In Wonderland, everyone, it seems, is just a little bit mad. It’s a dream world of fantasy relatively similar to the world we know, where white rabbits wear topcoats and hats, soldiers are cards and chess pieces, animals talk, potions can make you grow and cake can make you shrink, and where good triumphs over evil. “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary-wise; what it is it wouldn’t be, and what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?” This topsy turvy world of Alice’s imagination isn’t the result of madness, but rather intuitive genius. Her character has spawned an entire realm of being contrary to our own, existing in a way outside of reality but also starkly similar to it at the same time. How many of us can say the same? Of course the original media adaptation of Alice in Wonderland was the result of the ingenuity of one man: Walt Disney. He was an innovator who knew no boundaries—he merely scratched the surface of the child in each of us, coaxing those innocent dreams that only we can conquer out of our subconscious, and assuring us that we can achieve them. His enterprise serves as a testament to this idea, the revolutionary dream of one man who continues to touch the lives of generations of dreamers. Every dream that you dream will come true, “if you only have the power to pursue them”. He was stung by the splendor of dreaming, and made his come true.
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