Alice in Wonderland?

Question

It's been said that the author of Alice in Wonderland was on drugs he had written it. In the animated movie, there are supposed to be a lot of signs that relate to sleeping, dreaming, altered states of consciousness, and drug use. Does anybody who had seen it, know of any?

Answer 1

Actually, that has been shown to be a lot of nonsense, simply because the caterpillar smokes a hookah and the "Eat me." and "Drink me". However, the food and drink are common to fairytales and myths, including Persephone and the pomegranate seeds; the caution not to eat or drink anything should one encounter faeries; and as recently as "Pan's Labyrinth", in which the girl is warned to not eat anything. So, Alice's willing consumption is just one more temptation someone has given in to.

In 1951, Disney certainly would not have placed such signs/images in a film for families! You don't know anything about that time period if you think that's even a tiny bit possible. I have seen the film many times, and it is true to Lewis Carroll's nonsensical novel. If anyone thinks that fancifulness means drugs, I truly wonder about his or her attitude.

From Wikipedia:
Controversies and mysteries
The possibility of drug use
There has been much speculation that Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) used psychoactive drugs. However, there is no direct evidence that he ever did. It is true that the most common painkiller of the time – laudanum – was in fact a tincture of opium and could produce a "high" if used in a large enough dose. Most historians would admit Dodgson probably used it from time to time since it was the standard domestic painkiller of its day and was to be found in numerous patent medicines of the time, but there is no evidence he ever abused it or that its effects had any impact on his work. There is no factual evidence to support a suggestion that he smoked cannabis. However, many people regard Alice's hallucinations in the Wonderland, when surrounded by teas, mushrooms and smoking insects, as references to psychedelic substances. This suggestion of psychedelic drug use made him extremely popular to the counterculture of the 1960s and was a positive way of showing the mainstream that one of their most famous and highly regarded writers also used these forbidden substances. Grace Slick wrote a song, "White Rabbit," recorded with both The Great Society and Jefferson Airplane, which depicted Carroll's Alice in Wonderland as a psychedelic drug trip.
It also has been suggested that Dodgson suffered from lead poisoning, as it was common at the time, though no evidence supports this claim."

Since the author, who also was a mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman and photographer, was in a state of ill-health much of his life, it isn't likely that he would have destroyed it further with substance abuse. As is said, laudanum was a common remedy for pain and sleeplessness. Besides, would a "druggie" be able to produce works such as these?
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (includes Jabberwocky)
The Hunting of the Snark
Rhyme? And Reason? aka Phantasmagoria
A Tangled Tale
Alice's Adventures Under Ground
Sylvie and Bruno
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded
Three Sunsets and Other Poems
Pillow Problems
The Game of Logic
Symbolic Logic Part I. Part II published post-humously
An Elementary Treastise on Determinants, With Their Application to Simultaneous Linear Equations and Algebraic Equations
What the Tortoise Said to Achilles
Euclid and his Modern Rivals (1879)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_carroll

Here's another Wikipedia site that is about not only the 1951 animated film but also the many other versions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_In_Wonderland

Answer 2

I by no capacity felt rather scared by utilising it, however the story certainly ought to have a hidden darkness as maximum present day adaptions of the story have been of the horror form. in case you have a good time with being scared, you are able to try McGee's Alice workstation video activity. it rather is rather good yet slightly dated now, so in all probability you will hit upon it rather much less high priced. the activity narrates the story of Alice, some few years after the Wonderland adventures, she's grown dark and cynic and now she ought to trip a very twisted wonderland. Cheshire's Cat is very creepy.

Answer 3

Hmm, all of the time she is wonderland? Mushrooms are a good indicator. The caterpillar and the hookah of course. The drunk tea party.

Edit: The Mad Hatter in the book was suffering from mercury poisoning. The ones in the animated film at the tea party were obviously drunk. The hiccuping cross eyed dormouse confirmed that pretty well.

Just because he smoked a hookah that shot out colorful words, letters, and pictures out of his mouth while sitting on a giant mushroom was why the "nonsense" was said about the movie. That and when she eats food and grows or shrinks sounds pretty hallucinatory to me.

Answer 4

Some of it was and some of it wasn't. The mad Hatter was supposed to be someone suffering from Mecury posioning. There were two different books. Alice through the looking glass and Alice in Wondorland. I know that the song Go ask Alice is definately about drugs.