The Role Of Behavior In Alice's Adventures In Wonderland By Lewis Carroll

The Victorian Notion through Behavior, Identity, and Social Class Transition from childhood to adulthood entails a firm identity. During the childhood of forming their identities, children undergo the reality in which their dreams toward an achievement fade away, lose their belief in themselves, and may consequently conduct an antisocial behavior. As a result, the antisocial behaviors increasingly became to threaten a notion of the Victorian society, described in ethics as the strict code of conduct, a rule that directs people’s moral behavior, and low tolerance of crime. (Laura Cenicola) The strict code of conduct became the preeminent aim of children’s literature, yet it was criticized as the psychological coercion imposed on children’s identity of what the Victorian parents intended. Unlike moral and didactic writers, Lewis Carroll, who loved to observe children’s behavior, wrote books to further their imagination world where they actualize their instinct of curiosity and adventures. Particularly, in ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’, the author challenges the Victorian society with its …show more content…
First, Alice’s representation of the Victoria-preferred attitudes show the discouragement against children’s individual identity to create. Alice depicts the emotional obsession with the appearance and attitudes is the causes of resembling the imposed identity. Instead, he emphasizes on the experiential education to form her own identity distinct from others. Also, the criticism against the Victorian hierarchical society is visible as the social classification separates them from the verbal communication and accelerates the tension among people. Alice’s unconscious superiority stands out towards the small