1865, Alice in Wonderland was published, which was a great success. At the same time, it is of epoch-making significance in the history of British children's literature. The Encyclopedia Britannica holds that Carol's fairy tales and A History of Harmonious Style have elevated the so-called absurd literature to the highest level.

Alice in Wonderland is not only read by children, but also regarded as a classic by many adults, including the famous writer Oscar Wilde and the then ruling Queen Victoria. This book has been translated into at least 125 languages and reprinted more than 300 times in the middle of the 20th century. Its popularity is second only to the Bible and Satubia's works. Carol used to be a math teacher, and now she has become a world-famous fairy tale master.

Wiener, the British mathematician and founder of cybernetics, quoted Alice's adventures many times in his masterpieces Cybernetics and Man's Use, and compared them with the regular objective world. In the book Logic of Mathematicians, the mathematical logician Belloron quoted the original text of Alice in Wonderland. This shows the value and influence of this fairy tale masterpiece.

His works had a great influence on later literary and film creation, especially in the19th century, imitations emerged one after another. Interestingly, even Shen Congwen's Travel Notes of Alice China is a sequel to Alice to reflect the darkness of society at that time. In the movie "The Matrix", the protagonist Neo was even warned to "pay close attention to the White Rabbit Cave".

Introduction: Alice in Wonderland is a children's literature work published by British writer Charles Ludwig Dodgson under the pseudonym lewis carroll on 1865. The story tells that a girl named Alice entered a magical country from the rabbit hole, met many talking creatures and playing cards like people, and finally found that it was a dream.

Since the publication of 1865, this fairy tale has been deeply loved by readers of different ages, which is believed to be due to the author's clever use of illogical jumping methods to lay out the story. Alice in Wonderland has been translated into at least 125 languages and reprinted more than 300 times in the mid-20th century. Its popularity is second only to the Bible and Shakespeare's works.

title of a book

[Movie] Alice in Wonderland

Tomomi

Alice in Wonderland/Alice in Wonderland/Alice in Wonderland

author

Lewis carroll (lewis carroll)

Original name

Alice in Wonderland/Alice in Wonderland

translator

Zhao Yuanren (first translated into Chinese)

kind

lie

press

Macmillan publishing house

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John Tenniel.

language

English

Publishing area

Britain, England

First edition time

1865165438+1October 26th

Number of words in the first edition

15500

main content

Alice in Wonderland tells the story of a little girl Alice chasing a talking girl with a pocket watch.

Alice is surrounded by the characters in the story.

The white rabbit fell into the rabbit hole, thus falling into the magical underground world. In this world, a sip of water can shrink to the size of a mouse, and eating a cake can turn you into a giant. Eating the same mushroom on the right will make you shorter, and eating it on the left will make you taller. Dogs will roar and wag their tails when they lose their temper, while cats will roar and wag their tails because they are happy. In this world, everything seems strange.

She also met many people and animals: Dodo, Lizard Bill, Cheshire cat, Mad Hatter, March Rabbit, Dormouse, Mock Turtle, Gryphon and Ugly Duchess. In the big garden behind the small door, she met a whole deck of playing cards, including the rude queen of hearts, the kind king of hearts and the swaggering Jack of hearts. Alice helped the rabbit find the lost fan and gloves. Later, she helped three gardeners escape the persecution of the Red Queen. She also protested loudly in the absurd court that the king and queen framed good people. In this fantastic and crazy world, it seems that only Alice is the only sober person. She kept exploring and asked "Who am I?". In the process of exploration, she keeps learning about herself and growing. When she finally grew into a "big" girl, she suddenly woke up and found that all this was a dream of her own. [

Role introduction editor

Alice

The protagonist of the novel is based on the 7-year-old daughter of the author's neighbor. She is kind, honest, helpful and compassionate, and these beautiful qualities are shown in her through bizarre adventures. At the same time, she also has the common shortcomings of a 7-year-old girl: she loves to cry and is brave, and these characteristics are also revealed one by one with the advancement of the plot.

Red Queen

The Queen of Hearts is domineering and cruel, clamoring for beheading all day, and likes the underground world under her cruel rule. Later scholars thought that she might symbolize Queen Victoria or Queen Margaret at that time.

Mr. rabbit

Mr. White Rabbit is responsible for finding Alice and taking her back to the underground world to complete the task. In the first chapter, wearing a suit and hat, he shouted, "I'm late!" I'm late! " Try to lure Alice into the rabbit hole. He appeared at Alice's garden party as a waiter for the Red Queen. His character is completely opposite to Alice's, sophisticated and timid, and he is a slave to the king and queen.

