Comparing Alice's Adventures In Wonderland And The Garden Of Eden, By Lewis Carroll

Forests and jungles serve a multipurpose, and in many places they bring different meaning. The Garden of Eden, said to be a secluded part of the jungle guarded by gates and the lord, served as a purpose for Adam and Eve. But, In Fairy Tales, Forests and Jungles serve another purpose, usually not fully understood or known. Prevalent in both Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and The Jungle book By Rudyard Kipling, which both take part in the element of nature, share the common ground, the forest or the jungle contemplate on different rules. Throughout both texts, it is shown that Jungles and forest operate entirely on their own set of rules, not quite like the one’s followed in the rest of the world. Not just within the context

Throughout the book, Mowgli is either referenced to as “man cub” or “wolf man”, either which this gave Mowgli two separate identities. When Mowgli is “cast out” by his wolf pack due to the imminent danger of Shere Khan the tiger, Mowgli has to go to the village of people in order to be safe, where he no longer is man cub and becomes wolf man. Although Mowgli does not change his identity, the people change who his is, Mowgli, ridiculed for being a man adopted by cubs, was once known for putting emphasis on the idea that he was a man, but once introduced to humans he is emphasized with the wolf counter part of his life. Mowgli comes to realization of this and concluded this is what he will always be known for when casted out by the people he is called a wolf-man and so Mowgli counters with, “Again, last time it was because I am a wolf. Let us go Akela” (Kipling 70). Through this you learn that Mowgli becomes very aware of his identity that, although he is a liminal being, a mediator between two separate societies, his own identity cannot be

For both Mowgli and Alice, laws are presented a score understanding of their worlds, laws are what keeps their lands harmonized and keeps the people alive. Laws in both the Jungle and the forests are what is utmost important. Within the Jungle Book, the Jungle laws are what it the most important things the free people follow, it keeps order and justice and should not be tainted by disobedience, or consequences could be dire. Many times the law of the Jungle people is referenced, it was what keeps the Jungle safe, sane and in order. If not followed consequences of law are there, the law is to protect the people who follow, “No these are the Laws of the jungle, and man and mighty there they; but head and hoof of the law and the haunch and the hump is- Obey!”(Kipling 181). From the time Mowgli was am infant he is taught of the Jungle law, the rules he must follow he is taught “That is the law of the jungle” (Kipling 15), by both Baloo and Bagheera, to keep him alive. But the jungle law does not just keep Mowgli alive, it gave Mowgli the chance to survive among not just his wolf pack but with many of the jungle people. Through his encounter with the law of the jungle, Mowgli was taught the words of the snake people and how the Bander-log are and