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Encyclopedia > Alice (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
John Tenniel illustrated the first editions of the Alice books. This image features Alice peering at the Drink Me bottle.
John Tenniel illustrated the first editions of the Alice books. This image features Alice peering at the Drink Me bottle.

Alice is a fictional character in the books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, which were written by Charles Dodgson under the pen name Lewis Carroll. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... 1889 Self-portrait Sir John Tenniel (February 28, 1820 – February 25, 1914) was an English illustrator. ... Alice, a fictional character based on a real character from the work of Lewis Carroll. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) is a work of childrens literature by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), generally categorized as literary nonsense. ... Photograph of Lewis Carroll taken by himself, with assistance Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (January 27, 1832 – January 14, 1898), better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was a British author, mathematician, Anglican clergyman, logician, and amateur photographer. ... A pen name or nom de plume is a pseudonym adopted by an author. ... Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) – believed to be a self-portrait Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (IPA: ) (January 27, 1832 – January 14, 1898), better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman and photographer. ...


The character has been said to be based on Alice Liddell, a child friend of Dodgson's. However Dodgson himself said several times that his 'little heroine' was not based on any real child, but was entirely fictional. The pictures certainly do not resemble Alice Liddell. 'Alice' is portrayed as a quaintly logical girl, sometimes even pedantic, especially with Humpty Dumpty in the second book. According to Through the Looking-glass, she is seven years old but seems to conduct herself like a somewhat older child. Alice Pleasance Liddell (May 4, 1852 – November 15, 1934) was the inspiration for childrens classic Alices Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. ... For the medical term see rigor (medicine) Rigour (American English: rigor) has a number of meanings in relation to intellectual life and discourse. ... Humpty Dumpty sits on a wall, prior to his fall. ... Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) is a work of childrens literature by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), generally categorized as literary nonsense. ...


Alice is popularly depicted wearing a pale blue knee-length dress with a white pinafore overtop, although the dress originally was yellow in The Nursery "Alice", the first coloured version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Her blonde hair is held back with a wide black ribbon, and in honour of Alice, such hairbows are sometimes called "Alice bands", particularly in the UK. Girl wearing a white pinafore over her dress (about 1910). ... The Nursery Alice is a shortened version of Lewis Carrolls Alices Adventures in Wonderland, adapted by the author himself for children from nought to five with twenty of Tenniels illustrations from the original book colored and enlarged. ...


As Alice was first drawn in black & white her colors would vary from artist to artist; it was Disney who made blue the most popular color for her dress and blonde for her hair. However, Alice has been colored by Tenniel in a blue dress, with white stripes at the bottom. Her pinafore is outlined in red.


Tenniel drew Alice in two variants: for "Through the Looking-glass" she was shown in striped stockings, an image which has remained in much of the later art.

Alice as portrayed in Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland

Besides the books, Alice has appeared in many other works, perhaps the most famous one being the Disney film version. There have been many other films, spinoff novels, comic book adaptations, and other forms of the story. Alice is also featured in the Playstation 2 game Kingdom Hearts, in the Wonderland level. In the game, Alice has been found guilty by the Queen of Hearts, and is put on trial. It is later found out that she is one of the seven 'Princesses of Hearts'. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The PlayStation 2 , abbreviated PS2) is Sonys second video game console, the successor to the PlayStation and the predecessor to the PlayStation 3. ... Kingdom Hearts video game. ... John Tenniels illustration of the King and Queen of Hearts at the trial of the Knave of Hearts. ...

Box of American McGee's Alice

In the 2000 PC game, American McGee's Alice, Alice is portrayed as an older, dark-brown haired girl with emerald green eyes. In the game, Alice is a tortured young woman, who at a young age was orphaned when her parents were burned alive in an accidental fire caused by her cat Dinah. Afterwards, she falls into a catatonic state, and condemned to Rutledge's Asylum for treatment. There she remains for many years, faced with her own survivor's guilt, and the mistreatment of patients in the mental hospitals of the time. Then, the Cheshire Cat arrives in her cell, and tells her she must return to Wonderland as their savior. By doing so, she not only saves Wonderland, but her own sanity. American McGee's Alice has Susie Brann voicing the titular character. Image File history File links American_McGee_Alice_box. ... Image File history File links American_McGee_Alice_box. ... The tone or style of this article or section may not be appropriate for Wikipedia. ...


