Fictional stories when analyzed may have parallels in their plot and/or characters. Gulliver's Travels has many parallels to other stories in both its characters and its story line. ... This idea of characters smaller than normal carries over into many other fictional stories, two of which are Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. ... This pops up in stories across the board, but the most famous ones being Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, commonly shortened to just Alice in Wonderland, by Charles Lutwidge, and Charlotte's Web by E...

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The introductory female voiceover is interrupted by the character himself at the moment of pronominal identification: "But when he- that is, I" (Tilde Swinton's Orlando interjects, looking straight at the camera) - cam into the world (the voiceover continues), he was looking for something else. ... Thus, "the classic" functions as the discursive equivalent of Alice's "tiny golden key" in Wonderland, opening doors marked "authority", "truth", and "value". ...

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This also defines the entire style in which the novel is written, including the plots and the characters - especially the protagonist, Yossarian. ... Scheisskopf (meaning "shit head", which is an accurate comic description of the character) concentrates on his parades with ridiculous attention to detail which are irrelevant to the war. ... The dialogue is reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland, with the "Why? ... However, in Catch-22, the situations that the characters are put through are more outrageously bizarre, which in turn lead to the illogical arguments that plague the story throughout. ...

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