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From the very beginning, then, the image of "Alice" has always been central. Tenniel certainly set an extremely high bar for illustrations – and he established many of the Wonderland tropes that endure across every medium, from her pinafore dress to the Hatter's top hat. Part of the reason Alice is so easily re-imagined is because she is so codified in the first place – something artists both use and subvert. Beautifully illustrated and ready to be printed and used right away, these Alice in Wonderland Playing Cards are made by teachers to try and engage children in their lessons - no matter the theme. Anastasia better known as the Red Queen, is one of the two main antagonists in the ABC show Once Upon a Time in Wonderland and she is played by Emma Rigby. The inspiration for Alice was actually based off of a real child: a close friend of Carroll who was also named Alice (Alice Liddell). Carroll would tell stories about strange adventures underground to entertain Alice and her other sisters with innocent fun on warm summer days. While having little picnics on the vast meadows near the lakes of Oxford and London, reading poems, having luncheon with tea, painting pictures, building card houses, and making flower crowns, Carroll and his sophisticated party very much enjoyed these funny stories to pass the time on those golden afternoons. Later on, Lewis Carroll would collect these stories and go on to write his famous classic book, originally titled " Alice's Adventures Underground", which he would dedicate to the real-life Alice Liddel.

Alice is a very lovely, pretty, and beautiful young girl with shoulder-length blonde hair and striking blue eyes. She usually wears a childish blue Victorian dress and a white pinafore apron. She also wears white tights with Mary Jane Shoes. She's shown as ghostly pale, like many other English people. Her hair, which is as yellow and blonde as corn, is usually down, showing her curls. Tenniel's illustrations for Through the Looking-Glass (1871): Alice and the White Queen (left) and Queen Alice and the Frog (right) Described as "the single greatest rival of Tenniel," Walt Disney created an influential representation of Alice in his 1951 film adaptation, which helped to mould the image of Alice within pop culture. [69] Although Alice had previously been depicted as a blonde in a blue dress in an unauthorised American edition of the two Alice books published by Thomas Crowell (1893), possibly for the first time, [70] Disney's portrayal has been the most influential in solidifying the popular image of Alice as such. [32] [71] Disney's version of Alice has its visual basis in Mary Blair's concept drawings [32] and Tenniel's illustrations. [69] While the film was not successful during its original run, [71] it later became popular with college students, who interpreted the film as a drug-drenched narrative. [72] In 1974, Alice in Wonderland was re-released in the United States, with advertisements playing off this association. [72] The drug association persists as an "unofficial" interpretation, despite the film's status as family-friendly entertainment. [72] Jaques, Zoe; Giddens, Eugene (2013). Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: A Publishing History. Ashgate. ISBN 978-1-4094-1903-7.Alice interpretations abound in this era. Adrian Piper and Joseph McHugh made Alice-inspired works in the characteristic swirling hot pinks and oranges of psychedelic art. Musicians got in on the act, from Jefferson Airplane's delicious, droning 1967 hit White Rabbit though to The Beatles' I am the Walrus, with John Lennon inspired by the poem The Walrus and the Carpenter from Through the Looking-Glass. Ralph Steadman's illustrations duly depict Lennon himself as the caterpillar, while German artist Sigmar Polke collaged Tenniel's original caterpillar into his trippy, polka-dotted works. There's more dottiness in Yayoi Kusama's 1968 "happening", where naked, spot-painted performers cavorted around the Alice statue in Central Park. "Alice was the grandmother of hippies. When she was low, Alice was the first to take pills to make her high," Kusama stated, spelling it out somewhat. Disney's 1951 version of Alice is seen as one of the most important characters of the video game series Kingdom Hearts. She is one of the Princesses of Heart — seven maidens of pure light needed to open the final Door to Darkness, leading to Kingdom Hearts, the heart of all worlds — and the first Princess of Heart the protagonist, Sora, meets in the first game. Alice also appears in the sequel, Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories and its remake, Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories, as a figment of the protagonist's memory. Also, in the anime Pandora Hearts, there are two characters loosely based on Alice. Alice the B. Rabbit and The Will of the Abyss. Both characters share their first name with Alice, and seeing as many aspects of Pandora Hearts are based on Alice in Wonderland, it can be assumed their names are as well. This Disney look has perhaps become the classic and most widely recognized Alice in Wonderland dress in later works and costumes.

Hancher, Michael (1985). The Tenniel Illustrations to the Alice Books. Columbus: Ohio State University Press. Alice has always had a life in other cultures, even while Disney’s blond bombshell was hogging the limelight. The V&A show features a Swahili depiction of Alice from 1941; in Japan, where Alice is as embedded in culture as she is in England – Carroll’s breakout Alice novel, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, was translated into Japanese in 1891 – Alice has a blue dress, but straight, dark hair.

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Waking from her dream and thereby returning to the real world, Alice meets William again. Having experienced a sexual awakening while in Wonderland, Alice accepts William's advances and they have sex in the library. In a closing sequence, Alice travels through Wonderland naked before she and William set off toward their new home, where they live "happily ever after".