Workers such as the white rabbit represent a lower medium social class. Lewis used the rabbit as a character to show many monarchs opinion of the people. The people were meant to be pushed around because they would take it and always make sure to not be “late” for the wishes of their boss. Following the workers in the social scale is children. Children are considered a nuisance, especially when they have an imagination (Schatz 96). They are the lowest of the low because not only were kids to be seen and not heard, but children are also to constantly be obedient. Alice in Wonderland challenges readers to find their true identity through Alice questioning who she is. This may not come across as a relational allegory, but truly a person’s self-image
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First of all there is symbolic algebra. This is a new type of math being discovered in the 19th century. It gives symbolic meaning to the mushroom Alice needs to shrink or grow as well as her riveting conversation with the caterpillar. As Author Melanie Bayley describes it, symbolic algebra “served as the link between algebra, arithmetic, and Carroll’s beloved geometry,” and the main point of it is “restoration and reduction” (Bayley 2). In symbolic algebra the impossible is made possible because numbers that once didn’t exist, such as negative numbers, finally exist. Carroll is able to illustrate this idea through Alice growing and shrinking just from biting on different sides of the mushroom. Not only does this depict both reduction and restoration by her shrinking or growing back to regular size, but it also illustrates making something completely impossible, …show more content…
He owns many philosophers books pointing out the ideas of childhood insanity and still writes Alice in Wonderland (Schatz 99). He secretly emphasizes the idea of insanity because that is where his mind is. In his head he is still a child. This is why he spends so much time with children and fails to do normal adult things (Woolf 127). He always has an obsession with time whether in real life or in stories (Bloom 106). This contributes to the analysis of Alice in Wonderland because Lewis is essentially Alice (Bloom 8). The two are peas in a pod because of the way Carroll mirrors himself through Alice. His strengths are her strengths such as riddling and questioning. His weaknesses are her weaknesses such as insanity and temper. He gives Alice the older sister who portrays an image of his mother who dies when he is only a child. Every psychological argument plays into the fact that Lewis Carroll is crazy because he views Wonderland as the real world and Alice as himself (Bloom
First of all there is symbolic algebra. This is a new type of math being discovered in the 19th century. It gives symbolic meaning to the mushroom Alice needs to shrink or grow as well as her riveting conversation with the caterpillar. As Author Melanie Bayley describes it, symbolic algebra “served as the link between algebra, arithmetic, and Carroll’s beloved geometry,” and the main point of it is “restoration and reduction” (Bayley 2). In symbolic algebra the impossible is made possible because numbers that once didn’t exist, such as negative numbers, finally exist. Carroll is able to illustrate this idea through Alice growing and shrinking just from biting on different sides of the mushroom. Not only does this depict both reduction and restoration by her shrinking or growing back to regular size, but it also illustrates making something completely impossible, …show more content…
He owns many philosophers books pointing out the ideas of childhood insanity and still writes Alice in Wonderland (Schatz 99). He secretly emphasizes the idea of insanity because that is where his mind is. In his head he is still a child. This is why he spends so much time with children and fails to do normal adult things (Woolf 127). He always has an obsession with time whether in real life or in stories (Bloom 106). This contributes to the analysis of Alice in Wonderland because Lewis is essentially Alice (Bloom 8). The two are peas in a pod because of the way Carroll mirrors himself through Alice. His strengths are her strengths such as riddling and questioning. His weaknesses are her weaknesses such as insanity and temper. He gives Alice the older sister who portrays an image of his mother who dies when he is only a child. Every psychological argument plays into the fact that Lewis Carroll is crazy because he views Wonderland as the real world and Alice as himself (Bloom