4.ALICE IN WONDERLAND
Victorian Age.
Carroll went through a kind of special Literature, it was a Literature that reacted against the preceding Romantic Movement because of being a selfish movement with one´s back to the world, withdrew into itself, thus victorians writers did not accept the romantic chaos or the pessimistic movement full of doubts and being uncertain about everything.Victorian writers did not admit a kind of phantasy which showed people an unfriendly and cruel Nature. Victorian writers searched for Realism.
Thus we find that there is some of Realism enclosed in Alice´s fantastic world, for instance the aim of adventure and discovery: we have to remember that Alice had a great curiosity for everything surrounding her.
In Wonderland...
Alice in Wonderland was a tale improvised by Carroll. It is about the terrible moment when a child set aside his/her childhood to come in the fascinating, mysterious and absurd world of adults. In that way Alice moves forward the nearby moment of coming in the adults´ social world.
When Alice arrives to the bottom of the burrow, she encounters a dilemma , that of drinking or not from a little bottle on a table: the meaning of this is that Alice doesn´t know if she wants to become an adult.
Alice drank from that bottle, so she grew up and as soon as she had grown up she met the first adult: the White Rabbit. The White Rabbit was dressed as a victorian knight , and we could deduce that he suffered the great illness of Modern World: "to be in a hurry", because of his words "I will be late! I will be late!". We also find other significative moment: Alice "grew up" within the White Rabbit´s house. How distressing! and what a suffocation poor Alice suffered within the little house!. To us this house represents the adult world.
After going out there, Alice met other adult , this was a big caterpillar. To us this adult stands for the antithesis of the White Rabbit because the caterpillar spent his time laying on a gigantic mushroom and smoking his strange pipe.Also, Alice met the Duchess and the King and Queen of Hearts. These situations introduced Alice in the high stages of English Society. The awful duchess perhaps symbolizes the Victory´s mother, the domineering woman who wanted to control the fate of the young queen in the same way as the awful duchess did with Alice ( duchess took Alice by the waist and tried to impose her authority on Alice).