When He Was To Wake Alice's Existence

Religion has been structured around the theory of an unknown force dictate our every move. Every step forward has been characterized by an additional force, whose abilities consist of the power to tamper with the universe this includes the individuals who also inhabit it. This raises the notion that no one person has the ability exert his or her on free will in choice of direction they wish to take in their life. This challenges the foundations of life, ultimately questioning the realms of true personhood, the realism of self-control, and the reality of true existence. In Lewis Carroll’s novel, Through the Looking-Glass, the author uses the chess game, a metaphor of life to establish the idea that life is prearranged by a higher being through …show more content…
In Alice’s response to Tweedledum's claim that she is not real, she exclaims, "‘You’d be nowhere. Why, you’re only a sort of thing in his dream!’ ” (197). When the King was to wake Alice would “be nowhere,” which means that Alice is a figment of the Red King’s dream. The Red King in this scenario represents the presence of godlike being, whose abilities include determining whether Alice actually exists or does not. Therefore, this intensifies the slippery hold Alice has on the reality of life. Tweedledee’s suggestion questions the reality of life, and poses the notion that can easily be taken slip away in a matter of seconds by a high being. Alice is just a “thing in his dream!“ which questions the stability of reality itself, complicating that the complexities of life. Opening up the implication that no person actually exists, but through the divine imagination of God. In conjunction with Tweedledee’s claims, when back home Alice reflects on her experience, she mentions, “Now, Kitty, lets consider who it was that dreamed it all…He was part of my dream, of course—but then I was part of his dream too! […] Which do you think it was?” (272). When Alice examines, [whose dream it was] she poses some uncertainty that it was her dream, which suggest that she could in fact have been apart of the Red King’s dream. This uncertainty provides the theory that Alice is in fact a real human in the novel. Being unable to comprehend her own existed, prompts the claim that in the flash of the moment she is no longer apart of God’s mind. Therefore, it means she was initially nothing and becomes as she once was, which was nothing. When Alice said “I was part of his dream” supports that in a single moment she was nothing but a fabrication of a mind of God. Alice self-awareness brings her to the realization she only an illusion in the conscious of