I heard that the tale of Alice in Wonderland was originally gruesome, but couldn't find anything on the internet referring to it. I missed the wizard of oz reference! (As that is rather a hard word, I will just explain to you how it was done. 'You should learn not to make personal remarks,' Alice said with some severity; 'it's very rude. LitCharts Teacher Editions. I don't see them basing a season off an existing work of fiction, they seem to be doing horror tropes and genres. This unofficial subreddit is dedicated to the stories, worlds, and magic of all things Disney! Fan subreddit for the hit TV series American Horror Story. Stuff where there's some existing history/mythology/fiction in place but they can formulate their own story and bring in different elements, like how they combined witchcraft & voodoo with slavery and also brought in zombies in S3. "—so long as I get SOMEWHERE," Alice added as an explanation. Tell her to begin.' Alice’s journey is fraught with misunderstandings and offences due to language. Others have seen it as an elaborate celebration of the picnic teas he provided for the Liddell children. I'm not really sure why it didn't delve into "Through the Looking Glass" if it was trying to dissect its meaning much further. Alice is fundamentally different in nature from stories like Snow White and Red Riding-Hood, which were folktales passed down over many generations and which evolved from fairly gruesome stories to their current, popular sanitized versions... Alice was written by one man in the … Last modified on Thu 22 Feb 2018 08.01 EST. Alice in Wonderland – what does it all mean? He has been linked to mind control theories etc. Oh, and its the third in a trilogy based on space travel (oh dear). The Mad Hatter is especially affected by this condition of meaninglessness and he is also one of the most wordy of the characters, constantly assessing his own and others’ grammar and syntax to challenge the received meanings of language. That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat. In fact many critics are convinced that the whole story is so full of references to the city that it should be viewed as an elaborate Oxford in-joke. It's HIM. Sort by. In reading "The Alienist" by Caleb Carr, I learned a lot about the attitude toward children, and it was far from unusual for them to be regarded as fair play for sexual uses by the "gentlemen" of the day. By using our Services or clicking I agree, you agree to our use of cookies. Don't Panic! Starting with a bottle (“DRINK ME”) that makes Alice shut up like a telescope, and a cake (“EAT ME”) that turns her into a giant, Carroll’s story often returns to the subject of food and drink. A serial killer, more prolific than Jack the Ripper: H. H. Holmes. “The whole thing is a dream,” Carroll told the dramatist Tom Taylor, “but that I don’t want revealed till the end.” Beginning with a rabbit that disappears and reappears, like a magic trick that has infiltrated real life, Carroll’s story develops by generating a real dream’s characteristic mixture of vagueness and vividness. Even now, age of consent varies between 16 -18 yrs. There is no dark tale. "Why is a raven like a writing desk?" 1. The games feel more Burtonesque than his movie did. AiW is too far outside the larger American theme. 'I don't believe it,' said the Pigeon; 'but if they do, why then they're a kind of serpent, that's all I can say. 'Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124632317. But as he said in Through the Looking Glass: It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. Wordplay makes Wonderland what it is. I really do apologize if this is considered a shitpost, but I couldn't think of a better place to ask about it than in r/books. But, we were told that Top Hat was an "arcane clue" which may be a meta clue in itself as arcane is usually a word associated with the occult/magic.

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