Now a day's reality comes in many different shapes and weaves itself into our everyday lives and surrounds us. It can be found all on the internet, television, and social media and people are really entertained by it. In fact, authors have used this reality entertainment in their texts in modern times and throughout history. The television series creator and writer, Charlie Booker, uses reality entertainment in the second episode of Black Mirror "White Bear". In this episode the woman has no memory records of events that caused her to be put in jail and being harassed by the community to no end, showing people's enjoyment of real life pain and humiliation. In the same manner, Lewis Carroll writes the "Jabberwocky" as a real-life character illustrating a believable creature. The two texts Black Mirror "White Bear" and "Jabberwocky" have a similar theme, Black Mirror creates a reality that is not real and "Jabberwocky" describes a fictional animal like it is a reality, but really is not.

In the Black Mirror there are several examples of creating a reality that isn't real. Throughout the story the audience is lead to believe that the main character's punishment is acceptable when she has to live through a day of hell and get brainwashed so that she can't remember it the next day. When the audience sees this they were amused by the fact that the woman was clueless because she got brainwashed and she couldn't remember anything that happened the day before. This happened every day for her and there was no escaping from it. They brainwashed her because they tried to create a reality for her because of what she did. She pleaded guilty to murder with her fiance while she was recording him torturing and killing the six year old girl. As the story goes on it was very coincidental that how she was recording the killing of the six year old girl and how she was being recorded by the audience when she was being tortured. It shows irony of the situation of how she got punished and what she did to the little girl. The woman is brainwashed enough that she can only remember very little things and certain objects projects a flashback for her based off of the episode "White Bear" in the Black Mirror.  She is brainwashed as one of her many punishments, the audience likes to see her in pain and enjoys her punishment because of it. 

Another example in the Black Mirror of creating a reality that isn't real is when the main character felt out of place in life. As she was trying to figure out what was happening she noticed that no one would talk to her and that people were chasing her with a fake guns. When she noticed that no one was talking to her she had a facial expression that she was so lost in what was happening in the world at the time. It could be a part of her getting brainwashed but it has to do with the creator of the show creating a reality for her so that she feels like that. Being out of place made her feel like she had no control over what was happening, and that was also shown on her face in the episode that she had lost all her power and it was stripped from her. When the other characters chased her with guns and tools she was running for her life. As soon as she got corned by the other characters they put the gun to her face and shot it, but nothing but confetti came out of the gun barrel. When she saw this she was confused to what was going on. The audience enjoyed watching the main character getting chased and the whole community isolate and humiliate her in front of everyone on national television. They enjoyed the feeling of her being lost and not in control of her life at the time. As if somebody planned it, from then on she started to realize that something was odd and began to regain some of her memory back. And as soon as she did they brainwashed her again. The reason why she felt lost and out of place and other characters were chasing her with fake guns was because it wasn't actually reality, it was a fake reality.

Another prime example of the Black Mirror creating a reality that is not real is the scene where the main character is strapped down to the chair and she is showed to the audience that is sitting in the stands giving a round of applause. It is almost like a live shooting of a reality television show. This lead the viewer to believe that the actions were really happening instead of it being a structured and created scene. In the Black Mirror "White Bear" the main character had a reality that was created for her. The creator of Black Mirror "White Bear" created a reality for the woman that consisted of things such as being brainwashed, not being able to have control of what happens next, confused to the things that are going on, and having a never ending punishment of torturing. The main character displayed confusion throughout the episode and was basically being manipulated with this reality the creator of the show invented. The woman will never be able to break this cycle unless she first is broken. This woman's punishment is a repercussion of the crime that she committed, she was accused of video recording her and her fiance killing a six year old child. Based on this episode the creator believes that the punishment the woman gets is acceptable and equivalent of the crime she committed. These examples demonstrates that the author tried to create a reality for the main character that wasn't real in the first place.

In the same manner as the Black Mirror "White Bear," Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky" illustrates the same theme throughout the story of reality that is not real. Lewis Carroll's word choice gives the reader the impression that the Jabberwocky was real. For instance, specifically when Lewis Carroll uses his word style well enough to give the reader the impression that the Jabberwocky is real when it really is not. An example of the author's word style is his vivid description of the Jabberwocky when he says things like "frumious Bandersnatch (Carroll 31)". "Frumious Bandersnatch (Carroll 31)" makes the reader think that the Jabberwocky was taking little children and eating them. Another illustration that the author uses his descriptive word choice is when he mentions that the Jabberwocky had "eyes of flame (Carroll 31)." The Jabberwocky had the eyes of a killer, they were flamey which indicates that it was an evil animal or it was filled with anger. There are several other examples that help rectify the authors word style such as "beware the jub jub bird", "oh frabjous day!", or "manxome foe (Carroll 31)". These are all examples of how the author Lewis Carroll uses his expressive word choice to make the audience or reader believe that what he is writing about is real even though it is not. 

Lewis Carroll's description is described so realistically that it takes something that is make believe and makes you think that. Lewis Carroll's description of the Jabberwocky is expressed in many different phrases. An example of a phrase that he uses to exemplify the realness of the Jabberwocky character is when Lewis Carroll says "jaws that bite, claws that catch (Carroll 31)." This examples explains the physical traits that the Jabberwocky displays. Another example of his lifelike descriptions of the Jabberwocky is when Lewis Carroll writes "eyes of flame" and "frumious Bandersnatch (Carroll 31)." This indicates that the Jabberwocky may have humanlike characteristics. This also shows how the Jabberwocky compares to a real animal because of how the author's choice of words makes it seem like the creature is real even though it is not. The reality that the author tries to create in the "Jabberwocky" is a false reality because of everything he talks about and describes about the Jabberwocky is not realistic. It is not realistic because the animal that is being described is a fictional character. These examples help the reader to buy into what is being described because his choice of words help create the illusion that the Jabberwocky is a real thing but it's all fake and made up. Lewis Carroll helps create the theme of creating a reality that is not real by the words he carefully chooses and the examples he uses in the text.

In conclusion, the two texts in Brooker's Black Mirror episode "White Bear" and Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky" share a similar theme that creating a reality that is not real. In the Black Mirror the main character has a reality that is created by the author that gives the viewer the impression that people can be easily manipulated. In the short story "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll, demonstrates how the author's word choice or style can project a reality from an imaginary truth. While reality can be seen in these texts, it can be coming into our lives without us knowing it. Humans fascination with creating a fake reality is an important part of making entertainment today because we love to see people in pain and escape our reality to join someone else's.

