Post by VenusKQuest on Aug 13, 2003 23:35:26 GMT -5
Heh. I know what you're thinking "This isn't horror, WTF?"
Hi all, I'm Vanessa, aka Venus and V.
I say Alice in Wonderland is a horror for one KEY principle, imagine for a moment (that you are sane and...) you are locked up in a non-sensible world full of monsters and are totally lost. You are looking for your way home but everyone with answers merely attacks you.
This story is also a horror for Women's Rights...
I say THAT because the general moral of the story is "Curiousity killed the Female." While, in all rights this is a BAD message, I love this story.
Here's why:
It uses in-depth language that makes someone have to think.
The ideas it presents from animals turned almost human to cards that come to life... down to each humanization of all these foreign objects/beings... it is rather amazing.
Plus who can resist anything that has a cat insulting someone.
I'd quote that one instance with the Cheshire Cat and Alice but I am VERY lazy and refuse to look up that one line.
This story, as destroyed by Disney as it was, has some of the most unique characters in all of Victorian Novels!
Alice, a young, smarmy girl who comes from a well-off family.
Alice's sister who is only a side character with 12 lines at ABSOLUTE best.
The Mad Hatter, a disturbed person who could be found in the real world... and what looks to be his hallucinations.
Father Time, the concept that time is cruel.
The Lobster, Griffin and a character I forget... basically so many great references it hurts.
The Queen of Hearts and her court, the cruelty of politics and the leading class, who blames everyone for things out of their control... It's introspective I find.
The Dutchess, the Cook and the Pig Baby, showing the tripe some parents swallow in order to attain their means.
The White Rabbit, the fish/rodents and the Cards (also covered in the Queen's Court), they start it all but also are just blindly following their ruler, the Queen. They don't think past the moment but pay for that mistake in sheer stupidity.
And my favorites:
The Cheshire Cat and the Caterpillar, there to help but are VERY sarcastic and smart. They teach Alice to guide HERSELF to her moral growth, though the theme of 'foolishly following a white rabbit (read: dream) can get you into a whole LOAD of trouble.'
Sorry, I don't think this is a very good review, it's my first one ever though, so please bare with me!
Nice to meet you all! ;DTEXT
Hi all, I'm Vanessa, aka Venus and V.
I say Alice in Wonderland is a horror for one KEY principle, imagine for a moment (that you are sane and...) you are locked up in a non-sensible world full of monsters and are totally lost. You are looking for your way home but everyone with answers merely attacks you.
This story is also a horror for Women's Rights...
I say THAT because the general moral of the story is "Curiousity killed the Female." While, in all rights this is a BAD message, I love this story.
Here's why:
It uses in-depth language that makes someone have to think.
The ideas it presents from animals turned almost human to cards that come to life... down to each humanization of all these foreign objects/beings... it is rather amazing.
Plus who can resist anything that has a cat insulting someone.
I'd quote that one instance with the Cheshire Cat and Alice but I am VERY lazy and refuse to look up that one line.
This story, as destroyed by Disney as it was, has some of the most unique characters in all of Victorian Novels!
Alice, a young, smarmy girl who comes from a well-off family.
Alice's sister who is only a side character with 12 lines at ABSOLUTE best.
The Mad Hatter, a disturbed person who could be found in the real world... and what looks to be his hallucinations.
Father Time, the concept that time is cruel.
The Lobster, Griffin and a character I forget... basically so many great references it hurts.
The Queen of Hearts and her court, the cruelty of politics and the leading class, who blames everyone for things out of their control... It's introspective I find.
The Dutchess, the Cook and the Pig Baby, showing the tripe some parents swallow in order to attain their means.
The White Rabbit, the fish/rodents and the Cards (also covered in the Queen's Court), they start it all but also are just blindly following their ruler, the Queen. They don't think past the moment but pay for that mistake in sheer stupidity.
And my favorites:
The Cheshire Cat and the Caterpillar, there to help but are VERY sarcastic and smart. They teach Alice to guide HERSELF to her moral growth, though the theme of 'foolishly following a white rabbit (read: dream) can get you into a whole LOAD of trouble.'
Sorry, I don't think this is a very good review, it's my first one ever though, so please bare with me!
Nice to meet you all! ;DTEXT