Decisions

Lewis Carroll’s works Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There are by many people considered nonsense books for children. Of course, they are, but they are also much more. Lewis Carroll had a great talent of intertwining nonsense and logic, and therefore creating sense within nonsense. If you look past the nonsense you can find a new meaning other than the one you found completing your third …

…to be represented “as different levels within the British social class structure.”(Brown, Susan W. Wong) The finer and rarer specimens, such as the tiger-lily and the rose, are placed in a higher class than the more common and simpler daisies which the tiger-lily describes as “the worst of all. When one speaks, they all begin together, and its enough to make one wither to hear the way they go on!”(Through the Looking Glass, 122)