But, why are king and queen of Hearts playing cards? § ¨ © ª ª § © © © © © © © ¨

Cards have a conventional value that depends on players. Within the adults world almost every value is conventional, similar to one play of cards. The adults world is ruled by norms and Alice realized that these norms didn´t make sense. Life is a play so absurd and arbitrary as the game of croquet organized by the queen in her gardens.

Also,we have to remember another famous episode of Alice: "the tea with the Hatter and the Hare". It represents the english ritual of taking tea at six.

In Alice in Wonderland , Lewis Carroll tells us the last dream of Childhood. In this way Alice become the first great contemporary narration that proclames that people do not make great discoveries in their outer space but in their inner part.(Just like the works of Marcel Proust, James Joyce and Thomas Mann that continue that exploration in this fascinating "territory"; an exploration started by Carroll with her Alice).

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