Off with her head! the Queen shouted at the top of her voice. Nobody moved. phrase is a direct citation of Shakespeare s Richard III [35, 3, IV]:
GLOUCESTER I thou protector of this damned strumpetthou me of 'ifs'? Thou art a traitor: with his head! Now, by Saint Paul I swear, will not dine until I see the same.and Ratcliff, look that it be done: rest, that love me, rise and follow me. are a lot of other allusions to Shakespeare s works, for example [LC, chapter 9]:
Oh, 'tis love,' tis love, that makes the world go round! scholars accept it to be the allusion to A Midsummer Night's Dream [32, IV, 1]. appropriate example is the conclusion made by Cheshire Cat when he mat Alice for the first time:
How do you know I'm mad? said Alice.
You must be, said the Cat, or you wouldn't have come here. < span align = "justify"> reminds us the lines of Shakespeare s Macbeth [34, I, 5]:
Messenger king comes here to-night.MACBETH 'rt mad to say it: not thy master with him? who, were't so, have inform'd for preparation.
2.3 Stylistic functions of allusion in the eccentric tale Alice s Adventures in Wonderland
In the first chapter we have already examined various functions of allusion. Some of them we can observe and analyze on the examples from Lewis Caroll s tale Alice s Adventures in Wonderland. They are: formation; on the authors subtext; of time category; function; we should examine the above mentioned functions in details.main function executed by allusion in Caroll s Alice s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass <# "justify"> s The Golden Key [30]. The poetry under the same title was firstly published in 1861 in the book called Victoria Regis, but his famous allegory tale The Golden Key was published only in 1867 in the book Dealings with the Fairies <# "justify"> s friends liked to read his works before the publication so Caroll could be familiar with most of them [23, p.22]. Through the Looking Glass <# "justify"> s Phantastes <# "justify"> s worked out a theory concerning Alice s Adventures in Wonderland as the ideological continuation of Don Quixote.Gardner mentioned the allusion to Dickens The Cricket on the Hearth in Chapter 1 of Through the...
