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Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on alice in wonderland by lewis carroll.
Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on alice in wonderland by lewis carroll. Alice represents children as possessing innocence, determination, and independence that are essential in opposing corrupt adult social institutions.
Alice portrays the innocence of childhood that is necessary for questioning what society asserts as social norms and practices. Children are innocent because of their purity in understanding the world that can negate what society says about it. Alice shows how innocence is important to creativity and freedom. Stuck inside the dark hall after falling from the rabbit hole, she thinks about ways of “being” that is different from what and who she is. She considers being a “telescope” because “so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible” (Carroll, 1865, p. 9). As a child, she has the innocence to see problems and solutions in a fresh light instead of staying in a box of what society expects of her. Moreover, children are innocent because they acknowledge their weaknesses. After crying a pool of tears and getting small again, Alice finds herself swimming in her tears, and says: “I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears!” (Carroll, 1865, p. 24). While society does not criticize itself for its mistakes, Carroll (1865) shows how children are better off because of their sense of self-responsibility. They know their mistakes and they want to fix it. Children can be better human beings than an adult society that does not want to know and to fix their mistakes. The novel stresses the advantages of innocence in challenging society’s long-standing impurities.
Aside from innocence, Alice represents children as good because of their determination. They do not live in fear of the risks that society tells them they cannot take. Alice thinks about what could have .happened to her life if she had not gone through the rabbit hole: “I almost wish I hadn’t gone down that rabbit-hole—and yet—and yet—it’s rather curious, you know, this sort of life! I do wonder what can have happened to me!” (Carroll, 1865, p. 46).
