How is Alice in Wonderland related to drugs?

Question

I think i heard that theirs a double meaning to the movie, could someone please explain it to me.

Answer 1

You REALLY don't know?

Ok, first off it's the BOOK that is drug related. Lewis Carroll was an addict. He was in and out of mental institutions most of his adult life! You really should read up on his life to understand his writtings.
The Caterpiller smokes opium, Alice take acid and gypsum tea, the Rabbit's on speed, the Madhatter is said to be on Pot or Morphine.

Come on! It's so obvious!


But then again, the Wizard of Oz is drug related too!

Answer 2

The only real relation, if there is any, is that during the late 60's, Jefferson Airplane wrote and performed a song titled "White Rabbit", which compared drug use with Alice's journey into Wonderland.

In the story, Alice eats and drinks several different items, which cause her to grow or shrink (including mushrooms). While in her shrunken size she meets a caterpiller smoking a hookah, has a tea party with a hare and a hatter, plays croquet with a deck of cards, and runs into a cat that appears and disppears at will. The white rabbit talks, and is usually in a hurry.

Lewis Carroll. the author of Alice, was the pen name of the Rev. Charles Dodgson, who was a professor of math at Oxford University, made up the story of Alice to amuse three young friends. Alice Liddell (who was the real Alice) was one of those friends.

Answer 3

It is reoputed that the author of the book was under the influence of some halucinogenic substance a great deal of the time and that much of his work was the result of that. Also the precence of the Caterpillar smoking a Hookha and the Mushrooms that Alice eats that change her size are supposed to be indications that the author had used mushrooms and was accutomed to smoking either Opium or Hashish. I do not know if there is any real truth to it, but considering the fairly bizarre description in that stroy, as well as a work he wrote called Zabberkowey it lends credibility to that possibility in many peoples minds.

Answer 4

Beside the fact various characters take drugs (for example, the hookah-smoking Caterpillar and Alice herself hallucinating she's big or small when she eats "magic mushrooms", think about this. The movie was created in a time when drugs were, indeed, popular and believed to be safe and the whole movie is a series of hallucinations and things that do not make sense together, much like the experience of taking hallucinagenic drugs is supposedly like. Also, as mentioned before, the white rabbit's nervous and hyper nature is symbolic of cocaine.

It was a "children's movie", but the underlying theme of drugs was made to attract older audiences such as hippies.

It was a sly marketing move, kinda like the Beatles with their song Lucy is the Sky With Diamonds (LSD). The hallucinagenic references are there, but covered just enough that you can't blame them for "corrupting youth". Crazy, eh?

Answer 5

Just for the fun of it listen to the song "White Rabbit" By Grace Slick and the Great Society, or Jefferson Airplane. You will understand then. I just googled the lyrics.


White Rabbit Lyric


White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall

And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall
Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call
Call Alice
When she was just small

When men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you've just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know

When logic and proportion
Have fallen softly dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's "off with her head!"
Remember what the dormouse said:
"Feed your head
Feed your head
Feed your head"

Answer 6

there has been plenty hypothesis that Lewis Carroll used psychoactive drugs, notwithstanding there's no direct info that he ever did. it is real that the main hassle-free painkiller of the time — laudanum — replaced into in actuality a tincture of opium and ought to offer a "severe" if utilized in a extensive sufficient dose. maximum historians might admit Lewis Carroll probable used it each and every so often, because of the fact it replaced into the usually happening kin painkiller of its day and replaced into to be present in numerous patent drugs of the time, yet there's no info he ever abused it or that its effects had any impact on his artwork. there's no actual info to help a tenet that he smoked hashish. notwithstanding, many human beings regard Alice's hallucinations interior the Wonderland, whilst surrounded with tips from teas, mushrooms and smoking bugs, (even with the indisputable fact that tea and mushrooms have been particularly hassle-free) as references to psychedelic components. This suggestion of psychedelic drug use made him very common to the counterculture of the Sixties and replaced right into a favorable way of showing the mainstream that one among their maximum in call for and intensely common writers extensively utilized those forbidden components. Grace Slick wrote a music, "White Rabbit," recorded with the two the super Society and Jefferson airplane, which depicted Carroll's Alice in Wonderland as a psychedelic drug holiday. hashish replaced into no longer an exceedingly common drug on the time and the caterpillar has been purported to have been smoking multiple multiple issues.

Answer 7

It's all an acid trip...magic mushrooms, call it what you will. Just_ine_credible is wrong by telling you that The Wizard of Oz is drug related. It was a d-r-e-a-m that Dorothy had, while she was unconscious from the window hitting her head. That's tornado related, not drug related!

Answer 8

yea, the dude who wrote the book was in a mental institution and he saw all the different reacations of different drugs on people. So when Alice ate or drank something it was basically him saying she got stoned! Read the autobiography of the author; you'll see what I mean.

Answer 9

Well, she ate mushrooms throughout the whole movie and talking cats and human cards, sounds like a bad trip to me!

Answer 10

Anytime you see the white rabbit wearing a big hat then you are on drugs!