Alice's_Adventure_in_Wonderland

When we think “Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland”, we think about her strange adventures through a rabbit hole, how she doesn’t think twice before she eats or drinks anything but we never knew the real stories behind everything. Lewis Carroll was an author, logician, deacon, mathematician, and photographer. He wrote Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland in the 19th century. During the Victorian Era, artists did lots of studies on young children, mainly girls. That’s how Lewis Carroll got his idea of the character, Alice. He named Alice after a young girl named Alice Liddell, just like Carroll himself, grew up in a big family with tons of brothers and sisters, that it was hard to stand-out. In the beginning of the story, Alice follows a rabbit. The paranoid, late rabbit represents how Carroll is aging during the Victorian age. When Alice falls into the rabbit hole it shows how the Victorian age would be like if it was turned upside down. Back then, they didn’t have a “middle-class”. It was either you were upper-class (meaning rich) or lower class (meaning poor). The Middle-class term spread all around the world in 1832. After, she finally hits the ground, she meets animals who talk. In 1931, Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland was banned in China because they didn’t believe animals should speak human words, or be at our level. The Characters in the novel (especially the animals) have strong, rude behaviors, and talked about constitution. They mocked the Victorian age, and people. Telling stories before bed were traditional in all households during the Victorian age. Having an eating disorder in real life gave him inspiration to create a character like Alice to drink strange bottles, and turn into different shapes. Everything Alice ate, or drank, something happened to her, eating was a sing (at that point for Alice). The garden she was always trying to get to was the Garden of Eden. Games, parties, dancing were important at events, and there would always be tea. The tea parties from the Victorian age was different from the tea party scene, in the book, with the Mad Hatter. Everything was unusual, and crazy. Lewis Carroll had a dual personality and it shows a lot in Alice’s personality. When Alice talks to herself, and sometimes pretends to be two people speaking in two different voices. And when she accuses the Queen of Hearts of cheating, when she cheated herself, in the game of Croquet. The Queen of Hearts was Queen Victoria at the time but both had different personalities. The Queen of Hearts was better then the kind when it came to size, and power, at the time.