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Alice in

Wonderland

Cavaliere Francesco, Paoli Viola,

Rainoni Benedetta, Tutore Laura

  • Novel published in 1865
  • Written to Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
  • Alice really did exist, her name was Alice Liddell. She was one of the daughter of the Vice-chancellor of Oxford. She became the protagonist thanks to a story she told to Dodgson

INTRODUCTION

LEWIS CARROLL

- Charles Lutwidge Dodgson

- Birth : Cheshire in 1832

- Happy childhood

- Lecturer in Mathematics

- Books for children:

Alice Adventures in Wonderland

and

Through the looking-glass

- Dual nature: Dodgson/Carroll

- Nonsensical world

- Death: in 1898

PLOT

The Plot

The Plot

- Alice sees the White Rabbit

- The White Rabbit pulls out a pocket watch

- Alice follows the White Rabbit

- Hole

- Small door and beautiful garden

- Alice cries

- Bottle marked 'DRINK ME'

- Cake marked 'EAT ME'

- Alice cries again

- Alice enter the door

Encounter with the White Rabbit

Encounter with the Caterpillar

- Alice meets the White Rabbit again

- Alice like a servant

- Alice drink an unmarked bottle

-Alice meets the Caterpillar on a mushroom

- The Caterpillar is smoking hookah

- Alice eats a part of mushroom and her neck stretches

- Alice eats another part of mushroom and shrinks

- Alice enters in the Dutchess' house

- The Duchess behaves rudely to Alice

- Then, Alice meets the Cheshire Cat

- He explains to Alice that everyone in Wonderland is mad

- He gives directions to the March Hare's house and fades away

Encounter with the Cheshire Cat

Encounter with the Mad Hatter and the March Hare

- Alice meets the Mad Hatter, the March Hare and the Dormouse

- Tea-time

- Great table

- Alice is uninvited

- They are trapped in tea-time

- Queen of Hearts

- Game of croquet

- Mallets and balls are flamingos and hegehogs

- Cheshire Cat again

- The Duchess approaches to Alice

- Announcement of a trial

- Mad Hatter gives his testimony

- Alice protests

- Queen is furious with Alice and orders the beheading

- Alice grows

Encounter with the Queen's of Hearts

Awakeness

- Alice wakes up

- Sister of Alice

- Alice tells her sister about her dream

TRAILER

CHARACTERS

Characters

CHARACTERS

The Duchess

The Queen

of Hearts

Alice

The White Rabbit

The Queen

of Hearts

The King

of hearts

The King

of Hearts

The Knave

of Hearts

The Knave of Hearts

The Cheshire Cat

The Duchess

The Caterpillar

The Mad Hatter

The March Hare

The

The Dourmouse

Dormouse

Alice's sister

ANALYSIS

Analysis

The plunge into the rabbit hole

plunge into deep sleep

Alice runs away from the world of her sister

but Wonderland thwarts her expectations

motif of frustrated desire

The White Rabbit

Alice believes that...

the capture of the White Rabbit

new knowledge of satisfaction

Alice's desire to enter the garden

feelings of nostalgia that accompany grow up

Alice confused about her identity

her desire to

remain a child

avoid the pressures of adulthood

The paradox of Wonderland

Alice must accept the logic of nonsense

Alice will go mad with contradiction

Confusion of identity

Alice is no longer the same as at home

Alice no longer knows who she is

The Cheshire Cat understands that wonderland and all of inhabitants exists as a figment of Alice's dreaming imagination

Alice discovers that Time

is a person

isn't an abstract concept

is a specific 'him'

isn't an abstract 'it'

Time can punish those who have offended it

Mad Hatter

and

March Hare

Alice's growth

awareness that Wonderland is an illusion

Alice understands that...

Wonderland is a dream

she wakes up and shatters the illusion

Final scene

Alice's sister trivializes the journey

Journey

strange tale to tell

THEMES

Themes

Themes

The tragic and inevitable loss of childhood innocence

The tragic and inevitable loss of childhood innocence

- Alice goes through physical changes traumatic

-She feels the discomfort that occur during puberty, frustration and sadness

Life as a meaningless puzzle

- Puzzles without clear solutions

- The riddles and challenges have no purpose or answer.

Death as a constant and underlying menace

- Alice continually risks death.

- Alice takes risks that could kill her, she never considers death as a possible outcome.

- Then Alice understands that death may be a real threat.

A dream

- The characters of the real world mix with elements of Alice’s unconscious state.

- The dream motif explains the abundance of nonsensical events in the story.

12 LIFE TEACHINGS

12 LIFE TEACHINGS

Manage your personal growth

It’s the most important metaphor in story. The message is to spend your life growing.

Know what you really want and bet on that

In fact, Alice learns the importance of knowing what she wants.

Always say what you really mean

In fact, the characters export Alice to “say what she means”.

Develop your own identity

Everyone always asks Alice who she is and she makes a journey to find her identity.

We’re all mad!

According to Cheshire’s Cat. Story teaches us to accept who is different from us and not judge.

Life is what you decide

We must take back life and find happiness.

Dream of impossible things

Alice always dreams unimaginable things and teaches us never to let someone else decide what’s impossible for you.

Always follow the White Rabbit

Always be curious or impulsive.

You’ll be a different person, today and tomorrow

Alice teaches us that every day we’re different people.

Sometimes you have to fall into a hole to climb to the top

This teaches us that sometimes in life you have to go through sad periods because after that the sun will come back.

Life is a fantastic series

of adventures

If we had never laughed or cried would our life be boring. In fact, life is beautiful because it’s full of twists and turns.

Positivity here and now

You have to sorround yourself with people who give us positive energy thorugh the smiles.

TEST

TEST

1. What kind of movies are you gonna watch?

a) Animated

b) Comic

c) Historical

d) Fantasy

2. What kind of personality do you think you have?

a) Quiet

b) They call me a madman

c) Authoritarian

d) Bubbly

3. Which destination do you prefer in the summer?

a) A place I’ve never seen

b) Alaska

c) Any place, as long as I feel like a queen

d) I’m always undecided

4. Where do you usually read?

a) Wherever I am

b) On a boat in the middle of a lake

c) Read? I already live in a book

d) At my home

5. It’s the middle of the night, you have lost your home keys and you are locked out. What do you do?

a) I wait till morning

b) I take the opportunity to experience the city at night

c) I’ll break down the door

d) I try to pick the lock

6. How do you like to spend your days?

a) Reading

b) Visiting places never seen

c) Organizing foolowing days

d) Joking with friends

7. You’re dating someone, but you’re uncomfortable. What do you do?

a) I’ll stay at least until the end of the night

b) I pretend to have an unexpected engagement

c) Tease him (lo prendo in giro)

d) I’m telling you straight

With most of the letter, you’re...

A White Rabbit

B Mad Hatter

C Queen of Hearts

D March Hare

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