Alice in wonderland subliminal messages

Is Alice in wonderland about drugs? It has been known that many people think of this movie about drugs. In the movie Alice drinks a liquid which makes her change sizes and eats mushrooms. Also on the way she meets a smoking caterpillar.


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Alice in wonderland information

Alice in wonderland information

FULL TITLE ·  Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

AUTHOR · Lewis Carroll

TYPE OF WORK · Novella

GENRE · Fairy tale; children’s fiction; satire; allegory

LANGUAGE · English

TIME AND PLACE WRITTEN · 1862–1863, Oxford

DATE OF FIRST PUBLICATION · 1865

PUBLISHER · Macmillan & Co.

NARRATOR · The narrator is anonymous and does not use many words to describe events in the story.

POINT OF VIEW · The narrator speaks in third person, though occasionally in first and second person. The narrative follows Alice around on her travels, voicing her thoughts and feelings.

TONE · Straightforward; avuncular

TENSE · Past

SETTING (TIME) · Victorian era, circa publication date

SETTING (PLACE) · England, Wonderland

PROTAGONIST · Alice

MAJOR CONFLICT · Alice attempts to come to terms with the puzzle of Wonderland as she undergoes great individual changes while entrenched in Wonderland.

RISING ACTION · Alice follows the White Rabbit down a well and pursues him through Wonderland.

CLIMAX · Alice gains control over her size and enters the garden, where she participates in the trial of the Knave of Hearts.

FALLING ACTION · Alice realizes that Wonderland is a sham and knocks over the playing card court, causing her to wake up and dispel the dream of Wonderland.

THEMES · The tragic and inevitable loss of childhood innocence; Life as a meaningless puzzle; Death as a constant and underlying menace

MOTIFS · Dream; subversion; language; “curious,” “nonsense,” and “confusing”

SYMBOLS · The garden; the mushroom

FORESHADOWING · The Mouse’s history about Fury and the Mouse foreshadows the trial at the end of the story.

Alice and wonderland group project

The mad hatter and his walking tea party

Me and Amy started playing around in a box and came up with the initial idea of being tweedledee and tweedledum, within the box. But we had no idea what the box could be. 

Ideas for the box:

-toy duck 

-car 

-collage of clips from the movie 

-tea party 

Tea party:

We started to think of ways we could hold the box up with as little effort as possible. With the help of others we made suspenders that attach to the box. Also as the box was droopy we put a few sticks of willow within the box to support to the top. 

Then we found a sheet of fabric and cut in body holes to put over the box to make the table cloth. We have decided to use others help to create cups, treats and table toppers.

Table toppers need to be a light material so the box isn't weighed down and the shape isn't altered.
Materials such as modroc, polystyrene and plastercine may be the right type to use. The type of materials I could use for icing could be coloured wax, glink, or paint.

Costume: 

Mad hatter: The mad hatter will be wearing a velvet waistcoat, bow tie (either made with buttons or badges), boot cut trousers, vest top and top hat. 

Tweedledee and tweedledum:

stripy top, leggings, stripped socks. Doc martens, and hat. 

Final outcome 

For the tweedle Dee and tweedle dum costumes I picked up two yellow shirts up from a charity shop, some yellow paper and some blue and red crêpe paper. I formed the bows and hats using the crêpe paper and yellow paper, also with a tad bit of superglue.

Alice in wonderland Changes

As I was looking through the clothes boxes in the textiles room I started trying clothes on and seeing what fit me. Eleanor was also trying on clothes and we all decided to try fit her in as much as possible. This then reminded us of Alice changing sizes due to the poison she drank and her clothes shrinking and ripping.

Alice in wonderland

Here is a guide through my experiments

1. I started of by creating a tea cake stand. I decided to try this out by using modroc and wire. As I started of i thought it would go well until I realised the modroc would not stay supported and sank. I began to get stressed and moved on to a different idea.

 

2. I decided to try create a tea cake holder with cardboard and tissue paper aswell. I created four tiers by using different sizes of circular objects to create a stencil. I used colourful tissue paper to cover the tiers.

 3.  After playing around with trying to make a cake stand I started to play with plasticine to try to create some tea party food for props.

4. Here are more tea party treats I made using by using polystyrene, modroc and wax. These turned out really well.  

Project so far- Alice in wonderland

Project so far- Evaluation

At the beggining of this project I decided to go into prop and costume.
First of all I decided that I wanted to re-create tea party scene making big cakes and treats. I started of by doing small experiments first to see how the outcome would turn out so I wouldnt spend time of something that wouldnt turn out right. I also tried to create a colourful cake stand. I started using cardboard and wrapping it with tissue paper, it all started falling apart, also I didnt know what sturdy material I could use to hold up the tiers for the stand. I then decided to try creating the stand out with modroc and wire. As the modroc was wet it would just flop of the wire and wouldn't hold as I would of liked it to. I would of liked it to have been straight on the bottom and round. I then moved on to making props out of plastercine, this didnt turn out very well as im more of a fast worker than doing things to precise. Also I made a few table props from polystren and modroc. I simply just cut out some shapes from the polystrene and covered them with modroc; I then decorated them with paint, wax and glitter to add the toppings.

I then began to think about making the tradional alice in wonderland into more of an adult comedy. I started looking at hidden messages and images within this film. I didnt find much information within this but what I did come up with is collecting alcohol bottles, filling them with ink/water and adding the drink me sign on the bottle top. I found miniture bottles so I could do my own mini bottles with no labels on and also closed with a cork like the original film.

I was getting really iriatble with not knowing what i wanted to make. Whilst I wondered I came across a pack of cards in the studio and came up with the idea of making a queen of hearts costume with playing cards. I began by thinking of structures on how I could hold the dress together. I decided and then proceeded to sew cards onto some ribbon so i could tie them around the body. I created 4 of these being 13 cards on each strip. I was going to just create a body fully of these strip but after a week of being off college I came to college with a fresh mind and began to create an elegant dress, but still including the strips of cards. I have used black velvet for the base of the dress as it is quite an elegant material and looks quite shiny. I have also added a small red trail on the back of the dress. I first decided to do this so i could leave a fitting space within the dress and also to cover the ribbon of the card strips. I then decided on having the strips of cards on to the bottom of the dress so the dress doesnt look bold and so in your face and also It would keep the dress more elegant. The purpose of this dress is to not give the queen of hearts a vibe of im better than everyone else. I wish for the outcome to look lady like and more of an evening dress.

When I have completed the dress I have a few things in mind what I can do. I am contemplating create sponge treats out of fabrics and also create more character costumes. I have enjoyed using textiles for this project as it brings all different types of arts into one and all different techniques can be used.


Project continued:

I have created a velvet dress with cards stuck around the bottom. I started by making the base of the dress. Which I rushed and made a mess off. I then made a red velvet back to the dress to cover up the mistakes I made.

Alice in wonderland Costume

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