Actually when The book was originally released
it got mixed reviews. Some said it was great others said it was
dark and morbid and thats how it has been seen over the years.
There are many reasons as to why many think it is a Dark and morbid story.
For one thing Alice touches the subject of death many many times such as:
falling down the rabbit hole, almost drowning, she even has made statements such as
Quote:
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"Well!" thought Alice to herself. "After such a fall as this, i shall think nothing of tumbling down-stairs! How brave they'll think of me at home! Why,i wouldn't think anything about it, even if i fell off the top of the house! (Which was very likely true)
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The narrator agreed with Alice, but not for the reason many think after falling off a house, the reason why she would not say anything is because she would be dead.
Another time she is pointing out her own decapitation without even noticing she is doing it:
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How she longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander among those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains, but she could not even get her head through the doorway, "and even if my head Would go through," thought poor Alice, "it would be of very little use without my shoulders"
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she is showing the allusion of death and foreshadowing future events.
Both of those scenes take place right in the 1st chapter.
The poems have even proved to contain death such as the 2nd verse of the Crocodile poem:
Quote:
"How Cheerfully he seems to grin,
How neatly spreads his claws,
And Welcomes little fishes in,
With Gently smiling jaws!"
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now why would a little girl being sing such a deathly poem?
she also makes a point at drowning in her own tears:
Quote:
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"I wish i hadn't cried so much!" said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. "I shall be punished for it now, i suppose, by drowned in my own tears!"
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she is then told a story that has nothing but stating they will put someone to death
Quote:
“Fury said to
a mouse, That
he met in the
house, Let
us both go
to law: I
will prose—
cute you.—
Come I’ll
take no
denial: We
must have
the trial;
For really
this morning
I’ve
nothing
to do.
Said the
mouse to
the cur,
’Such a
trial, dear
sir. With
no jury
or judge,
would
be wasting
our
breath.’
’I’ll be
judge,
I’ll be
jury,’
said
cunning
old
Fury:
’I’ll
try
the
whole
cause,
and
condemn
you to
death.
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Later in the story the King and the Queen both talk of Executing people in the story
such as Alice, and the Mad Hatter and other minor characters.
Then of course there is the References to drugs which are paired with the Caterpillar
who is smoking a Hookah [i believe i spelled that right].
He talks in a round about way and repeats himself and gets himself lost and confused,which turns and gets Alice lost and confused.He in the end doesn't help Alice and almost costs her her own life by not telling her which side of the mushroom causes her continue to shrink.
even when the follow up book was written it contained more death in it.
Like for instance the Poem of The Walrus and the Carpenter:
they tricked a young group of clams into following them and then in turn ate them.resulting in death!
there are man other things that make both stories non kid friendly.
Many kids tend to ignore them becuase they are oblivious to them, but for this tobe written by a man for kids it is one to start a major controversy over.
May do believe it is a dark story and i for one do believe so
thats my two cents on how the story has been seen as dark and morbid and yes i had my book out with me when i wrote this, this is a subject i have talked many times on so im not worried about point out why i and many others think it is dark and morbid.
But as for the movie itself being made by Burton i think it will come out very well,and it would be nice to see another movie done in the same
style as NMBC.
I think he will do great he will do a version that many belvie the story is referrring to.
in the end no one will know for sure what Carroll was trying to portray since no one will ever be able to talk to him.For now these are the things peopel are seeing just by reading it.
the minute i read the story the 1st time i thought it was dark and strange and morbid. others see it differently when they read it.
but i think it i will be amazing when it is done.
