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As we read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and The Island of Dr. Moreau, we enter into two unique worlds of imagination. Both Lewis Carroll and H.G. Wells describe lands of intrigue and mystery. We follow Alice and Pren*censored* into two different worlds where animals speak, evolution is tested, and reality is bent until it nearly breaks. It is the masterminds of Lewis Carroll and H.G. Wells that take these worlds of fantasy and make them realistic. How do these two great authors make the unbelievable believable? Both Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and The Island of Dr. Moreau float in between a dream world and reality, which makes the real seem unbelievable and the unbelievable seem real. In H.G. Wells's The Island of Dr. Moreau, we see right from the beginning that imagination and reality are blended together to create an air of confusion. In the introduction we are told that Pren*censored* disappeared for eleven months. When he was found, he told a story that no one would believe. "He gave such a strange account of himself that he was supposed demented (pg. 1)." So right from the beginning we do not know what to believe. Later in the story, Pren*censored* is picked up by the Ipecacuanha. On this ship there a
This puts the reader directly into the world of fantasy and imagination. " The Cat then gives the explanation. Another example of this is when Alice meets the Cheshire-Cat. " Second, Pren*censored* walks out into the woods to get away from the puma's crying. It is hear that he gets a good look at one of the deformities for the first time. 'We called him Tortoise because he taught us,' said the Mock Turtle angrily. It is this fuzzy line between the believable and the unbelievable that Lewis Carroll and H. Invisible things seemed watching me (pg. You grant that?' 'I suppose so,' said Alice. re deformed and strange men riding with Montgomery. "The thicket about me became altered to my imagination.
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