The Czech surrealist Jan Švankmajer retold the story in a very dark 1988 film titled simply Alice. Woody Allen also called a film Alice, and while it was not a direct adaptation it did follow a woman who has a series of surreal adventures. Alice also appears as a college-attending teenager alongside Wendy Darling, Dorothy Gale and C.S. Lewis' Susan Pevensie (The Chronicles of Narnia) in Chicago of 2005 and 2006, in the comic book series, The Oz/Wonderland Chronicles. Dimensions of Dialogue, 1982 Jan Å vankmajer (born 4 September 1934 in Prague) is a Czech surrealist artist. ... Alice is a 1988 surrealist film in Czech by Jan Svankmajer. ... Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Königsberg on December 1, 1935) is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian, and playwright. ... Wendy Moira Angela Darling is a fictional heroine and main female protagonist in the Peter Pan stories by J.M. Barrie, in all their theatrical, literary, and motion picture adaptations. ... Doctor Who character, see Ace (Doctor Who). ... Clive Staples Lewis (November 29, 1898 – November 22, 1963), commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis, was an author and scholar. ... Susan Pevensie is one of the major characters in C. S. Lewiss Chronicles of Narnia series. ... The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of seven fantasy novels for children written by C. S. Lewis. ...


In all English Disney productions (excluding the Disney Channel original show, Adventures in Wonderland, where she was played by Elisabeth Harnois), Alice is voiced by Kathryn Beaumont, except in the Tokyo Disneyland DreamLights version of the Main Street Electrical Parade, Alice is voiced by Kat Cressida. Kristýna Kohoutová portrayed her in Svankmajer's Alice (her English dub was done by Camilla Power). In the Japanese version of Kingdom Hearts, she was voiced by Mika Doi. For the Disney Channel in other countries, see Disney Channel around the world. ... Adventures in Wonderland was a live-action childrens television series based on Walt Disneys animated classic Alice in Wonderland. ... Elisabeth Rose Harnois (born May 26, 1979 in Detroit, Michigan) is a television and film actress. ... Kathryn Beaumont (born 27 June 1938) is an English born voice actress/school teacher. ... Tokyo Disneyland ) is one of two theme parks in the Tokyo Disney Resort located in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan, near Tokyo. ... The Main Street Electrical Parade is a regularly-scheduled parade, created by Bob Jani, that is most famous for its long run at Disneyland at the Disneyland Resort most summers between 1972-1975, 1977-1982, and 1984-1996. ... The Main Street Electrical Parade is a regularly-scheduled parade, created by Bob Jani, famous for its long run at Disneyland at the Disneyland Resort most summers between 1972-1975, 1977-1982, and 1984-1996. ... Kathryn Kat Cressida is an American voice actress. ... Camilla Power (born November 13, 1976) is an English actress who is probably most notably remembered in her role as Jill Pole in BBCs TV adaptation of the book The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis. ... Doi Mika (土井 美加, née Itou Mika or 伊藤 美加) is a veteran seiyuu who was born on August 4, 1956 in Sendai. ...


Recently Alice has been portrayed by Beyonce Knowles for Disney's theme park campaign. Beyoncé in 2004 with her five Grammys. ...


External links

  • Character description of Alice

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2728 words)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a work of children's literature by the British mathematician and author Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll.
By this perspective, at its essence, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is not a dream but a surreal nightmare involving loss of control, inability to communicate or reason, rampant uncontrolled change of one's self and everything around, and a total inability to gain any foundation in the world.
Alice and the rest of Wonderland continue to inspire or influence many other works of art to this day—sometimes indirectly; via the Disney movie, for example.
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