ENG 280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Chessboard, Metalanguage, Double Entendre
14 May 2018
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Maria Konovalyuk 03.12
Through the Looking Glass
- Framed narrative: both opening and closing poetic frames
- Tone of opening poem
- Format of journey
- Chess game
- The movement of the chessboard
- Alice changes in this book – her body is in a state of flux, her identity is in a state
of flux.
- Queens & Hatter repeated like in Wonderland
- Opposing absurd queens
- This is the backwards world of adulthood
- Cry after a joke is made
- She no longer shifts in size, starts as pawn & ends as queen
- Hierarchy shift (start low & end up high)
- Starts as pawn & ends as queen
- Queen asserts dominance and has power
- No one wants to stay a pawn forever
- Striving for self-improvement & position
- Alice knows outcome in advance : expectations are met
- Prolongs experience (can stay forever)
- Passage of time
- Tale begun in other days
- Going into bed = death of maiden & birth of adult
- Marriage and losing virginity
- Contained inside house (Victorian drawing room = hub of household)
- Through the looking glass = mirror
- See in reverse
- Reverse world of Wonderland
- Game of randomness (cards freeplay) in 1st book
- Game of skill in 2nd book
CHAPTER 1
- Alice inside: her activities? : scolding her cat like parent
- “Jabberwocky” poem
- Tempo and quality of journey
CHAPTER 2
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Document Summary
Framed narrative: both opening and closing poetic frames. Alice changes in this book her body is in a state of flux, her identity is in a state of flux. Queens & hatter repeated like in wonderland. This is the backwards world of adulthood. She no longer shifts in size, starts as pawn & ends as queen. Hierarchy shift (start low & end up high) Starts as pawn & ends as queen. No one wants to stay a pawn forever. Alice knows outcome in advance : expectations are met. Going into bed = death of maiden & birth of adult. Contained inside house (victorian drawing room = hub of household) Game of randomness (cards freeplay) in 1st book. Alice breaks out of reappearing house cycle. Edict to take a return ticket ignored : can only g o one way not. Changes in size of wonderland replaced by changes in place/position. Queen can do addition but not subtraction (227)
