Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol is the focus of this paper consisting of five pages in which Wonderland is contrasted and compared with Neverland. Four sources are cited in the bibliography.
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They are political and social commentaries, as well as stories which simply amaze the senses. One of the ways in which the stories amaze the senses is through the use
of an imaginary land that is full of color and possibilities. In the following paper we examine Wonderland and Neverland, first individually, and then comparing and contrasting them.
Wonderland Wonderland is a world that is completely different and unexpected. We are first introduced to this upside down world through a rabbit who wears a waistcoat and carries a
watch, and talks. Alice follows him, curiously. She falls into a world through the rabbit hole that is like nothing she has seen before. She becomes small, becomes large, is
trapped in a house that is the same size as her, and takes a pill to put her back to a normal size. This is clearly a land that
is like nothing one has ever seen. She comes across a baby who turns into a pig, and then finds herself at a mad tea party, where nothing, and no
one, makes sense. From here she finds herself at that Queens court, playing croquet, using a bird as a mallet. Playing cards are guards, and nothing is what it seems:
"Alice thought she had never seen such a curious croquet ground in her life: it was all ridges and furrows: the croquet balls were live hedgehogs, and the mallets live
flamingoes, and the soldiers had to double themselves up and stand on their hands and feet, to make the arches" (Carroll NA). In essence, the world is constantly changing and
always confusing. As one author states, there is a "kaleidoscope of characters--the White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Queen of Hearts--who have each captured the imaginations of