While the novel was being written Alice imitations of this period embody the golden age of Carroll 's influence on popular literature. So at the beginning of the story Alice falls asleep on her sister 's lap on the riverbank. “We fancy that any real child might be more puzzled than enchanted by this stiff, overwrought story”. Throughout Alice 's dream she meets a lot of new people including talking animals which don’t phase her when they talk to her. One of the characters that Alice gets to meet is the Queen. “I don 't want to be anybody 's prisoner. I want to be a Queen”. The queen is very nice to Alice at first but then the queen wants to kill …show more content…
In the book, Corkran reasserts the very didacticism that Carroll satirizes in the Duchess 's song: "Speak roughly to your little boy, And beat him when he sneezes: He only does it to annoy, Because he knows it teases." The Alice novel was accessible to all readers even the parodist. Some of the modern critics to Carroll’s work out of the realm of childhood interpretation. “Michael Hancher has also pointed out Tweedledum and Tweedledee 's strong resemblance to Tenniel 's drawings of John Bull.” The novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland illustrate for us today some of th ways that Carroll 's nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century readers responded to and resisted the Alice narratives ' influential ideologies of gender, class, and