Author: britney (Page 1 of 7)

• There’s a theory that Alice in Wonderland is some sort of allegory about the usage of drugs. Her journey to Wonderland is a more different type of “trip”. (Hookah smoking caterpillar and his magic mushroom)
• In my reimagining of this story, Ace is a young adult who tries mushrooms for the first time and experiences a very wild psychedelic trip. Everything occurs in his imagination. He falls down the rabbit hole and lands at the foot of a fast paced rabbit. The rabbit takes off with Ace right on his tail and abruptly stops at a table with two vials of liquid, one red and one blue. The rabbit then explains that the red vial would instantly grant him the life he’d always wished to live. The blue vial would simply grant him an abundance of patience and determination. As one can imagine, he chose the easy path to success. The rabbit explains that Ace must follow him to meet the King of Hearts in order to be gifted the keys to success. Along his trip to meet the King in the land of Wonder, he constantly battles different characters all representing parts of who he is. With each encounter, he realizes that maybe the fast life isn’t better. He especially realizes this once he meets a blue butterfly, who would’ve shown up sooner had he chose the vial of blue liquid. He helps Ace realize that the real keys to a true successful and meaningful life lies within. You must have patience and determination in order to truly ascend to the life you’re meant to live. Realizing this, he chooses to ditch the rabbit and decides to follow the butterfly to meet the King, but with different intent. Once he meets the King of Hearts, he realizes that it is himself. This version of him is how he once was, an egotistical, manipulative narcissist. He explains that he is no longer interested in the fast life, the butterfly helped him realize the right way of doing things. However, the King, the embodiment of his ego, won’t let him succeed. He’s now faced with the challenge of defeating the King, which would rid of the worst parts of his character. And as most fairytales go, he is successful in the end.

I’ve decided to work on Aesop’s “The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing”. It tells a tale of a wolf trying to deceive the shepherd and his dog by dressing in a fallen sheep’s skin. The wolf was able to successfully deceive the lambs and got his dinner. However, he eventually was slaughtered by the shepherd. The message of this tale is how deceptive one’s appearance can be and how karma always finds a way. You never really know a person based off how they appear to be. It’s more about what’s inside, the personality. Therefore, I’ve decided to update the message and characters a bit by having the lambs recognize that the “sheep” is indeed a wolf. They will be wary of the “sheep” and this will protect them from meeting their demise.

Story Link: http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/WolShe.shtml