- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through th.../Lewis Carroll
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As a child, I had always enjoyed the Disney's version of "Alice in Wonderland."
I found it to be quite amusing with its toast shaped butterflies, and its smoking
catepillars, and the grinning cat. What a fantastic world I thought.
As I read the original version, as in the original "book" written by Lewis Carroll, I found
the book to be rather disturbing and quirky. This could very well be due to the fact that
along the years of growing up, my Spanish teacher had informed me that
Lewis Carroll was actually a paedophile and his story of "Alice in Wonderland" was about
a drug trip.
What a way to destroy a fantasy, but while reading the story, I do admit that my Spanish
teacher's story did cross my mind. This goes to tell that people are easily influenced by
what has been informed to us in our adolescents, absorbing the words of so-called "authority"
without questioning whether what has been told is the truth or not.
As an adult, we should all becareful what we inform our children with.
Going back to the book itself, I found the illustration to be quite amusing, but
I do have to go back to fiding the story to be quirky and bizarre.
Maybe I look for the "moral" of the story too much?
Or maybe a basic story line too much?
I found that the book didn't make any sense, but maybe that
there was a hidden message about how people
behave in society, raising questions within myself, that maybe he is illustrating
how people act differently inorder to fit into what the society accepts and
lose oneself in figuring out who they really are?
How did I get this? Simple, Alice keeps on drinking this "potions" or
eating "mushrooms" that make her extremely big or extremely small,
that Alice really can't remember who she was, or who she thought she was anymore.
Whatever interpretations, or reviews there are of this book, maybe I would have to
read it a couple of times, to figure out the hidden messages... if there are any.
On the other hand, I do want to see the new movie "Alice in Wonderland"
with Jonny Depp. It should be interesting.
So maybe, Alice in Wonderland is more of a "visual" trip afterall....
