The first image, showing an elongated girl, is one of the
original illustrations in Lewis Carroll’s novel Alice in Wonderland. The illustration can be found near the middle
of the novel, where Alice experience several physical transformations on her
body shape. Though the narrative is showing physical change, it is metaphorical
in how Alice is confused about her identity.
The second image is that of a flower and even though a
flower is a very generic familiar item found anywhere, it can be easily related
to Carroll and his imagination. In the sequel novel, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, Alice meets a
group of flowers that range from lilies to roses to daisies. The entire
exchange was one of the highlights in the novel that every Alice in Wonderland film adapted it –again, the scene is from the sequel,
not the original, and yet they choose to include it anyways. Now only does
Carroll have a fascination to plants but mostly animals as well. In both of his
novels, he explores the relationship between humans and animals by developing
animal characters that contrast the human characters.
When it comes to digging a bit deeper into Carroll,
human-animal chemistry is definitely one of the more popular topics, which
brings me to my third picture. The picture shows a man riding his horse in a
race-like event. We can tell that it’s a race based on how the man is dressed,
with those pants and that familiar hat. This brings up the question of whether
or not these horses are treated well, since they are used for entertainment.
Granted, there may be some examples of horses who are trained by the same
person who raised them, but there must be outliers. Remember the entire
Entertainment section of the documentary Earthlings?
They included circus elephants and racing horses. Surely this is a topic that
Carroll hints at throughout his novels.
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