The real Alice and the golden afternoon
The missing characters Disney skipped
Hidden math and logic puzzles
Dark Victorian satire and political undercurrents
galleta Disney's Americanization of Alice
They traded dry Victorian class for high-speed cartoon jazz
galleta Drag each card royal to discover the real Victorian monarchs who inspired Lewis Carroll.
galleta Victorian children endured forced memorization of Isaac Watts's pious poetry, which Lewis Carroll transformed into Alice's predatory crocodile verse.
Which famous moralistic poem by Isaac Watts did Lewis Carroll parody with 'How doth the little crocodile'?
Why did Lewis Carroll choose to parody well-known schoolroom poems in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?
galleta Disney omitted Lewis Carroll's witty schoolroom puns from the animated movie adaptation
What did the Mock Turtle's school subject 'Reeling and Writhing' actually represent in Victorian school curriculum?
Stuttering Dodo: Due to Charles Dodgson's stutter, he felt most comfortable speaking with children, who were far less judgmental than Victorian academics.
Which Wonderland character did Charles Dodgson base on himself, referencing his own speech stutter?
Which characters in the pool of tears scene represent Alice Liddell's sisters, Lorina and Edith?
The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices. Lewis Carroll used the Queen of Hearts in 1865 to mock the arbitrary power of Queen Victoria.
In what year did Walt Disney release his classic animated film adaptation of Alice in Wonderland?
What region's audience did Walt Disney specifically target when he decided to cut Carroll's dry British wordplay?