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A 5 page essay that contrasts and compares the fantastic elements in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. The writer argues that both books feature the fantastical element of talking animals, who serve not only as secondary characters, but actually as protagonists, and that Grahame's book is quite "sensible" compared to Carroll's. No additional sources cited.
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the fantastical element of talking animals, who serve not only as secondary characters, but actually as protagonists. However, there is also a fundamental difference between the two texts. Alice
is basically an extended and delightful play on words in which anything can happen and frequently does. Rather than follow a logical plot, as such, Alice consists of a
series of sketches that are held together by the general idea that Alice is trying to determine where the White Rabbit went. The Wind in the Willows, on
the other hand, except for the fact that it anthropomorphizes a toad, water rat and mole into the main characters, represents a comprehensible reality that is reflective of real
life. In other words, the world pictured in Willows follows the laws of reality. In Alice, eating anything can make Alice either smaller or larger, and it is
possible to talk to flowers. In other words, all assumptions about how reality is comprised are temporarily suspended. But in Willows, except for the talking animals, reality functions as
normal. As suggested above, Alices Adventures in Wonderland is largely about nonsense. It consists of various scenes or episodes in which Alice encounters strange creatures and, at first,
tries to find out what happened to the White Rabbit, but then, later, she is more concerned with finding her way home. At the end of the novel, Alice wakes
up and it is revealed that the entire book, starting from where Alice fell down the rabbit-hole, has been a dream. This explanation makes the whole novel make a certain
kind of sense as anything is possible in a dream. Like dreams, it is a hodge-podge of this and that, never quite making sense. What this does is provide
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