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Read & Write My homeworks Nouns verbs Articles Adverbs Adjectives Prepositions Pronouns Conjunctions   Another SWART Prepositions --- Week: ...    [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] ... |     2010 - [ANSWER]  練習答案 ...                  The Hatter   Most people know The Hatter (left: as portrayed by Disney) as The Mad Hatter even though Lewis Carroll never calls him this. However, the Cheshire Cat does tell Alice he’s mad and The Hatter often behaves in an irrational way. At the famous Hatter Tea Party (known as the Mad Hatter Tea Party) in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, The Hatter tells Alice that when he tried to sing for the Queen of Hearts, she accused him of murdering time. Ever since then he and the March Hare have been behaving as if the clock stopped at teatime - and that therefore it’s teatime all the time.  This explains at least some of the madness though not the Hatter's appalling manners. At the party he makes several offensive remarksat Alice and asks a riddle that has no answer, ‘Why is a raven like a writing desk?’ The Hatter appears later in the book as a witness at a trial, where he seems nervous and frightened of the Queen. The King threatens to decapitate him if he doesn't pull himself together. Way to soothe someone's nerves... NOT! The Hatter is usually depicted wearing a large top hat with a tag on it that says ‘10/6’, which is believed to be a price tag for ten shillings and six pence of old English money. Lewis Carroll is said to have based the character on a furniture dealer in England called Theophilus Carter who was known at the Mad Hatter and often stood at the door of his shop wearing a top hat. Many believe The Hatter is the same character as The Hatta, from Lewis Carroll’s second book, Through the Looking Glass.   The Queen of Hearts The Queen of Hearts (left: as portrayed by Disney) is the darkest of all the Alice in Wonderland characters. She is a ruthless tyrant who orders decapitations for the slightest offence – or none at all. She has an altogether backward view of justice, preferring to punish first and seek a verdict later, if at all. Fortunately most of those she sentences to death escape unharmed because the King pardons them behind her back. Croquet is one of the Queen’s favorite hobbies. However, she plays it a little differently to most - and that's putting it mildly! She uses live flamingoes in place of mallets, live hedgehogs for balls and live soldiers as arches.  And she bends the rules to her advantage so that she wins every time. The Queen of Hearts is usually portrayed as Lewis Carroll describes her, a playing card with the ability to walk and talk, shouting her infamous catchphrase, “Off with their heads”. The Alice in Wonderland characters  are unique, colorful and just the right kind of crazy. Read some of their witty and whimsical quote in Lewis Carroll quotes.     Famous Fairy Tales. Alice in Wonderland Characters The Alice in Wonderland characters stand out. In a genre populated by fairy folk, dragons and knights in shining armor, they defy normalcy in every way. Most fantasy stories contain characters that are either primarily good or primarily evil, with varying shades of gray. The characters in Lewis Carroll’s two famous books about Alice, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, rarely fall into either category. Most of them are neither especially good n’or evil. They’re just plain mad! (Above: An illustration by John Tenniel from an early edition of Lewis Carroll's 1866 book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) Alice (left: as portrayed by Disney) is the main character in Lewis Carroll’s two famous books about her, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. Lewis Carroll is thought to have based Alice on a real life little girl called Alice Liddell. The fictional Alice celebrates her birthday on 4 May. She is a seven years old in the first book and seven and a half in the second book - an important age difference as she likes to point out - but acts more mature than her tender years might suggest. She is highly intelligent and imaginative and enjoys showing off her knowledge to others. Both Alice's mind and her manners are often in sharp contrast with those of her fellow Alice in Wonderland characters. Despite a vivid imagination, she is a logical girl who depends on reason to understand the world around her. So she's often puzzled by the behaviour of the characters she meets down the rabbit hole, many of whom say and do things that don't make any sense (at least not to her)! She's also offended by their ill manners, most famously those of The Hatter, who directs several rude remarks at her at the Mad Hatter Tea Party. Alice is most often portrayed as a blonde slender girl wearing a blue knee-length dress with a white pinafore, a pair of stripy tights and a wide hairband. This image of her has been popularized by Disney and embraced by the public.   Give us your Feedback. We will respond to your enquiry as soon as possible.
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