Finding Senselessness In Alice's Adventures In Wonderland And Through The Looking-Glass
Finding Sense In Senselessness
A senseless world is creatively put together by Lewis Carroll to become a very imaginative plot of entertainment, yet is has yielded a variety of concerns that relate to life throughout the novel. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland and Through The Looking-Glass relate to a dream-like world that is full of adventures that of which a young girl, Alice, accompanied by various animals, insects, and imaginary characters experience. Carroll has not only created an abstract character group, but has also taken Alice from our ordinary world and put her into a world of playing cards and chess pieces. Through all of the nonsense that is depicted in Alice, an important theme is growing up. The senselessness of Alice 's dream world becomes a contradiction on the ordered ordinary world. Carroll’s work gives many messages to its readers through the formalist perspective; the form of literary works that emphasize to determine its meaning by focusing on literary elements. Alice 's repeated encounters with meaninglessness and senselessness are shown through not only Alice, but through the other characters and the …show more content…
The Caterpillar has never seen something like Alice before; shes the only one like her around in Wonderland. She finds herself explaining to the Caterpillar about who she is, “I—I hardly know, sir, just at present – at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.”(Carroll 38). Alice responded uncertainly to the Caterpillar that she truly did not know exactly who she is. Alice is curious young girl and because of her age, she still is discovering the world around her. Throughout the novel Alice is growing up and gaining information and clues of the world around her because she starts to unlock reasonings of Wonderland and its odd habits. And even though she is regaining her way through confusion, she still is able to find home by the
A senseless world is creatively put together by Lewis Carroll to become a very imaginative plot of entertainment, yet is has yielded a variety of concerns that relate to life throughout the novel. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland and Through The Looking-Glass relate to a dream-like world that is full of adventures that of which a young girl, Alice, accompanied by various animals, insects, and imaginary characters experience. Carroll has not only created an abstract character group, but has also taken Alice from our ordinary world and put her into a world of playing cards and chess pieces. Through all of the nonsense that is depicted in Alice, an important theme is growing up. The senselessness of Alice 's dream world becomes a contradiction on the ordered ordinary world. Carroll’s work gives many messages to its readers through the formalist perspective; the form of literary works that emphasize to determine its meaning by focusing on literary elements. Alice 's repeated encounters with meaninglessness and senselessness are shown through not only Alice, but through the other characters and the …show more content…
The Caterpillar has never seen something like Alice before; shes the only one like her around in Wonderland. She finds herself explaining to the Caterpillar about who she is, “I—I hardly know, sir, just at present – at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.”(Carroll 38). Alice responded uncertainly to the Caterpillar that she truly did not know exactly who she is. Alice is curious young girl and because of her age, she still is discovering the world around her. Throughout the novel Alice is growing up and gaining information and clues of the world around her because she starts to unlock reasonings of Wonderland and its odd habits. And even though she is regaining her way through confusion, she still is able to find home by the