As she cries, the Cheshire Cat appears in a nearby tree, to her utter delight. Alice wails that she is done with following white rabbits and wants to find her way home. The cat directs her to a secret passageway to a twisting hedge maze surrounding a castle. Alice walks into the hedge maze and comes across a palace garden with white rose trees. She is befuddled to find a trio of cheery Spade playing cards armed with paintbrushes painting the roses red.
The cards explain to her how they planted the white roses by mistake and they are trying to correct themselves since the penalty is losing their heads. Alice willingly lends a hand, but are halted upon the arrival of the Queen of Hearts, the diminutive king, and an entourage of spear-toting card soldiers.
In a panic, the three grounds workers try to shift the blame to one another, but the belligerent Queen sends them off to be executed. Alice tries to plea for them, but the Queen strong-arms Alice into a game of croquet.
Although she has played before, Alice is surprised to see the mallets and balls are flamingos and gophers respectively. The entire game operates under the Queen's constant threat of beheading. The card soldiers, serving as the brackets, are careful to place themselves in front of the rolling ball, and the flamingos and gophers dare not upset her. Alice is not so lucky with her own flamingo, who tickles, embarrasses, and wrestles with the girl.
The Cheshire Cat appears in and out of gameplay, but only to Alice. The Queen is quickly angered by Alice's repeated claims that the cat is there. When the cat plays a trick on the Queen, she eagerly orders Alice's execution, but the king manages to earn her a trial.
Alice's trial is a convoluted, nonsensical proceeding full of irrelevant hearings from the March Hare and Mad Hatter and imaginary evidence against Alice.
When the Cheshire Cat orchestrates another trick against the Queen, Alice receives the blame again. Alice gobbles down the pieces of mushroom in her apron and shoots toward the ceiling to tower over the courtroom. Alice brushes away the attacking card soldiers carelessly and refuses to leave the courtroom, despite Rule 42 stating that people more than a mile high cannot be present. Alice calls the Queen a "fat, pompous, bad-tempered old tyrant" just as she realizes the other mushroom piece has returned her to normal size.
The Queen screams out "Off with her head!! In the confusion, Alice escapes the castle and the hedge maze and flees through the previously visited segments of Wonderland. When she arrives back at the doorknob, she looks through the keyhole and sees herself asleep under a tree. In , the handwritten work was given back to the United Kingdom and is now in the British Museum. Two years later, Alice died at the age of 82, but her legacy continues to live on.
She may not have given anyone more of a sense of wonder as she did for Carroll, however. The beloved hymn and its author John Newton, a former enslaver, have inspired a new Broadway musical, but the true history is complex and ambiguous.
From hair care products to the ironing board, the creations from these African Americans still impact your everyday life. Exploring themes of racism, oppression and violence, these African American writers have rightfully earned their place in the canon of great authors. While the movie is often praised as one of the greatest of all time, behind the scenes, controversy surrounded the film, including who wrote the script.
Learn about the Jewish refugee whose painting of her aunt was stolen by Nazis and inspired the movie starring Helen Mirren. But there she encountered her royal Majesty of Wonderland the Queen of Hearts. She was a mean and controlling Queen with a cutthroat, sociopathic personality who dominated even the King who seemed terrified of her, as well as the rest of her royal subjects who resided within her red court.
The Queen also forced her subjects to play unfair games of croquet with pink flamingos as mallets. The Queen cheated at these games to win every time, and everybody else let her, for when the Queen became angry or didn't get her way she would lose her temper at anyone over the slightest mistake. Such as someone eating her tarts. After Alice made the mistake of upsetting the Red Queen, the poor girl ended up in a court of law with a jury full of funny talking animals.
There, the people of Wonderland began to gang up on her and wanted to take her head. But Alice was not about to let herself be decapitated over such ridiculous rules. She suddenly began to grow larger, and larger until her head hit the top of the ceiling.
She was an enormous giant, overpowering the entire court and evoking death threats from the King and Queen. Ultimately, Alice lost her temper finally and screamed back at everyone around her below that they were all nothing but a silly pack of cards.
This angered the court and they all turned on Alice under the red Queen's orders. Just as everyone was closing in on Alice and the pack of cards cornered her to seal her doom, she luckily woke up and found herself next to her older sister on the bank once again, assuming that it all was nothing more than a mere dream that she had dreamt on that warm summer day on that golden afternoon. Our tale deals with a slightly older Alice and happens indoors on a snowy, winter night exactly six months after her adventures in Wonderland, on November 4th.
One random evening, Alice is bored as usual and is left all alone in a room inside her mansion home with no one for company but the soothing crackling of the fireplace. Sitting in a big grown-up chair next to a window, Alice watched the snowflakes fall from the sky outside. Alice wishes to herself that she were old enough to join everyone else at the bonfire that is being held. Unable to go, Alice sulks about in a lethargic state. But her pet cat, Dinah , on the other hand, is now a mother cat of a litter consisting one black and one white baby kitten.
Looking at her own reflection in a large looking glass hung up upon the wall above a high mantel, Alice began wondering what life was like on the other side of this mirror. When she tried to enter the mirror, she found she could step right into it and enter the alternative world on the other side where everything was the opposite of what she was used to, even time in this realm ran backwards.
