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Alice's 'Off With Her Head !'

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“Off with her head!” (XII.103) The powerful and wealthy Queen of Hearts demands such obedience authority within the novel. Her negative challenging behaviour empowers Alice’s maturity greatly in the end. The ruler of Wonderland and execution, frightens nearly everyone in Wonderland “the Queen put on her spectacles, and began staring hard t the Hatter, who turned pale and fidgeted.” (XI.93) Except Alice, “Off with her head! Off with-“ “Nonsense!” said Alice very loudly and decidedly, and the Queen was silent. (VIII.67) “Hold your tongue!” “I wont!” said Alice. A major key in authority is rules, Alice constantly obtains to rules “they don’t seem to have any rules in particular; at least, if there are, nobody attends to them; and you’ve no idea
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