Comparing Alice In Wonderland 'And' A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court

In the novel’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll and “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court” by Mark Twain the authors suggest that human nature dictates their characters tendency to force other to bend to their version of reality. The main characters applied their knowledge, values, and logic to the world around them through the their experiences they found in the new worlds they faced. In the novel, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” the main character, Alice, applies her victorian values and logic into her actions and choices she made in Wonderland. Before Alice discovers the context of Wonderlandian society, she participates in a “caucus race” with the animals which concludes with no clear winner. The author sums up Alice's early preferences as he writes, …show more content…
… the Dodo suddenly called out, “The race is over!” … “But who has won ?” This question the Dodo could not answer without a great deal of -[thought, … At last the Dodo said, “Everybody has won, and all must have prizes.’ (Carroll 33)
The author portrays Alice’s belief that a game which concludes with a clear winner prevails in superiority in comparison to a game that concludes without an individual champion. In the passage Alice’s victorian values and logic lead her to regard the outcome of the race as unsatisfactory and bogus. Therefore she advises the animals in her favor of thinking and guided them in declaring a winner of the game even if they would have felt content without a clear