The Importance Of Adulthood In Alice In Wonderland

After the Romantic period Childhood was created and a division between adult and child was formed. In William Blake’s poem The Lamb great divine and supreme being of children is portrayed.”I a child an thou a lamb” connects children with innocence portrays them to be God like. This theme of a perfect, pure child was created and idolized during the Romantic era, however, the definition of a perfect mature adult was not addressed. In Lewis Carroll’s novel Alice in Wonderland, Alice is placed in wonderland the middle land between Childhood and Adulthood. Alice finds herself in a “good deal frightened at the sudden change,” (22) of a child to an adult. Children are unprepared and frighten for this sudden change because of, adulthood not happening …show more content…
This causes the definition of what is a perfect adult to be not cohesive and clouds the child's own personal belief of what they are expected to be in order to be identified as an individual part of the adulthood community in society. Even with the training for adulthood being passed to schools. These academic institutions aren’t focused on just preparing children for adulthood, and even when they do put the focus on teaching us the mentality of a perfect adult, it is hidden within a lecture or related to an economic problem, not explicitly taught. In the rare occasion that the mentality of a successful mature adult is taught, it is based off of what the teacher’s interpretation of a model adult or what the teacher wishes they were taught before entering adulthood. Ultimately making their lesson on adulthood basis and outdated. Which makes relying solely on schools to prepare students to become a mature adult …show more content…
This is because adults especially parents guide children to be the model adult by telling them to not make the mistakes they made or forcing them to shy away from making actions that the adult made himself and regret. Personal my parents brainwashed me to think the model adult inhibits the positive counterpart traits of their personal negative traits. Which makes it so that I have no physical perfect adult role model since I am taught certain people hold traits that are admirable and necessary in order to be a mature adult. But, I am also taught that that same person is not a full complete role model because they hold negative unadmirable traits. Consequently, I have no clear definition or role model of a mature flawless adult, since the definition is flawed because it demands, unrealistic and unattainable