The real story of Alice in Wonderland?

Question

i heard from my friends that alice in wonderland is not a happy story at all, but alice was actually "on drugs" or something, and when she woke up she found that she has killed all her family and friends, disney is just trying to make everything happier..etc etc..
I try to research this but couldn't find much...
could anyone tell me if this is true? if so, give me a link or source?

Answer 1

Nope that is a lie.

You have some friends on drugs?

I guess you are gullible and will believe anything told to you.

Alice is a children's book and sadly your friends lied to you.

Answer 2

Story Behind Alice In Wonderland

Answer 3

Alice In Wonderland Theory

Answer 4

Even though a lot of people believe that the entire story is a metaphor for drugs and drug use because of the caterpillar,s hookah, the mushrooms, and Alice's crazy hallucinations, Alice in Wonderland has nothing whatsoever to do with either cocaine or LSD, as cocaine had only been recently invented at the time the book was written and had not begun to be used. Also LSD wasn't even invented til decades later.

Answer 5

Alice and wonderland that is for children is not the real story the real alice in wonderland is actually a gruesome story and has some pretty good things in it it is not meant for children

Answer 6

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The real story of Alice in Wonderland?

i heard from my friends that alice in wonderland is not a happy story at all, but alice was actually "on drugs" or something, and when she woke up she found that she has killed all her family and friends, disney is just trying to make everything happier..etc etc..

I try to research this...

Answer 7

Wow.. I don't know where your friend got her information but she is vastly mistaken. Alice in Wonderland was originally a book by Lewis Carrol. I've read the book several times and I don't think there is a single thing about her killing anyone. There is also a second portion Through The Looking Glass but neither of them have anything to do with drugs or the main character murdering anyone. Maybe your friend was trying to scare you or was herself misinformed. It's actually an interesting and easy to find book and you could probably find it at a local library.

Answer 8

Well, It's a NOVEL by Louis Carroll(Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) if you read The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, you will know. It's is not mythology. The genre he wrote in was called "Literary nonsense."--really not kidding.



The source would be the books.

Answer 9

Your friend is either messing with you, thinking some other modern made up twist on Alice in Wonderland is the original one*, or confusing it with some other story entirely.



Disney does "clean up" a lot of the stories it makes from their original source. Just read the original Cinderella (where the step-sister cuts off her own toes and heels to make the glass slipper fit and actually rides off with the prince before he realizes the lie), The Little Mermaid (where the mermaid sells her tongue for legs which pain her and bleed constantly and the prince winds up loving and and marrying another anyway as the heartbroken mermaid throws herself back in the sea to dissolve into seafoam), or Pinocchio (where he kills the talking cricket character with a hammer after it chides him, sends his father to prison basically for child abuse, and burns his own feet clean off while trying to dry them over a fire).



But the version your friend gave you of the original Alice in Wonderland story isn't true at all. In fact, Alice in Wonderland may be one of the more faithful Disney adaptations to the original story.





*Their description sounds a little like the plot to the American McGee's Alice video game, though that is a purely modern "version" of the story purposefully made twisted for the video game.

Answer 10

Lewis Carroll was also writing a Social Commentary of England. All of the characters in his story were based on a recognizable English person. Like the Red Queen was Queen Mary, the older sister of Elizabeth I. She was known as Bloody Mary for her habit of killing Protestants as heretics. It also pointed out the plight of Hatters who very often went insane from the chemicals used in the felting process. There is a term "mad as a march hare". This is taken from the actions of English hares in the spring. They tend to hop about and dash around for no apparently reason, seeming crazy to onlookers.



Carroll used all this and more in his story. It was meant for a children's story after all.



There is no drugs mentioned in it but remember that most of the drugs they had were often sold "over the counter" and would now days be illegal or highly regulated. Things like morphine, heroin and cocaine were widely used and not regulated by the law. He could have mentioned them and not meant anything by it any more than the mention of the use of alcohol.



I agree that your friends may be mixing it up with the computer game, Alice. This is supposed to be long after her adventures. Her family has been killed in a fire and she is in a mental institution. She didn't kill them. She is the mad one now and sees horrors instead of the relatively happy place she saw before. There is much death and mayhem in the game.

Answer 11

One day in the summer of 1864, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and a friend took three (I think) little girls, daughters of another friend, for a boat ride on the Thames near Oxford, and when they came ashore to rest, he made up a story to tell them, giving its main character the name of one of the little girls, Alice Liddell. The story begins with the fictitious Alice sitting bored on the grass while her older sister reads a grown-up type book that doesn't interest Alice. Then she sees a white rabbit hurry by, pull a watch out of its pocket, and exclaim, "I'm late!" Naturally intrigued, she follows it and falls down a rabbit hole into Wonderland, where she has a series of curious adventures that end with a confrontation at the court of the King and Queen of Hearts. She loses patience with the flat, rectangular people there and exclaims, "You're nothing but a pack of cards!" and tosses them into the air. The next thing she knows, she's waking up on the grass beside her sister with leaves blowing on her like the cards in the dream. In other words, she fell asleep from boredom and woke up when the leaves blew in her face.



If there's any additional "real" story behind the book, it's that Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll, was a mathematician and filled his children's stories with subtle mathematical in-jokes.

Answer 12

Wow, never heard, the part of her killing her family and friends part, but I have heard of the on drugs part. This is right up their with the "Wonderland is the World of the Dead" theory where Alice supposedly "died" and took a first look of Hell sorta thing. Weird how many people make interesting theories of what this tale is about.



Anyways, the tale was just about how imagination can run wild kind of thing. Where what ever can't happen and what seems ridiculous becomes like a reality. In it though my teacher said is was sorta dark kind of place. Not like the Tim Burton's Film but still kind of dark. In it, it wasn't really happy but it wasn't really scare or messed up.

Answer 13

Alice in wonderland is well hard to explain. Basically she's just very messed up and very sick. You should play Alice madness returns, it's a very good representation of the actual story.

Answer 14

Your friends are talking about alice in Wonderland maddness returns. It's a video game check it out. WARNING _ IS really twisted and dark. I know what your friends are talking about

Answer 15

The Story you are referring to is actually the American McGee's Alice. She resides in an insane asylum after a fire she caused killed her whole family. It's an awesome game

Answer 16

I think that sounds like an urban legend.



This sounds more believable.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Liddell