Alice's+Evidence

 Many believe that Alice in Wonderland is all about the journey of a young girl growing up. I believe that this is true, to an extent. She learns many things during her time in Wonderland, lessons she could use the rest of her life.  For example, at the beginning of the story, Alice keeps saying things before she thinks about it. Many times this ends up offending the animals. Such as the time she keeps talking about how Dinah likes to eat mice, while talking to a mouse. The mouse is so upset by this that he runs away. By the end of the story, she has learned that sometimes it’s best just not to say something. When she is talking to the Mock Turtle, he asks her something about lobsters. Her first instinct was to say that she has eaten many lobsters, but she stopped herself before said it out loud. The animals were not offended, and they were able to continue their conversation.  Alice also learns to believe in herself. At the beginning she is very timid and shy, too scared to even talk to a rabbit. By the end, she stands up to the Queen. She has discovered that she is stronger than she thought, and she doesn’t need to be scared of anyone.  It is these specific situations that lead me to believe that Alice has matured quite a bit since her entrance into the world of make-believe. If one can learn to believe in themselves and keep silent, one has grown.  There are many who believe that Lewis Carroll was using Alice in Wonderland to poke fun at the strict class divisions and moral behavior of Victorian England. If this is the case, it is quite easy to decipher Carroll’s opinion of the King and Queen. There are other specific times when his disgust with it all is apparent.  Lewis Carroll depicts the King as an ignorant fool and the Queen as a monstrous, trigger-happy, livid woman. The Queen is in complete control; the King is constantly consenting to whatever she says, as if he were afraid of her. The King is weak and incompetent, which might have something to do with the way that Carroll felt about the Royal Family at the time. It is easy to tell that Carroll was quite disappointed and disgusted with the judicial system of the time period; there was no justice whatsoever in the story. The Queen just shouted, “Off with his head” whenever there was the slightest problem. During the trial, the jurors were idiotic; they couldn’t even remember their names. The King was ready to take anything as evidence, no matter how irrelevant it was. The Queen was ready to convict and behead them before the trial even started. The whole scene was chaotic and unjust, which leads me to believe that Carroll felt this was the case in real life. Then there was the Caucus Race, in which everyone ran around in circles for a while. They felt like they were accomplishing something because of all their movement, but in the end they were right where they started. This seems to be a metaphor for the political mess going on in England. Those in power felt that they were so powerful and achieving such great deeds, but in actuality, they were doing nothing. These are just a few examples of how Lewis Carroll used his “children’s story” to mock the people in power.  
 * Alice’s Evidence **
 * Adults in Wonderland Are: **
 *  1.  ****<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #4a442a; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Gothic';">Adults in Wonderland are unreliable. **
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #4a442a; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC';"> 2.  ****<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #4a442a; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Gothic';">Adults in Wonderland are immature. **
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #4a442a; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC';"> 3.  ****<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #4a442a; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Gothic';">Adults in Wonderland are just as irresponsible as children. **
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #4a442a; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC';"> 4.  ****<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #4a442a; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Gothic';">Adults in Wonderland are quick to make judgments. **
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #4a442a; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC';"> 5.  ****<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #4a442a; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Gothic';">Adults in Wonderland are rude. **
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #4a442a; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC';"> 6.  ****<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #4a442a; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Gothic';">Adults in Wonderland have trouble listening. **
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #4a442a; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC';"> 7.  ****<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #4a442a; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Gothic';">Adults in Wonderland don’t like to be corrected. **
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #4a442a; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC';"> 8.  ****<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #4a442a; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Gothic';">Adults in Wonderland are easily offended. **
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #4a442a; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC';"> 9.  ****<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #4a442a; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Gothic';">Adults in Wonderland are stressed because they’re scared to lose their heads. **
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #4a442a; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC';"> 10.  ****<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #4a442a; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Gothic';">Adults in Wonderland don’t like children. **