Write 4 page essay on the topic Alices Adventures through Wonderland Analysis.Download file to see previous pages... From the outset Alice’s rebellion is evident, albeit subtly stated. She is bored

Write 4 page essay on the topic Alices Adventures through Wonderland Analysis.

From the outset Alice’s rebellion is evident, albeit subtly stated. She is bored with having to sit on a riverbank on a lazy summer afternoon, watching her sister read a book that contains no pictures to stir Alice's imagination. Everything about this scene seems so self contained and stagnant that Alice herself is lulled into a kind of paralysis. Languidly she contemplates “whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies”. This scene is expressive of Alice’s discontent with her life, the life which society has assigned to girls. Reading, picking daisies and fashioning daisy chains may be socially prescribed activities for Victorian girls but they are hardly ones which stimulate or interest Alice. Instead, they push her into a deep lethargy and listlessness from which only the white Rabbit can rouse her out of.The fantasy world into which the White Rabbit leads Alice excites her imagination in ways that her Victorian world could never have. Her decision to follow the White Rabbit into a world beyond her own and the very fact that the Rabbit stimulates her into action and arouses her curiously are highly significant occurrences. In the first place, her decision to follow the Rabbit evidences her rejection of her stagnant and boring Victorian reality. In the second place, the fact that she exhibits both action and curiosity is expressive of the potential which resides within the female and which is suppressed by societal norms.