Blog 11/9

Reminders--

*Test Wednesday

*11/10 have questions for test








*My revised paper topic*

I'm going to look more closely at the relationship between dreams and mobility. In "Through the Looking Glass" one of the more important themes seems to be the relationship between how we move through the dream. Note the significance of the chess pieces. Alice begins as a pawn which, chess players will know, that can only move forward one square at a time except the first move in which the chess player
can move two. What is so interesting about the pawn though is that upon reaching the "end" it becomes a queen and is able to move . This is why the queen characters in the story could run so fast compared to Alice. They have this freedom of mobility to move from one end to another either in a linear or diagonal fashion. The question of Separation, Initiation, and Return also seems useful to this study. Could I view leaving the first square as Separation? The passing through the board as initiation? And finally the transformation into a omni-directional mobile queen as return? The use of separation, initiation, and return could even be looked at more broadly as falling asleep (separation), dreaming (initiation), and waking back up (return). This view of the process as cyclic seems to lend itself to the thought that to make an end is to make a new beginning. Could the mobility found in dreams contribute to the formation of our identity?
I plan to note a couple instances from the Alice texts (don't forget the drifting down the river part), "Row Row Row, Your Boat", a few quotes on the subject of dream, and perhaps some other cool things! It should be an interesting pursuit for sure.