Alice In Wonderland

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Alice In Wonderland

• By Ms. Alicia Johnson

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Lewis Carroll 1832-1898

• Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
• Author, mathematician, logician, Anglican
  Clergyman, photographer
• Alices Adventures in Wonderland and Through
  the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There
• Possible drug use and pedophilia

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The Real Alice

• Alice Liddell (May 4th 1853-November 15 1934)
• Carroll dedicated his Alice in Wonderland books
  to Alice Liddell.
• Carroll was cut off from the Liddell family when
  Alice was 11.
• The Cut Pages Diary

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Carrolls Works

• Alices Adventures in Wonderland 1865
• Through the Looking Glass1871

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Logic, Reversed

• Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you
  can do, to keep in the same place. Red Queen
• "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in
  rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I
  choose it to mean--neither more nor less."
• "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was
  so, it might be and if it were so, it would be
  but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."

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The Cheshire Cat as a Voice of Reason

• "But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice
  remarked."Oh, you can't help that," said the
  Cat "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're
  mad.""How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice."You
  must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have
  come here."
• "Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to
  go from here?"
• "That depends a good deal on where you want to
  get to," said the Cat.
• "I don't much care where --" said Alice.
• "Then it doesn't much matter which way you go,"
  said the Cat.
• "--- so long as I get somewhere," Alice added as
  an explanation.
• "Oh, you're sure to do that," said the Cat, "if
  only you walk long enough."

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Alices Influence

• Alices Adventures in Wonderland has been made
  into many motion pictures.
• Walt Disneys Alice in Wonderland
• William Sterlings Alices Adventures in
  Wonderland (1972)
• Hallmarks Alice in Wonderland (1999)

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Alices Influence

• The movie The Matrix(1999) alludes to Alices
  Adventures in Wonderland several times.
• "I imagine right now you're feeling a bit like
  Alice, tumbling down the rabbit hole?
• "You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland,
  and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
• Follow the White Rabbit

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More of Alices Influence

• Alice in Wonderland Syndrome
• The Mad Hatter has been a recurring villain in
  the Batman comics since 1948
• The movie Resident Evil(2002) also shows
  several references to the story
• Heroin named Alice
• T-Virus tested on a white rabbit
• A mirror is the door to the underground train
  station
• The villain is a holographic entity controlled
  by a computer called The Red Queen
• The fifth episode of Lost was entitled The
  White Rabbit
• The Super Mushroom Power-up used to change the
  size of Mario