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Last Name 1 Your Name Instructor Name Course Number Date Alice in Wonderland: Inversion literary technique Inversion, sometimes termed anastrophe, in narrative genre and speech, the dialectical reversing of the usual sequence of the words and phrases of a sentence. In a literal context, it refers to nonsensical order of things, which could be arrangement of a setting, occurrence of events, or breakaway from reality. The most profound illustrations of inversion in the text, Alice in Wonderland¸ are the ethereal dreams and looking glass. Carroll's world is entered through the mirror and dreams, the former being the true embodiment of the latter. Carroll's work differs from fantasy fiction in that the disruptive element is brought into daily life through this entry fall into the reversed reality. The reflection in which the counterpart appears and occasionally appears, alone or in groups, is the primary genre of nineteenth-century weird narratives using mirrors. Carroll's magic mirror, on the other hand, is utilized as an entrance rather than an exit, and its narrative is built around the description of the "mirror world of the Looking-Glass House (29)." As a result, the human person approaches the mirror, which becomes a metaphor for a whole other world with an entirely different order. Nothing in Wonderland is predictable; in fact, it is often the polar opposite. The animals compete, but they run in a circle and all come to a complete halt at the same time. Alice, who considers herself a nice little child, is often seen as a danger. For example, while attempting to converse with the Mouse, she terrifies the animal, and subsequently, the Pigeon misidentifies Alice as a snake trying to retrieve her eggs (72). The March Hare gives Alice wine during the tea party, despite the fact that they are out of wine. The workers are redoing the white roses in the

Last Name 2 yard. Furthermore, in Chapter 12, when the King requests that the jury ponder their judgment, the Queen of Hearts argues, "Sentence first—verdict afterwards (176)." Naturally, some of these inversions are misunderstood by characters in Wonderland. For example, in Chapter 6, the Cheshire Cat convinces Alice that dogs are not insane by stating, "A dog growls when it is furious and wags its tail when it is happy." Now, when I am happy, I growl, and when I am furious, I wag my tail. As a result, I am insane." Carroll's extensive use of parody is another example of inversion and reversal. Many of his lines are more than illogical or childish rephrasings of well-known poetry; they also undercut the works' original values or meanings.

Last Name 3 Works Cited Carroll, Lewis. Alice in Wonderland. Bath, UK, Parragon, 2010....