While Alice ventured through Wonderland, she could not possibly fathom what was happening, but as she enter the Looking-Glass she knew it was only just a dream. As Alice entered the reversible world known as the Looking-Glass, every person who began entering this mystical dream has shown representation of characters shown in a chess game. In a normal game of chess the pawns are the only pieces that cannot go back once they have moved, but once they have reached the other side, they become crowned as a queen. Alice knew from the beginning that she did not have the power to become a queen from the start, but she continued to push herself to reach her final goal. All of the characters shown in Through the Looking-Glass, has represented numerous …show more content…
One character that is represented as a piece in a chess game is Alice. Alice is known for being a white pawn during the game of chess but says, “How I wish I was one of them! I wouldn't mind being a Pawn, if only I might join- though of course I should like to be a Queen, best.” (Carroll 133). Alice knew that she had to start out as a pawn so that she could make it to the end of a checkerboard to become a Queen. Alice knew this was not going to be easy, and that she would have to work twice as hard to eventually make it to the eight square on the white side. As Alice traveled through the Looking-Glass, making it over barriers and streams, this symbolizes Alice making moves on the chessboard. In chapter nine, “Queen Alice”, Alice had finally promoted from a White Pawn into a White Queen (211). Alice does not stop here, she was determined to win the game and later captures the Red Queen and checkmates the Red King making an end to the game. When Alice made the move winning the game, this symbolized Alice waking up and later coming to the realization that her white kitten was the White Queen in her dream. Even though Alice’s adventure Through the Looking- Glass had its up and downs, she was very proud that she controlled her own dream and reached her goal of getting possession of the gold
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
In The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor, the sweet nonsensical story of Alice in Wonderland is retold in an interestingly strange way that includes everything from war and rebellion, to love. Towards the beginning of the story Alyss is forced to leave Wonderland after having her castle ambushed by her evil Aunt Redd. Hatter Madigan, her mother’s trusted bodyguard, is told by Queen Genevieve herself to look after the young princess but is separated from her when they enter the Pool of Tears. He eventually finds her in england where she had been staying for the duration of her time on Earth, and takes her back to wonderland where she reclaims her throne. By altering this story, Bedder adds a more significant twist to what was a children’s book, creating many meaningful themes to go along with his version that develop throughout the novel. One example is taking responsibility, which is evident in many of the actions involving the characters Hatter Madigan, Alyss Heart, and Dodge Anders.
The story of Jeannette Walls and her dysfunctional family gives insights of hope and growth. To get these points across, author, Jeannette Walls wrote her autobiography using many different literary devices to tell the story of her childhood. She used themes that were apparent her whole childhood. She used symbolism to say the things that needed to be said in a discrete way. And her similes gave her audience insight to the people around her. Devices like symbolism, similes and theme have been used in all great literature to convey information, as well as in this story in a refreshing, thought-provoking way.
the importance of those things. But, it can be a crucial symbol for someone’s life. That is the impact of symbolism in one’s life. In the book The Glass Castle, written by Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle has a significant importance in her life. The Glass castle represents the status of the Walls family, the hope and faith for the future, and even life in general. In the story, The Glass Castle is used as the end goal of the Walls Family’s adventure of life. Furthermore, the Glass Castle supports Walls’ purpose of the hardships in life.
The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor was a book that took a different angle at the classic story of Alice in Wonderland. The book was not just a lighthearted, wacky story about an English girl that stumbles down a rabbit hole and ends up in a world with talking caterpillars known as Wonderland. She is Wonderland’s heir to the throne and her mother, Genevieve, is the queen. Genevieve’s sister, Redd, is bent on revenge after being kicked out of the castle. She storms the castle and forcefully takes the throne, and Alyss is sent into another world and tries to find her way back to Wonderland to take back the throne. In order to do this, she has to gain a lot of responsibility starting from her childhood in Wonderland, teenage years in England,
In the 20th century the social psychologist Charles H. Cooley developed this idea of a looking glass. Basically, this idea of a looking-glass is that people derive value from what others think instead of what you think about yourself. The three fundamental points of this idea are: how one’s image appears to others, how one imagines the judgment of appearances, and how one develops the “self” through the other’s judgments. Mai-Anh Tran’s decision to undergo cosmetic surgery may have been her own decision, but it was guided by how others viewed her.
