In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Alice is an inquisitive young girl who dreams herself into a nonsense world. While in this world, Alice exhibits curiosity and attempts to grasp a coherent perception of the fantasy world. Alice displays confidence based on her education and good manners. She sometimes acts with entitlement in order to educate the impolite characters of Wonderland. Alice’s logic clashes with the madness found beyond the rabbit hole. This causes Alice to endure an identity crisis while delirious creatures question her central beliefs. The nonsensical elements of Wonderland require Alice to search for her true self. Alice’s character development occurs within the themes of the novel, starting with the examination of life …show more content…
Alice struggles through her various physical changes while in Wonderland. Alice finds herself at uncomfortable sizes that make her feel discomfort, frustration, and sadness, much like puberty. At the end of the novel, there is a tonal shift from Alice to her sister which states “Lastly, she pictured to herself how the same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood; and how she would gather about her other little children, and make their eyes bright and eager with many a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of long ago; and how she would feel with all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in all their simple joys, remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer days” (Carroll, 144). These quotes encompass Alice’s sister as the ideal subversion who impaired Alice’s quest for meaning and identity as she envisions Alice growing up and perplexing other light-hearted children with her stories. This quote acts as Carroll’s remarks on Alice as a character. This final piece has a sentimental feel for the happy summer days in which Carroll interacted with the Liddell