Growing Up And Dreams In Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carrol, is a book about a young girl, Alice, who ventures off into a make-believe world in her dreams. Carroll wrote Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in 1865. Alice visits Wonderland where she meets many creatures and encounters experiences that are the complete opposite of the life she is used to, but also may have a connection to her life and how she is growing up and the time she is growing up in. Alice being a young child when she has her dream about Wonderland, many of her encounters may represent how she feels as she is growing up and the experiences she may be coming across.
Alice’s adventures start when she is sitting on a bank with her sister when she sees a white rabbit, but it is wearing …show more content…

Life was more traditional, and elegant, and people typically did not show out and act crazy, no matter what you were going through. Alice having a chaotic dream may resemble the chaos she feels around her, and as she is growing up, that she unable to express. In the beginning of the adventures, when Alice sees the rabbit and follows it out of curiosity, that may be the resemblance of a child seeing something or someone and following after them, not thinking about the consequences of their actions, as Alice did not think about what may happen if she followed the rabbit down the rabbit hole. When Alice grows bigger and smaller, she begins to think she is no longer Alice, but someone else. Alice’s trouble with talking and being friends with the animals could represent the trouble with making new friends and getting along with people. Alice’s change in growth and her thought to being someone but herself may resemble the time in a child’s life where they feel they are out of place, and trying to find themselves. When she encounters the chaotic tea party with the Mad Hatter, Door Mouse, and March Hair, this could be another example of the chaos in her life. It could resemble an event going on in her life, and how she feels it is really happening. When she met the caterpillar, this could be someone such as a grandparent or someone wise who typically gives advice …show more content…

He could have been influenced by this to demonstrate the chaos children were experiencing as they are growing up, and seeing the fighting as all of the out of whack and chaos in her dream. Carroll could have also had a simple influence such as a close child that he told stories to and decided to make one delightful story into a book. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was very well written and used many disruptive details throughout the book to capture the scenes and setting of the

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