{"id":694,"date":"2020-11-19T06:49:37","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T06:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/19thcennovel\/?p=694"},"modified":"2020-11-19T06:49:37","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T06:49:37","slug":"reflection-in-the-mirror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/19thcennovel\/2020\/11\/19\/reflection-in-the-mirror\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflection in the Mirror"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lewis Carroll\u2019s <\/span><\/span>Alice\u2019s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass <\/span><\/span>is a seemingly nonsensical piece. However,<\/span><\/span> its <\/span><\/span>chaotic\u00a0<\/span><\/span>flow is well thought out and relevant<\/span><\/span>. The illustrations were scrutinized<\/span><\/span> by Caroll and the artist, which is interesting because some have odd <\/span><\/span>designs and\u00a0<\/span><\/span>placements<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0Characters will be significantly mentioned in the text on the <\/span><\/span>page<\/span><\/span> but the illustration does not acknowledge them. The text<\/span><\/span>\u00a0itself structurally also forms around<\/span><\/span>\u00a0the images; t<\/span><\/span>hey make up the page together<\/span><\/span>. This is because as tough to understand a<\/span><\/span>s\u00a0<\/span><\/span>they may be sometimes<\/span><\/span>, <\/span><\/span>Collins wants the reader to recognize the contents of the image. Even if their purpose is a \u201cbrain break\u201d for the rest of the story on the page, because this is a children\u2019s book after all.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0The way that Collins has set up this novel <\/span><\/span>alludes\u00a0<\/span><\/span>that<\/span><\/span>\u00a0he does not want the reader to correlate two subject matters just because they are placed next to or near each other.<\/span><\/span> To rely less on context <\/span><\/span>clues, and<\/span><\/span> focus on matters individually in order to explore deeper. This allows the reader to truly analyze everything on every page<\/span><\/span> of\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the novel<\/span><\/span>. <\/span><\/span>The lack of <\/span><\/span>order and\u00a0<\/span><\/span>hierarchy of importance to the situations <\/span><\/span>illustrated<\/span><\/span> further drives the idea that the contents are random, while they are just truly meant to stand on their own<\/span><\/span>. A looking glass\u2014or mirror\u2014is an ideal way to explore deeper into oneself.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0A person may recognize herself or she may not, but at some <\/span><\/span>point<\/span><\/span> there will be a look in the mirror that will be the first occurrence of <\/span><\/span>self recognition<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0When Alice is playing with the two kittens in the beginning of <\/span><\/span>Through the Looking Glass<\/span><\/span>, the black kitten is the naughty and bad one wher<\/span><\/span>eas the white kitten is innocent and pure. <\/span><\/span>Alice threatens the black kitty that if he is not good, \u201c[she\u2019ll] put [him] through into Looking-Glass House. How w<\/span><\/span>ould [he] like <\/span><\/span>that<\/span><\/span>?\u201d (Collins 119).<\/span><\/span> Alice is using this consequence like it is daunting or difficult. <\/span><\/span>The black kitten<\/span><\/span>, the \u201cbad\u201d one,<\/span><\/span> b<\/span><\/span>eing <\/span><\/span>p<\/span><\/span>ut through the looking glass <\/span><\/span>would be<\/span><\/span> apparently an unpleasant<\/span><\/span>, potentially <\/span><\/span>frightening<\/span><\/span>,<\/span><\/span> experience<\/span><\/span>\u00a0if he had to reflect on himself.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0The contents of the novel are not random and they all surface back to the title\u2019s main idea of deeper reflection.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lewis Carroll\u2019s Alice\u2019s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass is a seemingly nonsensical piece. However, its chaotic\u00a0flow is well thought out and relevant. The illustrations were scrutinized by Caroll and the artist, which is interesting because some have odd designs and\u00a0placements.\u00a0Characters will be significantly mentioned in the text on the page but the illustration … Continue reading Reflection in the Mirror<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138877],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/19thcennovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/19thcennovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/19thcennovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/19thcennovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/19thcennovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/19thcennovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/19thcennovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/19thcennovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/19thcennovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}