Here, she quickly finds a book with looking-glass poetry, a story titled Jabberwocky , whose reversed printing on the pages can be read only by holding it up to the mirror.
Alice also observes that the chess pieces in the room have come to life, though they remain small enough for her to pick up. Suddenly she finds herself shrunken down several sizes. Then Alice meets the Red Queen. The Red Queen shows her a view of the countryside, which is divided into an enormous chessboard. Alice asks to be allowed to play in the giant living game of chess, and the Red Queen assigns her the role of White Pawn. Alice is to start in the Second Square, cross six brooks the divisions between squares, and end up in the Eighth Square, where she will become a Queen.
Alice met many new characters and beings. All while on her quest to reach the end of the Wonderland chessboard and become an official Queen. In the end, Alice finds herself growing back to her normal size again. She then picks up the Red Queen and shakes her like a salt shaker until the piece turns into a kitten.
When this happens Alice suddenly awakens to find herself back in the original room of the looking glass. The story ends with Alice recalling the speculation of events and that everything may have, in fact, been a dream, yet Alice might herself be no more than a someone's dream or a figment of someone else's imagination. One final poem is inserted by the author, Lewis Carroll as a sort of epilogue ending which suggests that life itself is but a dream.
To most people who are familiar with Wonderland and the classic tale of little girls falling down rabbit holes and murderous Croquet playing Queens, Alice is just an imaginary figure who finds herself in impossibly illogical situations due to her burning curiosity. She is a popular and iconic character of fiction who was created in the year by children's author and storyteller Lewis Carroll. The inspiration for Alice was actually based off of a real child: a close friend of Carroll who was also named Alice Alice Liddell.
Carroll would tell stories about strange adventures underground to entertain Alice and her other sisters as innocent fun on warm summer days. While having little picnics on the vast meadows near the lakes of Oxford, London, reading poems, having luncheon with tea, painting pictures, building card houses and making flower crowns, Carroll and his sophisticated party very much enjoyed these funny stories on those golden afternoons to pass the time.
Later on, Lewis Carroll would collect these stories, and go on to write his famous classic book, originally titled " Alice's Adventures Underground ", which he would dedicate to the real-life Alice Liddel. There are a few available books written about the real Alice and the relationship she had with Carroll. Both novels are slightly romanticized in writing but are mainly based on all fact. The original illustrations of Alice were entirely in black and white, so her character's colour had not been officially established.
It was Disney's classic version of Alice that helped make the popular iconic image of the character of Alice in general. Disney's Alice appeared to have thick, shoulder-length blonde hair adorned with a black ribbon tied in a bow, big blue eyes with long lashes, red or dark pink lips, hot pink nails, fair skin, rosy cheeks and wearing a cerulean blue short puffy-sleeved knee-length dress with a white pinafore, a corset, frilly white knee-length pantalettes, matching petticoat, pure white thigh-high lace stockings and shod in black strapped, polished Mary Jane shoes also with thin buckles.
This Disney look has perhaps become the classic and most widely recognized Alice in Wonderland dress in later works and costumes. Tenniel drew Alice in two variants: for Through the Looking-Glass, her pinafore is more ruffled and she is shown in striped black and white stockings, an image which has remained in much of the later art.
Also in Through the Looking-Glass, her hair is held back with a wide ribbon, normally depicted as black. Many fans of L. Frank Baum's Oz stories and fans of Wonderland and the world through the Looking Glass have used the two elements and characters to parallel each other in entertaining stories. Alice's character has been given life within the Oz stories in spin-off takes combining the Wonderland creatures and the characters from the land of Oz.
Alice has teamed up with Dorothy Gale in comic strips and books. These comics are aimed for more mature comic readers but are enjoyable nonetheless and are collectable items.
It is rumoured that the protagonist child character Dorothy Gale from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz , published in and written by children's author L. Frank Baum, was inspired and loosely based upon a few of the personality traits of Alice. While entertaining the three Liddell sisters, Alice, Lorina and Edith, during a boating trip, Dodgson improvised the story that would become Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
The main character, Alice, shared many characteristics with Alice Liddell, being stubborn, precocious and curious, although the famous illustration of Alice by John Tenniel would depart strongly from Liddell's brunette bob and short fringe. Liddell urged Dodgson to write the story down, and he gifted her the first manuscript , which he illustrated himself, in November , titled Alice's Adventures Under Ground.
The story was eventually published with illustrations by John Tenniel as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in , followed by Alice Through the Looking Glass in — the beginning of a global phenomenon.
Whilst Dodgson Carroll went on to achieve fame as the story's author, the 'real' Alice evaded public attention. At Christ Church she was tutored by the leading 19th-century English art critic, John Ruskin, who supported and encouraged her talent for drawing. In December , aged 19, she embarked upon a Grand Tour of Europe with her sisters Edith and Lorina, writing diligently in a travel journal and sketching the sights along the way.
While in Naples, she wrote of the "showers of stones and lumps of red hot stuff and puffs of smoke" as the three sisters boldly conquered the summit of Mount Vesuvius. It erupted soon after.
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