What Really Happened to Alice in Wonderland

In Carroll’, Alice in Wonderland, the passage down the rabbit hole is one of the first changes that Alice goes through. Alice leaps down the rabbit hold in search for a cure for her boredom, it is a discovery of her curiosity. The rabbit hole symbolises the journey into the unknown, which is much like the transition into puberty. Alice tries to take control of her situation, “she tried to look down and make out what she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything”, however she is unable to and gives in to the changes that are occurring. During Alice’s fall she encounters many strange things, these strange things relate to the changes that occur in your body when going through puberty. Her fall down the rabbit hole rushes Alice into losing her much needed

I had survived the first part of the harsh weathers, I was hoping that it would be over before it was. I knew that I had no chance of survival. I hadn't eaten for six days, I had no water unless it rained, but then it would just freeze by he next day. I had been through so much and then then came the day were I knew I had to leave. It was early winters morning in this strange place that I had been, There were no noises but some faint wind from the few trees in sight. I stretched and got out of my tree to find something to eat like I did every morning, knowing I wouldn’t find anything, but then I thought I saw something in a bush. I had a rush of excitement wishing it would be food. Then I saw a blurred object approaching me, I blinked my eyes once or twice and then that blurred object wasn't blurry anymore. I saw something that I couldn't believe, It was a bunny! An actual bunny in the flesh! I slowly walked towards the creature, I could hear my stomach grumbling. When

From the moment she sees the White Rabbit taking his watch from his waistcoat pocket, Alice tries to understand the logic of Wonderland. None of the rules that she has been taught seem to apply in Wonderland. The characters in Wonderland have no sense of manners and respond to her questions with answers that make no sense. For example, the Mad Hatter asks the questions, “Why is a raven like a writing desk?” (Alice 51). Alice assumes he is asking a riddle and she begins to try to answer it, thinking the Hatter would not ask a riddle without knowing the answer. When Alice is unable to figure out the riddle, the Hatter explains that there is no answer. He does not explain why he asked the riddle, he simply says, “I haven’t the slightest idea” (Alice 53). In which Alice replies, “I think you might do something better with the time, than waste it in asking riddles that have no answers” (Alice 53). The Hatter then responds with a lecture on Time, which he depicts as a person. Time being depicted as a person makes no logical sense to Alice. In the end, Alice rebels during the trial scene when the King said “Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court” (Alice 88). Alice objects to the absurd nature of the trial saying, “Who cares for you? You’re nothing but a pack of cards!” (Alice 91). This final scene is the end of her dream, and she wakes up with her head in her sister’s lap.

We walked through the tunnel for about 15 minutes and found a magical place, it looked like a forest. We all looked around in amazement at the sight we were seeing. It was so beautiful I couldn’t stop looking. I saw a bunny that was red and had three eyes, it was kind of weird, yet the bunny was pretty. We kept walking through this magical place and we heard a cry.

A prophecy once stated that a blond warrior was going to arrive in Wonderland, to fight the Red Queen’s infamous Jabberwocky. The conflict between the Red Queen and White queen would immediately end after the death of the Jabberwocky. As each day passed by, I always observed the Red queen carefully while she punished my friends among other animals for no adequate reason. Due to how my features allowed me to become invisible at any command, I was was able to perceive everything that was going on in Wonderland, which is why I was the first one to know of her arrival. As I got ahold of the information of how a certain blond girl who had dropped years ago in Wonderland had fallen down the rabbit hole, I immediately rushed over there.

Alice can be very childish, but throughout the story, she encounters many animals with human qualities that make her change her perspective of the world she lives in. The main obstacle in Alice's life is growing up. As she grows up, she looks at situations in a very distinctive way, such as the moment when alice meets the March Hare, The Mad Hatter, and the Dormouse. By the time the story is over, Alice is already a grown up because of all the experiences she confronted such as, the mad tea party, the encounter with the caterpillar smoking a hookah pipe, also Alice's encounter with the Red Queen during the croquet game and the trial.

I decided to walk up to the house on the hill, where Nancy stays. I walked up the stairs, holding tightly to the railing as the ground was awful slippery. I finally reached the top and noticed the light from the attic room turn on. When I walked to the door, I noticed it was slightly open. For fear that something might have happened to Nancy, I walked inside. I could hear muffled laughter of a woman from upstairs. The floors creaked as I walked toward the stairs. The lights were dimly lit and every once in a while, they would flicker. "Nancy?" I called out as I placed my foot on the first step. The muffled laughter

In the novel, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the main character, Alice, undergoes quite a change. During the time the novel was published, parts of the world were in the victorian era. The Queen at the time was Queen Victoria, in which the era was named after. During this era, knowledge, class and reason were greatly valued, and stressed. This time period ended in the year of Queen Victoria’s death. Throughout the novel, there are many ways that show how Alice begins to understand the world in adult terms, matures, and grows.

