A highly esteemed childhood development philosopher, Erik Erikson believed that the personality of a child develops in a series of stages, and in each stage children experienced crucial events that affected ones development. These events either impacted that child’s development in a good or poor way. Relationships are pivotal in all of Erikson’s stages as it can start to form ones personality, which helps one grow in the future. In Erik Erikson’s fourth stage, competence, children develop self-confidence by interacting with peers and people. Likewise, Alice undergoes this stage in Through the Looking Glass. Alice develops these skills as she socializes with the many characters in the story, leading her and giving her lessons to help her on …show more content…
This concept becomes apparent as the Red Queen tells an important message to Alice saying, “At the next peg the Queen turned again, and this time she said "Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing--turn out your toes as you walk--and remember who you are!" (176.) The Red Queen is helping Alice understand the game they are currently in and making sure she comprehends all the steps she has to go through to become a queen in the end. This multiple meaning quote that the Red Queen just stated means to keep hold of ones (Alice’s) identity and just helpful in the game of chess. As the Red Queen states “speak in French when you can’t think of the English for a thing” she is assisting Alice through the many steps of the game as well, especially through the forest which she forgets her name and everything of sorts. The Red Queen is the archetype of the Oracle, the all-knowing mentor who helps the innocent child on their way, exactly how she is helping Alice now. When she says “and remember who you are!” the Red Queen is making sure Alice continues to recognize herself and to stay firm to who she is what and what she believes. As she goes through the story, her identity is challenged, but stays true to herself. The Red Queen is also warning Alice metaphorically, against all these many influences that may cross her path. In addition …show more content…
Alice is dumbfounded by how old the White queen is and does not quite believe it as Alice says, "There's no use trying," she said: "one can't believe impossible things." "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast” (207.) The White Queen is giving Alice another lesson on her journey to the eight square. The White Queen is know as the friendlier queen and truly helps Alice as she finds her way. As Alice states, “one can’t believe impossible things” she is expressing her grownup side. Many believe that once one reaches a certain age, imagination seems to be extinct in an adult brain. Though Alice is only seven and a half it seems she is also thinking like an adult. Then as the White Queen responds, “I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” The White Queen is trying to show that children should dream and do impossible things everyday. Believing the impossible is a right for all children since they do not have any obligations or rules to follow yet. They can be free with their minds and be as imaginative as they possibly can. The White Queen is attempting to explain to Alice that she should be thinking impossible things more, and should not be thinking so hard about
In Frank Beddors, “The Looking Glass Wars” a lot of things happen that are bad. There are lots of good things too. The story is about the “Myth” of Alice Liddell stepping through a looking glass into Wonderland. The topic of this essay is the Truth of the story. The purpose of this paper is how Loyal or devoted some people are to white imagination
Alice has many arguments because many of the creatures in Wonderland think of her as silly. She has to stand up for herself which helps her to mature and progress through Wonderland. When she stands up for herself against someone who is really important like the Queen of Hearts, she awakens back into the real world. This represents that she has overcome her challenge.
Alice’s failure to understand the “native” culture, and her insistence on imposing her own norms and values ultimately culminates in a life-threatening situation.” (Binova “Underground Alice:” the politics of wonderland). Alice is the colonised in the situation with the Queen of Hearts. When she is introduced to the Queen her evil nature is revealed as she orders “Off with her head!” (Carroll 96). However, she is contrasted to Alice’s good nature while she shouts “Nonsense!” ( Carrol 96). The theme of chaos and confusion is brought forward as they play croquet all at once with noises all around and even in the court where everyone is expected to be civil. Although the Queen, as a character reinforces adulthood, subversion emerges again by Alice standing up for herself at this time. Nearing the end of her dream, she stands up against the Queen at court but it dream ends without a resolution. Maria Lassen-Seger says in ( “Subversion of Authority”: In “Alice’s Adventures of Wonderland”), “the relationship between the child and the adult is an impossible power relation in which the child is marginalised and considered powerless, thus, the adults suggest in their books what a child ought to be, what values and images it should accept.” The Queen at this point in the dream would have been the
When Alice enters Wonderland, everything she knows (or rather she thinks she knows) is completely turned upside down. As a result, when Alice is first confronted with the nonsensical ways of this dream world, she loses her sense of identity as she continually asks herself, “Who in the world am I?” (18). However, in confronting and challenging the adults in Wonderland she is
Berger, K. S. (2012). The developing person: through childhood and adolescence. (9th ed.). New York, NY: Worth Publishers.
“The most logical thing a solider escapes from is danger, death, the enemy.” Everyone goes through a point in their life where they go to war with themselves. When you are the solider and the enemy you cannot escape from yourself, but you can go for the wrong enemy; such as Gene does. Gene admires and resents his best friend, Phineas, but his resentment takes over and causes him to commit terrible actions towards Phineas.
