Alice in wonderland
Mar 16th, 2008 by marjo
I’m the kind of person whose attention often focuses on a line, word or drawing that most of the time has nothing to do with what I am reading. Last Monday (the 10th of March), we read in class an article written by our teacher entitled “mind your own language”. In the first paragraph, she quoted Lewis Carol’s Alice in wonderland:
“Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves”
If Alice in wonderland is one of her references, maybe it is worth re-reading the story but this time the original uncut version! I’ve found on internet tones of things about that story and thought that sharing a few things would be interesting.
First of all, if you have time, I’d like you to sit down in a comfortable chair, relax and listen or read (or better, both) to the chapter from which the famous line above was taken.
Download alice in wonderland: chap 9
read Alice in wonderland: chap 9
The story can be seen as a bed time story or a piece of literature called literary nonsense. It was written for last century British readers and because of that, it is difficult to fully appreciate the story without some historical background. This reminds me of a reason why I chose to study science and not literature! (A good teacher of literature makes the book that he is teaching interesting to read and study…and sometimes teachers are boring).
It seems that many people think that this story has hidden meanings like drug consumption and sexual speculations…NO!! Our Alice promoting drugs and sex!! Where is my childhood going!!!
It is true that if you go through chap 5 where there is a blue caterpillar smoking you may ask yourself a lot of questions. And then there is the mushroom that she eats making her shrink and the biscuits and the drink that has strange effects on her…
Ok! All of these things put together may lead us to the conclusion that this novel should not be put in all hands. We will never know since the author died a hundred years ago. Maybe we are just having as much imagination as Lewis Carol did…
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