The first is Disney’s animated film Alice in Wonderland from 1951, which combines characters and situations from both books, and is one of the best known visual representations of Alice’s world. This comparative analysis is trying to illustrate the way in which the result of Lewis Carroll’s imagination was used in three different adaptations. Have appreciated the idea of having his stories rewritten and adapted for every The process of writing his first book, (Leach, 1999) one could assume he would As theĪuthor himself took into consideration the response received from children in Even if they are animations or films, theseĪdaptations are still very popular among both children and adults. Wonderland” and ”Alice through the looking glass”, have been repeatedly adaptedįor the screen over the last century. Some including Martin Gardner, speculate that there was an earlier version that was destroyed later by Dodgson when he wrote a more elaborate copy by hand.īut before Alice received her copy, Dodgson was already preparing it for publication and expanding the 15,500-word original to 27,500 words, most notably adding the episodes about the Cheshire Cat and the Mad tea-party.Lewis Carroll’s books, ”Alice’s adventures in On 26 November 1864, he gave Alice the handwritten manuscript of Alice Adventures Under Ground, with illustrations by Dodgson himself, dedicating it as “A Christmas Gift to a Dear Child in Memory of a Summer Day”. He added hi own illustration but approached John Tenniel to illustrate the book for publication, telling him that the story had been well liked by children.

To add the finishing touches, he researched natural history for the animals presented in the book, and then had the book examined by other children-particularly the children of George MacDonald. The girls and Dodgson took another boat trip a month later when he elaborated the plot to the story of Alice and in November he began working on the manuscript in earnest. He began writing the manuscript of the story the next day, although that earliest version no longer exists. The girls loved it, and Alice Liddell asked Dodgson to write it down for her. During the trip, Dodgson told the girls a story that featured a bored little girl named named Alice who goes looking for an adventure. The journey began at Folly Bridge in Oxford and ended 3 miles north-west in the village of God-stow. It’s narrative course and structure, characters and imagery have been enormously influential in both popular culture and literature especially in the fantasy genre.Īlice was published in 1885, three years after Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and the Reverend Robinson Duckworth rowed a boat up the Isis on 4 July 1862 (this popular date of the “golden afternoon” might be a confusion or even another Alice-tale, for that particular day was cool, cloudy and rainy) with three young daughters of Henry Liddell (the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University and Dean of the Christ Church) Lorina Charlotte Liddell (aged 13, born 1849) Alice Pleasance Liddell (aged 10, born 1852) Edith Mary Liddell (age 8, born 1853). It is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. It tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland(commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll.

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