Учебно-методическое пособие по работе с книгой Л. Кэрролла "Приключения Алисы в Стране Чудес". Дедова С.А. - 20 стр.

and pieces of fairy tales. Despite her unfamiliar surroundings, Alice             3. Discuss the following topics.
attempts to interpret everything around her from a logical point of
                                                                                   1. During her time in Wonderland, Alice's height consistently
view. However, her natural childishness consistently offsets the sensi-
                                                                            undergoes changes. Why does Lewis Carroll choose to change Alice's
bility and maturity that she tries so hard to show. At the beginning of
                                                                            size? What does this frequent change in Alice's height signify?
the story, Alice tries to read her older sister's book, only to become
                                                                                   2. How does Alice react to these changes in her height? How do
bored because it lacks pictures. She notices the unusualness the bottle
                                                                            other creatures and characters respond to these changes? For example,
labeled «Drink Me» but then drinks its contents without a thought for
                                                                            each time the White Rabbit encounters Alice, she is of various sizes.
the consequences. Throughout Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,
                                                                            When the White Rabbit sees the large Alice in the corridor outside the
Lewis Carroll constantly emphasizes the conflict between Alice's de-
                                                                            small door leading to the garden, he does not notice or acknowledge
sire to be sensible and grow up and her natural childish impulses.
                                                                            Alice. When she speaks to him, he darts away. However, when the two
This conflict is apparent in Alice's conversation with herself while
                                                                            meet again later, the White Rabbit calls Alice by the name of what she
trapped in the white rabbit's house.
                                                                            presumes to his housemaid, Mary Ann. He sends Alice to go fetch a
        I do wonder what can have happened to me! When I used to
                                                                            fan and a pair of white gloves. However, while in the house, Alice
read fairy tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now
                                                                            grows to a gigantic size, and then soon afterwards again shrinks. Then,
here I am in the middle of one! There ought to be a book written about
                                                                            the White Rabbit and Alice meet each other one final time at the
me, that there ought! And when I grow up, I'll write one – but I'm
                                                                            courthouse, where Alice again grows tall. How does Alice's change in
grown up now», she added in a sorrowful tone: «at least there's no
                                                                            height relate to her interactions with the White Rabbit?
room to grow up any more here».
                                                                                   3. Alice maintains detachment from her surroundings. She
        Alice thinks that she has grown up, but only physically – the
                                                                            forms no strong or lasting relationships with any of the creatures or
concept of maturity never seems to cross her mind. Yet she tries to act
                                                                            persons in Wonderland. Upon meeting the sorrowful Mock Turtle,
like an adult, claiming that she knew that «this kind of thing never
                                                                            Alice «pitied him deeply» and inquires, «What is his sorrow?» Any
happened» in the fairy tales that she «used to read». However, imme-
                                                                            emotional bond here is quickly undermined by the Gryphon's abrupt
diately after this sentence that denounces fairy tales as childish inven-
                                                                            answer. «It's all his fancy, that: he hasn't got no sorrow, you know.
tions, Alice claims that there «ought to be a book about me». In this
                                                                            Come on!» Why?
way, she belittles and yet admires fairy tales. The last sentence of this
                                                                                   5. Alice embodies secure conventions and self-assured regula-
passage, «And when I grow up, I'll write one», sums up Alice's con-
                                                                            tions, and Wonderland is dedicated to undermining those conventions
flicts between her childish imagination and her desire to grow up.
                                                                            and regulations. Give examples of it.
        1. What is Carroll trying to say about fairy tales and the way
that «sensible» people view them?
                                                                                  4. Render the following comments into English.
        2. When Alice describes «growing up», she uses terms based on
size and not maturity. Why?                                                       Ошеломленному читателю, впервые открывающему «Али-
        3. Does the phrase «at least there's no more room to grow up        су», может показаться, что все в ней спутано, все непонятно и
any more here» have a larger meaning for the book or Alice's hope of        бессмысленно. Однако, вглядевшись, он начинает понимать, что в
growing up?                                                                 бессмыслице этой есть своя логика и своя система. Чувство это
        4. Even though a caterpillar is the infant stage of what inevita-   крепнет при повторном чтении, а «Алиса» принадлежит к тем
bly turns into a butterfly or moth, does the Caterpillar represent an old   книгам, к которым возвращаешься снова и снова на протяжении
wise man? How do the other fantastic characters that we have met so         всей жизни, каждый раз читая ее новыми глазами. Недаром столь-
far (such as the animals in the pond of tears) represent adults?            ко замечательных людей любили «Алису» и писали о ней – Гил-

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