Name: Neha Nepal

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Discussion paper 1: Alice in wonderland

Answer 1
Mad hatter is a frictional character from Alice in wonderland. In the book, mad
hatter tells alice about how the red queen of hearts sentenced him and the march
hare to death for singing to her, she considered it as “murdering the time.” Since
then, they are having the tea party together, very weird reason to start the tea
party. Indeed, the whole section of mad hatter and the tea party is nothing but
weird in the book. The conversations they were having didnot make sense, he was
making personal offensive remarks, asking nonsense riddles, reciting weird poems
and changing places at the table at any given time, this drove Alice away from the
had hatter. Unlike the mad hatter in the book, the mad hater in the movie was
very helpful, charming and kind. He also helped Alice fulfill her destiny, he risked
his own life to save hers at various occasions, he helped her escape the royal
solders. Alice had stated to have feeling for this man and vise versa by the end of
the movie.
Answer 2
In the book, alice is a 7 year old innocent child. She doesnot know much of what is
happening and how to tackle those. She looks very vunreable and is found crying
in multiple scenes. In the movie, alice is a young girl from the Victorian times. She
is found to be different from the other girls as she is scolded by her mother to not
behaving as other girls. As the movie progresses the confidence inside the girl
multiplies. She grows into a woman with strong willpower and to a independent
woman who chooses her own paths and makes her own decision. Very different
to other woman found in that generation.
Answer 3
In the book, alice was sitting with her sister, trying to to see what her sister was
reading as it did not interest her she started to wonder whether making a daisy
chain would be any interesting. Just then she sees a rabbit and follows it and the
rabbit leads her to a hole from which she falls into a very deep hole very slowly.
While escaping the red queen she finds a tree with a door and that leads her to
the reality, just after escaping the dream like situation she explains what
happened to her sister and later her sister is found to go through the same
situaton as alice.
In the movie, alice keeps having the same dream that she believes she is going
mad. While alice runs away from Hamish as she does not want to be married to
him, she sees the same rabbit again. She follows the rabbit and falls in a whole
that leads her to wonderland. While returning, she fullfils her destiny by fighting
the jabberwocky and returns the sword to the rightful queen. The queen gives her
blood of jabberwocky and she gets a wish. From that she wishes to get back to
the real world.
Answer 4
The language and intensity of the movie is mild. The cinema is colorful and the
animation is kid-friendly. In the movie we witness scenes that are meant to be
funny for children. The type of scenes when the red queen becomes furious when
the cat pulls her skirt is something the kids will enjoy. Some scenes do not make
sense for adults but kids will love and think they are funny and entertaining.
Overall, it is an amazing movie that kids should watch which is very different form
any other Disney fairytale of those times. For these reasons I would like to safely
say that the story line is “ahead of its time.”