is an active female as the protagonist but to what extent?. “Alice’s adventures in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll is about a little girl called Alice who in her garden sees a rabbit then decides to follow it. She then falls down into a rabbit hole. Alice then enters into a fantasy world. In this world she meets strange anthropomorphic creatures.
Each book starts with Alice entering some other world (of fantasy) which is followed by a string of peculiar events and awakening at the end to discover that her adventure has only been a dream and she is back in the real world. Carroll has also talked about the subject of “One’s Identity” through his books. In Alice in Wonderland we see Alice fearing that her identity might have been switched with someone else. Similarly, we see that Alice, in Through the Looking Glass, loses her identity all together when she forgets her name. In both the books Carroll has raised this subject.
‘In The Bloody Chamber, childhood fairytales become the stuff of adult nightmares.’ With close reference to at least two stories from the collection, say how far you agree with this comment. Angela Carter’s decision to subvert the classic fairytale genre with twisted parodies of the original was shocking to readers at the time, and her stories certainly reveal more sinister and perverse depths of these fairytales – depths which the original authors surely did not intend on existing with their target audience of children in mind. Fairy tales are typically very non- realistic with phrases such as ‘Once upon a time’ - immediately implying a fantasy era and setting, being their famous opening lines. As with fairytales, nightmares are of course always fiction. They can be seen to be the predictor of future events and to say something about your life.
Disney added more of a magical feel to the story and took out of some the violence. They replaced it with a different way of showing the violence such as making the step mother mean and nasty. Revised Answer: Without past knowledge of the original telling of the Grimms collection of stories, I found it difficult to tell if there was distortion of the original stories.
The ones with a more clear resembles to the real life are the Scarecrow, Tin man, and the Wicked Witch of the East. The characters as well as their dilemmas’ have a deeper meaning then some may think. Each of the characters is symbolic to the ideas and events from the Populist movement. For example the Scarecrow’s problem seems to be that he is brainless. In the movie the Wizard of Oz Scarecrow is meant to be portrayed simple minded, When Dorothy first meets Scarecrow, in the movie, he can not seem to make up his mind on which path Dorothy should continue on to.
It is commonly accepted that this story, like all other science fiction pieces, is not real, but unlike many others, it has an eerie, mysterious mood throughout, which makes it interesting and keeps readers reading. The grandmother tries to figure out where the children came from, because their relative “Charlie is the closest, and he’ll five miles away. And they said they walked just a little piece” (128). The children also talk about “plains that folks used to travel in” (128). Considering that the woman has no clue what they are, this story must take place in the somewhat distant past, and the children seem to have come from the future.
This is taken at the beginning of her adventure symbolizing that Alice is still young and that she has a lot to learn before declaring herself an adult. Although before drinking the bottle she does make a convincing argument showing the beginning challenges of growing from a child into an adult. “‘No, I’ll look first,’ she said, ‘and see whether it’s marked ‘poison’ or not’; for she had read several nice little stories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wildbeasts, and other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them”(Carroll 15). Even though drinking an unknown substance can be very dangerous, and this is where Alice’s stupidity and childish characteristics come into play (Alice in Wonderland Themes 1). Carroll shows another characteristic of young Victorian girls that they always do what they are told to and were not allowed to challenge authority.
She later comments that at the time the scene did not look strange to her at the time. The rabbit exclaims that it is late for a previous engagement and proceeds to flee. Alice, who at this point is very curious, runs after the rabbit and follows it down a hole. The hole becomes a tunnel with a very sudden drop. As Alice is falling she begins to forget who she is and even entertains the thought of whether or not she will fall into New Zealand or Australia.