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Acknowledgments My writing of this thesis has smoothly come to an end, and I hereby would like to extend my sincere gratitude to the following people for their selfless dedication and contribution to my thesis.36893
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My profound gratitude first goes to Associate Prof. , both my supervisor and my teacher for the British and American Literature Course. I admire her a lot for her unique and in-depth understanding of literary works and many other things in the world. She is a lady who was born in the era but her thoughts go beyond this era. And my interests of literature mainly come from her because I want to be as knowledgeable and elegant as she is. So I read a lot of books and choose literary as my paper direction. As a supervisor, she gives me constant guidance and encouragement in the process of my writing. She offered me considerable and constructive advice, practical and profound suggestions on the completion of my paper. Just under her careful and patient guidance, I begin to get a clear idea of the paper and fully frame it out. Without her support and help, the completion of the present thesis is impossible.
I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the teachers who have ever taught me throughout my college years, especially Prof. Zhong Ling and Prof. Cheng Qinghua. Prof. Zhong, the teacher for The Academic Writing Course, is very special for her unique way of thinking, influencing me greatly in nurturing the mind-set of critical thinking. Also she helps a lot in building up my confidence for she believes there is no absolute right or wrong as long as you can support your views. Prof. Cheng, my Advanced English Course teacher. Influenced by his optimistic attitudes and humorous teaching style, I begin to believe that writing the paper is not so frightening any more. I have more confidence in the road of writing for his responsible and devoted attitude toward his students. I am also very grateful to all other teachers of the School of Foreign Languages who gave me direct or indirect help during my study in the college.
I am also grateful to my classmates and roommates for their encouragement, support, comments and wise advice.
Last, I wish to devote this paper to my parents for their everlasting dedication and full faith for me.
Abstract
With the advancement of modern technology and the increasingly faster pace of people’s life styles, the materials greatly flourish while at the same time there are more and more people stuck with a kind of psychological sense of loss. It is at this time that people need to ask for help from the classics of literature. Those literature works are comforting and have the effect of healing mentally. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is such a classic that gains much popularity among children and adults even as a children’s literature. The world between the cradle and the grave is one where the growing agony, as well as the irrational change and predicaments that the antagonist has experienced prevail, and all these will reveal something that is similar and resounding in every human nature. During this process, one can learn a lot, knowing better about the world as well as the inner oneself. Thus the book is of great value to be further studied from different perspectives.
Different people or more exactly, different scholars hold different views about the novel. Some scholars for example, Fan Shu (1999:71), studied it from an angle of the humor embodied in this work, and pointed out that the humor comes from the fantastic imagination and some tactics in the ways of telling which contribute a lot to its humorous effect. Some other scholars like Liu Wen, discussed the novel from its writing technique, that is to say, the cohesion in promoting an easier understanding of the novel（2010：9）. This paper, however, will discuss the novel from my own understanding after reading this literary works again and again, combining with other scholars’ opinions, making a detailed analysis of the main theme of the literature work, and what Alice has gone through and what can we learn from the imaginary and fantastic wonderland.