is faced with the contradicting nature of the fantastic creatures who live there. Alice's

Adventures in Wonderland is a child's struggle to survive in the condescending world of

adults. The conflict between child and adult gives direction to Alice's adventures and

controls all the outstanding features of the work- Alice's character, her relationship with

other characters, and the dialogue. " Alice in Wonderland is on one hand so nonsensical

that children sometimes feel ashamed to have been interested in anything so silly (Masslich

107)." The underlying message of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a rejection of

The character of Alice is not at all like what you would find in a typical children's

book. "The character of Alice herself is a bit puzzling, even to the modern child, because

it does not fit a stereotype. How much more unusual she must have seemed to Victorian

children, used to girl angels fated for death (in Dickens, Stowe, and others), or to

impossibly virtuous little ladies, or to naughty girls who eventu

that have their own ways of thinking and do not understand why Alice does not agree with

that all of the creatures in Wonderland are wrong. "Nevertheless there is in her world the

Once she has learned this she politely rejects all offers made by characters and tells them

of that is Birds of a feather flock together (Carroll )." Many children see adults,

ideas are childish and wrong just as Alice was. The reader can see that Alice understands

underlying joyful certainty that they are incompetent, absurd, and only a pack of cards

language. This is a heightening of the effect which an adult life must have on a child like

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