We're All Mad Here: The No-Nonsense Guide to Living with Social Anxiety

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Fear is a prevalent form of social control that is REALLY hard to break – even though, as Alice claims, they are ‘only a pack of cards’. Plato believed that everything in existence in our world (which is often referred to as the world of experience), exists as an Idea or perfect form in another plain of existence.

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I could tell you my adventures–beginning from this morning,’ said Alice a little timidly: ‘but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then. If we extend this Alice in Wonderland metaphor then, for the dormouse, treacle is the opium of the people.Cookies collect information about your preferences and your devices and are used to make the site work as you expect it to, to understand how you interact with the site, and to show advertisements that are targeted to your interests. It means much the same thing,” said the Duchess, digging her sharp little chin into Alice’s shoulder as she added, “and the moral of that is—‘Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves. A. in Creative Writing and Musical Theatre from the University of Southern California and an MLIS from San Jose State University. Johnny Depp’s portrayal of the Mad Hatter is one of his best roles, and he plays this iconic character in Tim Burton’s rendition of Alice in Wonderland.

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The cardboard monarchy and their followers have one thing in common; they all belong to the same deck of cards, they all belong to the same group. Tim Burton is known for his crazy, fantastical and whimsical approach to films, which comes across in the most colorful way in his version of Alice in Wonderland, as well as Through the Looking Glass, and he has taken certain creative liberties with the story so Johnny Depp’s Mad Hatter has some lines that are not in the original work. This is a quote from Lewis Carroll, but it is not from any of the ‘Alice’ tales; it is from his poem “The Hunting of the Snark”. Well, I sha’n’t go, at any rate,” said Alice; “besides, that’s not a regular rule: you invented it just now. It was all very well to say “Drink me,” but the wise little Alice was not going to do that in a hurry.

You can draw water out of a water-well,” said the Hatter; “so I should think you could draw treacle out of a treacle-well–eh, stupid?

we’re all mad here. I’m mad. THE CHESHIRE CAT QUOTES “we’re all mad here. I’m mad.

If we want to take it a step further, we can consider the dormouse as a symbol of the proletariat so often mentioned by Karl Marx. The existence of Non-Being is probably one of the main reasons why the world of Alice was dismissed as one of absolute nonsense. Through the eyes of society, one who questions – even and perhaps especially the seemingly basic things – may be labelled ‘mad’.If everybody minded their own business,” the Duchess said, in a hoarse growl, “the world would go round a deal faster than it does. I -- I hardly know, sir, just at present -- at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then. Alice in Wonderland is one of the best works of all time, and every one of its adaptations has been very well known, especially some characters, like Mad Hatter and the Cheshire cat, who say some of the most amazing things both in the books and the show and movie. Therefore, in a Heraclitean world (and in Wonderland), opposites (being and non-being) co-exist peacefully. In that direction,” the Cat said, waving its right paw round, “lives a Hatter: and in that direction,” waving the other paw, “lives a March Hare.