As the child matures during the first two years of life, he or she creates a specific internal working model (BOOK). The working model of self is founded on the expectations the child develops based on experiences with the mother (BOOK). According to Bowlby (1979, p. 117), "the conce...
While it may seem that society’s restrictions continually halt the way one progresses in life, the ability to defy the odds and overcome them truly defines a person’s courage. This fact is evident in the novel, All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr, where an orphan named Werner is continuously forced to participate in cruel Nazi practices because his enrollment in the Hitler Youth is the only way he is able to get the proper education to become an engineer. Similarly, in Keeping the Faith, directed by Edward Norton, a local rabbi named Jake is restricted from publically dating his childhood best friend, Anna because of the fact that she is not Jewish. First off, characters originally alter their views and behaviour due to their circumstances,
Exile is both an enriching experience and unmendable gap in life. Although exile is one word, there are many different ways to interpret it. In the novel, State of Wonder, Ann Patchett illustrates this arduous experience through Marina. Through her exile, Marina confronts the treacherous Amazon however, it ultimately led to an unexpected enlightenment in her life. Marina contemplated the right from wrong as well as the importance of the real truth. All of these experiences and emotions that were pulsing through her body ultimately revealed the contrasting worlds of morals and temptations that could lead to abandonment.
“Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise” (Carroll 105). This and advice of this kind are often dispensed by the Duchess in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to Alice, and like the transition from child to adult, the advice is generally rarely fully understood if not confusingly difficult to wrap logic around. Many illustrators have undertaken the task of conveying a clear picture of the struggle that Alice goes through in order to triumph over childhood and nonsense into the realm of adults and logic. Angel Dominguez shows Alice’s struggle to grow up and out of childhood, a major theme of the text, in such a way that the audience can almost feel her anxiety. The use of the body language of Alice, the Duchess and the supporting animals, in addition to compositional elements such as proximity and framing, is a principal mechanism of Dominguez in evoking Alice’s anxiety and emphasizing the uncomfortable passage into maturity on one’s own while dealing with the pressures and advances of an adult world.
In the end there are many situations where Alice feels that she is different from everyone else around her. Alice realized that she was always different but more so when she was with these three characters who are the Mad Hatter, the caterpillar and the pigeon, and lastly being the Queen of Hearts. When she met the Mad Hatter is more so when she started to realize that she was different from everyone else in Wonderland. Throughout the book Alice just kept finding out how different she really was. Then she met the caterpillar and the pigeon who both made her question who and what she is. Then lastly she met the Queen of Hearts and really found out how different she was from everyone that was surrounding her in Wonderland. To conclude these were just a few examples where Alice felt like she was different from everyone else.
Lewis Carroll demonstrates paradoxes within Alice and Wonderland as Alice is tossed within an entirely different world. Yet one of the greatest paradoxes is the transformation of Alice over the course of the novel as well as the transformation of the duchess. Alice begins as an ignorant child; she has difficulties in morphing to the logic and needs of Wonder...
In the opening scene, Alice desires something beyond orthodox. This is showed by her lack of interest in her studies and longing for a world in which everything would be “nonsense.” She is a curious child. Deborah Ross argues that Alice expresses the usual idealistic desires: “to escape boredom (with lessons), to satisfy curiosity (about the white rabbit), and above all, to exert power” (Ross 57). However Alice does not know exerting power is difficult when the world is consumed of “nonsense”. Thus she has different qualities that contributes to her vague identity. She believes life would be different in her world. Also Disney strives to reveal Alice’s incentive of Wonderland by introducing pictorial wonders such as singing flowers and surrealistic insect, making it seem as a dream. The movie progresses in the same route as Lewis Carroll’s book by focusing on her immature thinking of Wonderland.
St. Augustine once said, “Wrong is wrong, even if everyone is doing it. Right is right, even if no one is doing it,” summarizing morality and integrity at its core. Ruta Sepetys, the author of the novel, Between Shades of Gray, coveys the importance of morality and integrity through one character in particular. Sepetys effectively edifies Elena Vilkas as a moral compass who’s integrity influences everyone she encounters for the greater good and with hope for survival. Elena’s unbreakable morality is evident amongst her ever-changing community. Her virtues are also deeply displayed within her family as they journey through their fate.
The child has a hard time realizing that though there are many other people and things in their world, none of them are more important than the child himself. The child believes that his point of view is the only point of view of the world. This is caused by his inability to put himself in someone’s else’s shoes (Smith). The concrete operational period, spanning between the ages of 7 and 11, is marked by the onset of logic in the young mind. The child is able to mentally manipulate objects and events.