Cheshire cat

Cheshire cat is a short-haired cat that can appear or disappear at any time. He always wears a calm and charming smile to hide his timid personality. At first, Cheshire cat played a trick on Alice in Wonderland because she knew the wrong way. Later, at the Queen's tea party, he played tricks on the Red Queen and her executioner to help Alice. He is eccentric, but he is kind and upright at heart.

Creation background

Carol, the author of Alice in Wonderland, was imaginative and introverted since she was a child and never married, but she loved children very much and often played games with them. 1862 One day in the summer, Carol was boating on the Thames with her neighbor's three daughters. While having a tea break on the river bank, he made up a fairyland story for the children. The protagonist is based on Alice, the cleverest and cutest seven-year-old girl among the sisters. After returning home, Carol wrote the story at Alice's request, drew her own illustrations and gave them to little Alice. It wasn't long before the novelist Henry Kingsley discovered the manuscript, which was amazing. With his encouragement, Carol further perfected it. Alice in Wonderland was published in Japan in June, 1865. 187 1 year, Carol published Alice's Travel Notes in Love, a companion piece of this fairy tale.

works appreciation

Character appreciation

Alice in Dabu's fairy tale is a striking and unusual fairy tale character: this seven-year-old girl, with shoulder-length blonde hair, is naive and lively, full of curiosity and thirst for knowledge, honest and compassionate. She helped the rabbit find the lost fan and gloves. She hid three gardeners who would be beheaded by the queen. She also protested loudly in the absurd court that the king and queen framed good people. She is full of the spirit of democracy, justice and humanity.

At the same time, the author also described all the characteristics of being a seven-year-old girl. For example, she loves to cry, and she is aggressive and boastful. She likes to show off what she has learned from it, but sometimes she makes mistakes: she doesn't want to sit still in class and often looks forward to jumping from eight in the morning to lunch. These are vivid and true psychological reflections of children, which makes Alice's image more cordial and lovely.

Means of artistic expression

Although this fairy tale is full of absurd fantasies, the author deeply hints at the social reality of Britain in the middle of19th century. From what Alice has seen and heard, we can feel that this era is full of etiquette and pedantic life breath, such as the little hero's fear of constantly reciting the text, like a mouse bent on showing off its historical knowledge. It turns out that it can only recite textbooks for a long time and doesn't even understand itself. These plots make readers feel that the education methods at that time were rigid and outdated. In fairy tales, Carol also satirized the rabbit, the snobbish duchess, the arrogant red queen and so on, and even mocked the Victorian court. All these make readers see seriousness from jokes and realize rationality from absurdity.

Carol's fairy tales generally do not describe punishing evil and promoting good, but reveal to readers the complexity and diversity of world things and the relativity of various concepts. For example, if Alice eats the same piece of mushroom, its right side will become shorter and its left side will become higher. That's how things change. In the rabbit hole, Alice couldn't reach the key on the table when she was a child, but suddenly she grew taller. The spacious house couldn't hold her body, so she had to put one arm out of the window and one foot into the chimney. It can be seen that big and small are relative concepts, and it is meaningful to compare them. For example, the cat told Alice that dogs would growl and wag their tails when they lost their temper, while cats would growl and wag their tails because they were happy. The same action can show the completely opposite connotation, and how to judge the right or wrong? This kind of "interest" can be seen everywhere in Alice in Wonderland. The author of the preface to the original English version of this fairy tale called Carol a "genius philosopher".

language feature

The artistic charm of Alice in Wonderland lies in its British humor. The author narrates and describes in a relaxed and harmonious style, full of all kinds of jokes, silly words, one-liners or puns, all of which contain profound meanings. For example, the Red Queen ordered the executioner to cut off Cheshire cat's head, and this strange cat, which could slowly disappear, just disappeared. Leaving only a grinning cat's head hanging on the treetop, the executioner suddenly became blindsided: beheading is to separate the head from the body, but where can this head without a body be beheaded? This wonderful art of humor has always been praised by people, with endless aftertaste. Today, modern English dictionaries also accept "Cheshire cat" as a proper noun, meaning "grin". In addition, Carol is good at integrating all kinds of knowledge and logic into jokes, humorous word games and puns, which makes this fairy tale full of humor and shines with wisdom.