Differences Between Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Lo

At the mention of the name Alice, one tends to usually think of the childrens stories by Lewis Carroll. Namely, Alices Adventures in Wonderland and by means of the Looking Glass are two classic works of childrens literature that for over a ampere-second 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 centre of both stories, each tale is uniquely different in its purpose, characters and style. Carroll first promulgated Alices Adventures in Wonderland in 1865, three years afterward he had first told the story to the young girl Alice Liddell and her sisters, following her request for a story full of nonsense. The creation of this story began on a river outing as Carroll began telling the tale of Alice in Wonderland to entertain the girls. Unlike the spontaneity in the creation of the first story, Ca rrolls Through the Looking Glass was published six years after the first, when Alice was a teenager. This latter story 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 Alices Adventures in Wonderland, Alices curiosity and boredom leads her to follow the White das 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. Carrolls Wonderland is a distinguish 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 knowledge and shrinking at various stages, something that Carroll does not repeat in Through the Looking Glass. Alices curiosity also leads her into the other world in Through the Looking Glass. Unlike Carrolls first story, this world is one that is logical and in that loses some of its magic. As Alice enters through the glass mirror, her surroundings become converse and Carroll repeats this image of reversal throughout the story in the poem of the Jabberwocky, the mirror images of Tweedledee and Tweedledum, as well as when the White... ...e is shaking her cat. Carroll ends the story with a question to the reader- who had rightfully dreamed the dream, Alice or the Red King? This ending is open to the reader to conclude.There exists several differences between Alices Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. These differences whitethorn be due to the disparity in time between the writing of both stories and the circumstances that surrounded Carrolls writing, as well as the innovation that Carroll possessed when he began to tell the tale. However, these differences are essential to the distinctive nature of each stor y and convey to the reader a different portrayal of the lieu that Carroll had of the relationship between child and adult. Whether it was the difference between characters in the stories, or the style in which the story was written, they play an important role in the development of Alice and in the depiction that Carroll intended. Works CitedCarroll, Lewis. Alices Adventures in Wonderland. Illus. Arthur Rackham. Poem by Austin Dobson. New York Sea Star Books, 2002.Carroll, Lewis. Through the Looking Glass. From Project Gutenberg. http//www.gutenberg.net Etext91/glass18.txt