Research Paper On Alice In Wonderland

Alice in wonderland was written in the Victorian age this was a time of extreme contradiction and a period of scientific discoveries that changed the world as we know it. To understand Alice we must take a close examination of the trends, culture, and philosophy of the Victorian period for my interpretation of Alice’s encounters in throughout her adventures in Wonderland. As you might imagine, this will open Alice up to various areas that I can focus on and approach in this paper. Taking a historical approach to analyzing Alice in wonderland is the only way to rightly look at this classic piece of children’s literature. It is extremely useful for us to remember that Alice in Wonderland was written during a specific time period that is the Victorian period and knowing that this period had its own specific concerns and habits. In this Paper I plan to explore a few of the major trends in Alice historical critic of the Victorian age.

There does seem to be in the book a lot of evidence that Dodgson was not overly fond of the Queen. This is made plain by the extreme violence assigned to the “aristocracy” of Wonderland as expressed by the characters of the Duchess and the Queen as well as the ridiculous proceedings in regards to the Trial. The fact that in Alice in Wonderland they always “Sentenced first, and then came the verdict”; and indeed, the United Kingdom’s justice system at the time was in a terrible state. It is evident that Carroll found this as a troubling problem. Alice in Wonderland at times seems like it should belongs perhaps more to the genre of Political Satire than a children’s book, because of the way he depicts the crown and its