Alice in Wonderland

Author's name: Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll admired young children's innocent, unbiased approach to the world they live in. In Alice in Wonderland, he wanted to show the reader their perspective on the adult world, which includes the rules and social etiquette that adults adhere to, as well as the self-absorbed narcissism and bad habits they adopt in their daily behavior. He also wanted to best represent the struggle of children to survive in the turbulent adult world. In order to assimilate them, Alice was forced to abandon the open-mindedness that is a characteristic of young children. As it appears, adults need rules in their lives, and they follow them without considering the value of adhering to them. Their blind obedience leads them to adopt incomprehensible and sometimes arbitrary behavior. Alice experienced this in Wonderland. When she enters it, she encounters a way of living and thinking different from what she was accustomed to in her surroundings. There's a duchess trying to find logic in everything, and unfair trials for people who committed no crime. From her journey, Alice learned to understand the adult world to some extent. In fact, the little girl was experiencing maturity, evidenced by the physical changes she underwent repeatedly throughout the story. She was constantly growing and shrinking, each time adding something new to her knowledge. She understood that the inhabitants of Wonderland were "always angry," and that she had to adapt to strange rules and changing moods. Over time, she managed the situation optimally, daring to call the Queen of the Globes' orders nonsense and preventing executions. It's true that she faced doubts about her identity as she grew and shrunk, and this was clearly demonstrated by the question of the caterpillar sitting on the surface of the mushroom: "Who are you?" Alice was confused, and her ability to find a convincing response after the repeated physical transformations that morning failed her. However, she eventually realized that the creatures she had encountered—although some of them suffered from identity instability, such as the child who had turned into a pig—were in fact nothing more than a pack of playing cards. She immediately woke up from her dream to find herself in her real world.