At the mention of the name Alice, one tends to usually think of the children’s stories by Lewis Carroll. Namely, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass are two classic works of children’s literature that for over a century have been read by children and adults alike. These two stories tell the tale of a young girl named Alice who finds herself in peculiar surroundings, where she encounters many different and unusual characters. Although Alice is at the center both stories, each tale is uniquely different in its purpose, characters and style. Carroll first published Alice Adventures in Wonderland in 1865, three years after he had first told the story to the young girl Alice Liddell and her sisters, following for a story. The creation of this story began on a river picnic as Carroll began telling the tale of Alice in Wonderland to entertain the girls. Through the Look
was more logical than the first and clearly differed from it in both its style and direction. The introduction of Alice and how she finds herself in the “other” world is very different in each of the stories. In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Alice’s curiosity and boredom leads her to follow the White Rabbit as he rushes passed her. She ends up falling down the rabbit hole which takes both her and the reader into a world of magic and disorder. Carroll’s Wonderland is a place where Alice finds many of the characters difficult and odd. She encounters various characters along her journey, many of whom likely represented real people known to the real Alice Liddell.
Throughout the first story, Alice also finds herself growing and shrinking at various stages, something that Carroll does not repeat in Through the Looking Glass. Alice’s curiosity also leads her into the “other” world in Through
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