What makes us human is the ability to recognize the good in other people and in turn recognize the good in ourselves. There is a saying that whatever you think about another person is just a reflection of what you think about yourself; it is like looking into a mirror. Paintings can act like mirrors as well; we can gaze into a painting and see the good of the subject being portrayed and in turn we can identify the same attributes within ourselves allowing us to relate to the subject matter. Both Rembrandt and Vermeer were able to capture intersubjectivity in their paintings. In The Return of the Prodigal Son (Fig. 1) and Aristotle (Fig. 2) by Rembrandt and The Milk Maid (Fig. 3) and Woman Weighing Pearls (Fig. 4) by Vermeer there is an autonomy that can be recognized in the painting as well as within us.
Fire. Neglect. Sexual Molestation. No one child should have to face what Jeannette Walls had to endure as a young child. However, Walls clearly shows this chaos and the dysfunctional issues that she had to overcome while she was growing up. Within her memoir, The Glass Castle, Walls incorporates little things that were important in her life in order to help the reader understand her story even more. These little things amount to important symbolisms and metaphors that help to give the story a deeper meaning and to truly understand Jeannette and her family’s life.
In Zora Neale Hurston’s novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, she utilizes an array of symbolism such as color, the store, and her husbands to solidify the overall theme of independence and individuality. Their Eyes Were Watching God is considered by many a classic American Feminist piece that emphasizes how life was for African Americans post slave era in the early 1900s. One source summarizes the story as, 1 ”a woman's quest for fulfillment and liberation in a society where women are objects to be used for physical work and pleasure.” Which is why the overall theme is concurrent to independence and self.
Tennessee Williams’ play, “The Glass Menagerie”, depicts the life of an odd yet intriguing character: Laura. Because she is affected by a slight disability in her leg, she lacks the confidence as well as the desire to socialize with people outside her family. Refusing to be constrained to reality, she often escapes to her own world, which consists of her records and collection of glass animals. This glass menagerie holds a great deal of significance throughout the play (as the title implies) and is representative of several different aspects of Laura’s personality. Because the glass menagerie symbolizes more than one feature, its imagery can be considered both consistent and fluctuating.
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.
Nevertheless, when her name is called as a witness in chapter 12, Alice replies “HERE!” without any signs of hesitation (Carroll 103). A close examination of the plot in Alice in Wonderland reveals that experiential learning involving sizes leads Alice to think logically and rationally. Alice then attempts to explore Wonderland analytically and becomes more independent of the outcome. With these qualities, Alice resolves her identity crisis by recognizing Wonderland is nothing but a dream created by her mind.
Vallone, Lynne. Notes. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. By Lewis Carroll. New York: The Modern Library Classics, 2002.245-252. Print.
Carroll is unwilling to accept the fact that Alice is growing up and that their friendship is coming to an end. In Alice in Wonderland, Alice is portrayed as a child in need of help, much like how Alice needed Carroll. However in Through the Looking Glass, Alice is portrayed as older and independent. This is because Carroll sees Alice as years older than when he first wrote about her, despite her only being six months older in the book. Carroll in reminiscing on the way Alice used to spend time with him and he misses that friendship. His dependency on Alice is shown at the end of the White Knight’s scene through the White Knight’s insistence that she sees him off. The White Knight bringing Alice to the final brook to become a queen is Carroll’s way of showing that he needs to let Alice go in order for her to grow
Symbolism is an integral part of every play. The author uses symbolism in order to add more depth to the play. In Tennessee Williams’ play, The Glass Menagerie, he describes three separate characters, their dreams, and the harsh realities they face in a modern world. The Glass Menagerie exposes the lost dreams of a southern family and their desperate struggle to escape reality. Everyone in the play seeks refuge from their lives, attempting to escape into an imaginary world. Williams uses the fire escape as a way for the Wingfields, the protagonists of the play, to escape their real life and live an illusionary life. The fire escape portrays each of the character's need to use the fire escape as a literal exit from their own reality.