I love Alice's Adventure's in Wonderland. Now all I need to do is see the movie. Movies never seem to do the books they take after justice. How ever it is interesting to see a director or company to portray the images you read. I feel Tim Burtons portrayal of Alice in Adventures in Wonderland will be very vivid and trippy unlike Disney's which I imagine will be family friendly and pastel colored. However Lewis Carroll's has written a story with so much creative imagery, and situation that taking on the task of recreating Alice's Adventure's in Wonderland seems very daunting. Millions have read the book and each pictures Alice, the Cheshire cat, and The Queen of Hearts in a different way. The crochet scene alone; Mission Impossible 6. Alice says it's confusing herself. It has so many little crawly creepy objects running around; hedgehogs, headless cards, cats, flamingos, soldiers. I read the croquet episode three times so I could take it in. Rather like a AP Lang multiple choice passage :) Oh goodness.
One thing I want to touch on before I end this post, did Lewis Carroll have an alternative motive in writing this? Was he trying to send philosophical messages to society? It feels like he was. "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "you must be, said the cat, " or you wouldn't have come here." It seems like he has so much to say that I don't understand. Mostly because I was born in the wrong time period and have nothing to base my understand off of. Who was he again? He seems to be a disturbed yet, talented man.
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ReplyDeleteYour journal is delightfully entertaining to read. With your Latin translations, I suspect you can think of things as unusual as did Carroll! Will your books become classics one day? I hope so. As to alternative motives, I haven't studied it (just read for fun as did you), but I believe there's an element of satire, but I haven't reread since I heard that.