Through the Looking-Glass

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  • Through the Looking Glass
    • Exploration
      • Alice explores a new place- however not exploring a real place- safer to imagine a place away from real-life
    • Identity
      • Alice is exploring who she is as a person- a young child growing up
      • The Red Queen- rude and cunning. The White Queen- good natured. Identity is dependent on how you act as a person
    • Language and Communication
      • The writing in the new world is backwards, the way the Jabberwocky is written means that Alice has to take on a new reading style- for the reflective nature of the created world.
    • Youth
      • The whole story is based on a young girl who is naive to the real world problems going on around her
      • Alice sees the good and innocence in people
    • Education
      • Alice is learning what is right and wrong. Also about how not everyone can be trusted
      • Each character is reflective of the issues that can faced in adult life
    • Childhood
      • Alice lives an isolated childhood, she is left on her own with the cats hence why she dreams up a world where she is surrounded by different poeple- yurning to escape from the company of herself
    • Surrealism
      • The world she is in isn't real- there are things that happen that shouldn't be there
    • Dreams
      • Linking to the idea that Alice dreams up this imaginery place in order to escape reality and isolation
    • Chess Game
      • All the individual peices get played in order to advance further, they all have an individual goal- relating to challenges and goals in life that Alice is yet to experience
        • The 'Monarch' positions deem themselves higher than other hcaracters- even higher than Alice because they are the highest in society and everyone else is made to serve them- link to the Chess Game
    • Captilaism and Class
      • Alice belives that she is better than some characters because she comes from a rich background
      • The 'Monarch' positions deem themselves higher than other hcaracters- even higher than Alice because they are the highest in society and everyone else is made to serve them- link to the Chess Game

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