In Alice In Wonderland; The Mad Hatter asks Alice throughout the movie...
"Have you any idea why a raven is like a writing desk?"
~Later, towards the end~
Alice asks, "Hatter, why is a raven like a writing desk?"
Mad Hatter: "I haven't the slightest idea."
Then Alice disappears back home.
So why is a raven like a writing desk?
Ravens symbolizes death and to me Writing symbolizes
freedom.
But when you think about it ravens fly-- come and go as they please. Writers feel like that when they write at a writing desk--
come and go as they please.
So maybe there's the answer...
Ravens are free, and a writing desk is a place to be free.
But maybe a raven is also like a writing desk because most good poems deal with some type of grief, or joy...Every good poet deals with issues with life and the grief that comes with death. Every great writer has troubles-- look at; Edger Allen Poe, Dylan Thomas, and Emily Dickerson, just to name a few. Edger often wrote of ravens and drank, Dylan also drank, and Emily was afraid to go outside. We all have troubles, but only a certain amount of people can write about them in poetry and make the words be so beautiful. So maybe in the movie there was no answer, but it all seems to random to have no answer. So here's my answer: Freedom and Troubles, Ravens have/deal with both as well as a writer at a writing desk.
Do you know why a raven is like a writing desk?
Because Edgar Allen Poe Wrote on Both
The riddle itself is pointless, it's meant to befuddle and confuse. Lewis Caroll, the author, actually got several inquiries and wrote this as a response:
"Enquiries have been so often addressed to me, as to whether any answer to the Hatter's Riddle can be imagined, that I may as well put on record here what seems to me to be a fairly appropriate answer, viz: 'Because it can produce a few notes, tho they are very flat; and it is nevar put with the wrong end in front!' This, however, is merely an afterthought; the Riddle, as originally invented, had no answer at all." (the mispelling of nevar, is another joke. spell it backwards...this was in Lewis' original letter also.)
Again, a joke... there's really no "real" answer to the Hatters riddle...but then again, that's what's made it such an interesting piece. A riddle posed by a madman has inspired so many readers to search for their own answer.
I do very much like your answer.
thank you.
Yeah, it seems as I stated that there is really no answer, just a question that keeps you on your toes..keeps you thinking. and thanks for sharing the explaniation. I didn't know there was one out there. I love hearing other people's ideas and thoughts on different subjects, that's why I repeat the question at the end of my thoughts.Thanks for taking the time to read this and for commenting. :) <3