Alice, a young girl living in the Victorian era of England, sits by a riverbank tiredly as her sister reads her a book. She spies a small white rabbit scurrying past looking at a pocket watch he pulled out of his waistcoat pocket. She curious follows the rabbit to a rabbit hole, and falls through. In Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the story of Alice depicts a sad and inevitable loss of childhood innocence in her life and a questioning of identity. Before Alice enters Wonderland, she goes through a phenomenon that falls away from the normal rules of reality. The fall into the rabbit hole is representing Alice falling into a deep sleep. Her dreams created an extremely detailed imaginary world that repeatedly shifts and changes at its own will. Alice ran away from the Victorian world that her sister is in because she feels unsatisfied with life. …show more content…
The realization that she cannot fit through the door to the garden creates more confusion about who she is, in which Alice reacts to with much crying and remorse. Since she cannot remember who she might be, she decides that she is not Alice anymore. “I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is 'Who in the world am I?' Ah, that's the great puzzle!”(Carroll 8) Alice tries to use links of reasoning normally used in the aboveground world, but she must accept the nonsense or she will go crazy with disagreement. The pool of tears shows how easily Wonderland can distract Alice from reason and caused her to react with extreme emotion. The sea of tears is a punishment for Alice giving in to emotions. Instead of handling her situation by rationalizing her problem she began to