Growth in Alice in Wonderland
“Alice: The Naive Girl Turned Educated Woman… Next, On Jerry Springer”The entire novel Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, revolves centrally around Alice’s growth through the reception of knowledge. Analyzing these references of comprehension allows the reader to gain an understanding of how indirectly gaining outside education and know-how will prove positive in an enclosed society. Through Alice’s encountering with the mouse and caterpillar, she becomes better equipped to succeed in her ultimate test of knowledge, the courtroom. Alice displays her naivety and shows what an undereducated and uncompassionate lass she amounts to, with her experience with the mouse as she swam in her tears. Before she had a true interaction with the mouse, Alice said, “I daresay it’s a French mouse, come over with William the Conqueror” (13). Since the mouse would not respond to Alice at first, she thought it foreign; she tried to put the knowledge she has to work, but it simply proved to amount to less then assumed from the quote. Seeing how impossible it could have been for the mouse to have ventured over with William the Conqueror, since his time had passed many hundred year prior, the author made a prime example of demonstrating Alice’
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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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