Alice In Wonderland Theme Analysis

Alice in Wonderland- Theme Essay Many have read the story about a young girl named Alice that experiences many changes at the beginning of the story. At the beginning she is with her sister down the bank and she begins feeling terribly bored and sleepy, she tries to peek into her sister’s book which does not seem interesting to her at all because there are no pictures. She suddenly sees a rabbit wearing a robe with a pocket watch and follows it into a rabbit hole, then full of curiosity, she follows the rabbit down the hole, at the beginning she is her normal self, after snooping around, she drinks a drink that says “DRINK ME” and becomes very microscopic, the eats a cake that says “EAT ME” and becomes very wide, and a little after becoming …show more content…
Indeed those words are being used but there is a bigger picture than sexuality, Lewis is trying to concentrate in the fact that the door, when she was in her original size was too small for her and when she shrunk that it was too big. He was trying to emphasize that change in her size, that we are not content of how we are until we receive something different and until then we realize that we want to still maintain the same qualities that we already have in this case Alice wants to return to her original body size. This returns to the fact that we learn what we want to become through experiencing change, and what we are comfortable with does shape our …show more content…
At the end her sister also started reading more into the book and trying to picture herself just as Alice would, “then lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood”. (Lewis) Many could argue that Alice in Wonderland has different themes, but just like De Rooy argued that the main theme was growing up it all relates back to being about finding her identity. Her experiences help her acknowledge that that there will be changes when she grows up, and she will have to adapt to them. There is indeed undoubtedly the presence or interpretations of other themes such as feminism, sexuality, and growing up, but they all go back to the main theme of identity. Alice is proving to herself and others who she really is, going out of her ordinary ways to realize in a dream that she is not another kid of her age she is herself, and to that it might take time just as in her dream to build up her character and personality, but she will eventually be identified as a person of her