It was cold, damp, the smell of old earth, vomit, and other bodily fluids filled the air the further through the corridor you traveled. A single torch was lit by the locked door at the bottom of the stone stair case that seperated the free from the imprisoned. On the other side of the door were rows of stone walled cells. Prisoners never meant to see the light of day again.
"Milady, we can't be down here." The young guardsman's voice was shaking, he was clearly new at this, nervous. He kept looking over his shoulder.
The small woman at his side had a cloak around her shoulders, hood over her head. "I said, open the damn door." She yanked the torch off the metal bracket on the wall.
The young man fumbled woth the key ring and pried the door
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Some were alive. Sort of, if you could call living in your own filt living. This underground prision was virtually hell. The woman was was only glad that these poor people and creatures didn't have to live here long. Her father would kill them all, soon enough.
At the very end of the hall she reached the cage she was in search of, the newest resident of this place. A woman. A wolf.
She placed the torch up in a bracket on the wall and peered through the iron bars that kept the woman in, but chains held her at bay. She was in a pitiful state. It made her heart sink. "I-i'm sorry." She couldn't keep her voice from shaking. Nor the tears gathering in her eyes. No matter how many times she made this trip she always felt the same. And yes she made this visit to all the people down here, they all knew her face.
Pulling back her hood she revealed herself. Alice Rosca, the youngest child and only daughter of the man that imprisoned them all in there. "We aren't all like my father." Her delicate hand grasped the bar as she stepped just a bit closer looking the other woman in the eye. "I'm truly sorry for what he is going to do to
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"Don't tell him anything." She gave the woman a weak smile before flicking up her hood and disappearing down the hall back to where her scared guard was shaking in his armor.
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As the only daughter of the noble Andri Rosca Alice spent most of her days studying. Mathematics, sciences, literature, even the arts. She was more learned than most of his advisers but as a woman she was never allowed in his council. But just because she was not permitted to speak in their company did not mean she did not listen. She knew far more about the war than her father and brothers ever gave her credit for. Alice didn't understand it though, there never seemed to be any real logic behind it... At least not to her. It was going on for generations but she couldn't seem to understand any of it.
So while the sons got to become great hunters, Alice was expected to live like a doll. She had personal guards and escorts because her father was parinod. Then again, all of the good fighters were needed on the fields so most of the time the more rookie fighters were put to guard her and she could easily man handle them, and of course out smart them. It made sneaking out way too
new identity, but all there was for her to find was a great maze not always
She is welcomed back warmly by her family, but finds herself ostracized by the community and has difficulty keeping her resolve to avoid drugs. She soon weakens and, while high, runs away again. She spends time living on the streets, a period during which her diary is not dated and entries were purportedly recorded on scraps of paper or paper napkins. She finds herself having sexual relations with strangers and loses track of everything. When she returns home she vows to stay completely off drugs, and succeeds. However, she is again ostracized by her former friends who continue to label her a police informant, and is ignored by the "square" kids. While babysitting, Alice is drugged without her knowledge.
At the end of the movie, Alice is about to be persecuted by the Queen of Hearts, when she sees herself through the door and tells herself to open her eyes. When she opens her eyes, the characters and her agony vanish. Alice is able to turn on and off her imaginative world, similar to a human controlling an electronic device. Yet Rosaleen’s power is illustrated when she unleashes the wolf inside her. Throughout the story, she lived under her grandmother’s influence.
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.
Thus, Alice in Wonderland is a good illustration of a Hero’s Journey. This story allows us to see how Alice overcomes the three main phases, and most of the stages identified by Campbell in her journey-transformation from an undisciplined child to a wise young adult. Throughout the story, Alice overcomes the nonsense of the young and the old before she truly understands what adulthood is all about. All through her adventures in Wonderland, she encounters numerous new situations and meets different archetypes that are necessary for her to be considered a Hero.
"Why sorry?" he croaked, and she realized that when she did what she had done, he had broken."I put all of my problems on your shoulders. I didn't even ask how you ever felt, I broke you. I forgot that I was all you had and yet I knotted the rope and I kicked away that chair; I left you here in this cruel, cruel world that I knew you feared."
The Creature That Opened My Eyes Sympathy, anger, hate, and empathy, these are just a few of the emotions that came over me while getting to know and trying to understand the creature created by victor frankenstein in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. For the first time I became completely enthralled in a novel and learned to appreciate literature not only for the great stories they tell but also for the affect it could have on someones life as cliché as that might sound, if that weren’t enough it also gave me a greater appreciation and understanding of the idiom “never judge a book by its cover.” As a pimply faced, insecure, loner, and at most times self absorbed sophomore in high school I was never one to put anytime or focus when it came time
Due to Alice’s positive perspective of her mentor, she is able to grow from her journey through Wonderland and ultimately find herself by facing the obstacles she once ran away from. In the beginning of the film, we are presented to a very insecure Alice, “unsure of herself, unsure of her future, unsure of anything in that moment” who
Broken, obedient and struggling to accept her new life, “Alice” has been living with her kidnapper, who goes by the name Ray, ever since she was 10 years old after he had kidnapped her while she was on a school field trip to the aquarium. It is not long before she eventually realizes that
When we see things in her point of view, we see how strong she can be. She is sold by her mother and towards the end we are told she still misses her regardless of it. She is the one that knows how to survive in the wood, by finding food and building shelter. She nurses Wolfred back to health. She then takes on the journey to go to a boarding school by herself to gain an education.
she always used to wish for a way to escape her life. She saw memories
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 up.
With that knowledge, throughout the book, Alice continues to say that she is only a child and is too young to grow up. The reader can see some ...
It was a small dark room, more like a makeshift kind in the middle of the forest, which was under attack. No windows existed and there was just one small entrance. A burly man had entered the bunk around two hours later than the prisoner had been brought in.
She had to learn the rules and the consequences for not learning them. For example, the Caucus race to the strange croquet game with the queen and to the fact that the royal court is a living deck of cards and death is the consequence of not learning to play by the queen’s rules. Language and logic are also very important themes used to point out confusion and madness. Every creature that was introduced can justify the most absurd behavior, and their arguments told are very complex themselves. The strange reasoning behind it all is also another delight for the reader and challenge for Alice.