Alice following the rabbit down the hole shows the curiosity she, like most other children, has. She follows the rabbit throughout Wonderland, almost as if it’s a guide. The rabbit can also be seen as an older figure in Alice’s life that sparks the curiosity into adulthood for her. Alice sees something intriguing in that person and their being older that gets her curious as to what it might be, just as a talking rabbit might spring her interest. She looks up to them and wants to have the qualities they do. Alice follows the rabbit as she would this person to quench her curiosity and see exactly what is going on in this part of life that Alice is so far naive to.

Much of these three stories revolve around the famine for power and authority by either the characters themselves, or those surrounding them. In Alice in Wonderland, Alice looks for power to find logic in the nonsense world of Wonderland. At many points in the book, she wonders what her true identity really is: “Who in the world am I?” (18). Alice’s loss of identity even brings her to obey the White Rabbit’s orders when he thinks Alice is his maid: “Why Mary Ann, what are you doing out here? Run home this moment and fetch me a pair of gloves and a fan! Quick, now!” (31). Here, the little girl is so unsure of her identity that she believes she really could be the White Rabbit’s maid. Alice begins using food as a method to gain power, however,

“Okay back to what I was saying, after jumping down the rabbit hole, I landed on my feet and still saw the White rabbit, But I started to look around and just wondering where was I? I looked back to see if I could see the rabbit but I couldn't. After minutes I started noticing some different sizes of the doors and I was figuring a way to get out because I came up with nothing. After trying to figure out how to get out, I saw a bottle that said Drink me. I just stared at it and didn't know what to do but just standing there I took one bottle and Boom! I grow way smaller so I walked over to

Lewis Carroll's use of puns and riddles in Alice in Wonderland help set the theme and tone. He uses word play in the book to show a world of warped reality and massive confusion. He uses such play on words to reveal the underlying theme of ‘growing up', but with such an unusual setting and ridiculous characters, there is need for some deep analyzing to show this theme. The book contains many examples of assonance and alliteration to add humor. Carroll also adds strange diction and extraordinary syntax to support the theme.

The Victorian Era was a time where not many ethical ideals and moral standards were sustained. Yet, it is also an Era in which modern society uses to make advancements in both humanity, and philosophy. Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland, was a novelist who wrote pass his time. He wrote further in the future of the "common" Victorian Era. The ideology he presents in Alice in Wonderland is conducive to an individual attempting to bring attention to the deteriorating mental health and humane conditions in Victorian-Era England. Alice is representative of a normal child in everyday-Victorian England. This child, Alice, has not been exposed to the likes of diversity, but instead solidarity. The type of solidarity that is all too prevalent throughout the Victorian Era, primarily in the upbringing of children during this time. Children in Victorian Era England were taught to be followers of the norms already established by adults, and to ask no questions. These types of parameters placed restraints on children growing-up during this time; not only physical restraints, but also mental restraints, such as their imaginations'. Carroll was no stranger to this ideal or the likes of this concept; In fact, he constructed Alice in The Wonderland with this in mind, to defy the imaginative 'norm' of Victorian-Era England. He created a character that dreamt of falling down a rabbit hole into another universe. This dream or imagination becomes so vivid in his novel that the

    Everybody dreams during his lifetime. It is a part of human nature that we experience almost everyday. Dreams can be lost memories, past events and even fantasies that we relive during our unconscious hours of the day. As we sleep at night, a new world shifts into focus that seems to erase the physical and moral reality of our own. It is an individual's free mind that is privately exposed, allowing a person to roam freely in his own universe. As we dream, it seems that we cannot distinguish right from wrong or normal from abnormal and, therefore, commit acts that we would not have done in a realistic society. Perhaps Lewis Carroll, author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll endures as one of the most iconic children 's books of all time. It remains one of the most ambiguous texts to decipher as Alice 's adventures in Wonderland have created endless critical debate as to whether we can deduce any true literary meaning, or moral implication from her journey down the rabbit hole. Alice 's station as a seven year old Victorian child creates an interesting construct within the novel as she attempts to navigate this magical parallel plain, yet retain her Victorian sensibilities and learn from experience as she encounters new creatures and life lessons. Therefore, this essay will focus on the debate as to whether Alice is the imaginatively playful child envisaged by the Romantics, or a Victorian child whose imagination has been stunted by her education and upbringing.