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	 The Victorian age, was an age of paradox and power.Carroll wanted to move away from 
	the sense of responibility, from the prudence, the good education and the repression 
	that he was living in his Victorian society.
	  Matthew Arnold might say at mid century that:
                                
                                    "The world, which seems
                                      To lie before us like a land of dreams,
                                      So various, so beautiful, so new,
                                     Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
                                     Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain."

	 Maybe Carroll wanted to find this world of joy, of love and light, and maybe he wanted 
	to showthis world to all the people. Is for this reason that "Alice in Wonderland" is a 
	work very related with the social context. In the book we can see reflected several 
	problems of this society like the deficcient diet, of women above all, that increased 
	the risk of hazardous births. We can also see other problems like the especific behaviour
	 that people had to have.

	I thing Alice in Wonderland is a very difficult work to understand, from the beginning 
	to the end.
	Alice in Wonderland is apparently a simple book for children that tells things without 
	importance, but really this book is a very complex work full of simbols that relates the 
	Victorian society and the Wonderland like if they were the opposite and also the same 
	world. We can see it in " Fantasy or 
	reality ?", in the "hatter's inprisonment", this fact apparently is very different to 
	the real life but there is showed that is also very similar in some cases of the 
	Victorian society.

	Carroll was always related with children, there was something that atracted him to the 
	children world, to the world of fantasy.