Research Paper On Alice In Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland
One of the well-known Walt Disney Animated Classics series is Alice in Wonderland, which is based primarily on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name, Lewis Carroll. This book depicts the overbearing Victorian society with a great sense of humor; it has symbolized layers of meaning regarding Victorian society: the preoccupation with food and drink and coercive utilitarian theory of education.
As Alice always tried to find something to eat and felt hungry during the whole journey to the Wonderland, most people dealt with starvation and malnutrition due to an enormous shortage of food during the 1830s and 1840s. Food and drink even takes over the human body as a bottle labeled “Drink Me,” and cookies labeled “Eat Me” alter Alice’s size. The author himself suffered from the hunger, which is why eating and drinking play

Throughout Alice’s journey to Wonderland, she refers to her lessons and education; however, the information and message were totally useless like counting miles down till the center of earth, which satirized education during the Victorian era. Also, Alice’s answer towards the Caterpillar’s question, ‘Who are you?,” shows how overbearing the education was and how children at that time were confused because Alice finds herself barely replied to that question about who she is. Furthermore, education for the rich during this era treated children as miniature adults and emphasizes the excellence of manners; some of them might be even shown as empty formalities and vanity. This social convention is illustrated in Alice in Wonderland that Alice calls the Caterpillar as ‘sir,’ and, at the stupidest tea party with the Hatter and others, the Hatter told Alice, “it’s very rude to sit down without being invited,” when she sits at the table, and she couldn’t even take a slip until others have a “clean cup” to