Irrationality and Victorian influences in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Cristina Nuta - Many critics believed that apart from Shakespeare there is no English author more deserving of study by a foreign intent of exploring the English character and humour, than Lewis Carroll. He published 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', his most successful book, in 1865, mocking the children’s literature of the time, which suffered from a lack of imagination, only containing...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Cristina Nuta - Written in the omniscient third person point of view, the book focuses on Alice's struggle to adapt to the absurd rules and the adults' behaviour, in a world dominated by them, a society ruled by injustice, but it also focuses on her initiating experiences in Wonderland. We can say that the book focuses both on the theme of growth into adulthood, of maturity and also on...