Alice in Wonderland's hidden meanings
Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll is a notorious author of the 19th century. Many, but still not enough know about him
more than just the fact that he has written two books on a young girl called Alice. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking
Glass are not just titles, but also parts of his life. They are chapters of the painful, but important trip of his
in this world. They are stories supposedly told to a young acquaintance of his. Behind the famous pseudonym was the
man Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a true man of the Renaissance. He was a mathematician, logician, photographer, writer
and the creator of many games and puzzle that are, even nowadays, interesting for people of all ages.
Behind the Curtain
There is a lot more behind the curtain of the simply absurd stories about Alice. There is love, hate, belief and most of
all strength. This strength is what drives the main character in the book into a world of her own, into
another dimension, into a dream. She is afraid to face the real world, afraid to lose herself into the chaos of
rules, obligations and ethics. She is being unstable and frightened by what expects her at the end of her becoming
of age.
Metaphors for Internal Battles
This character and her visions are a metaphor of the internal battle with the external world. Although
she has been denying all the problems and misconceptions of the grown world, she is suddenly facing the huge change
she will have to suffer. When her life has reached the crossroad of growing up, Alice once more escapes to
her inner world.
This story is a lot more than just insanity. It is also one truth about life, maturing and what happens to
the free spirits when they enter society as an individual and not part of a family. This story, however, hides some
other treasures. For example, it is known that Mr. Carroll has been very interested in the phenomenon of time
travelling. This is why some consider Alice's falling through the rabbit hole as more like a transition between
different time and space dimensions through a warm-hole.
Other Sciences
There are a lot other references to the many sciences Carroll was absorbed into. There are mathematics, logics and
of course psychology and philosophy. But let us not bore you with such things; they can be
understood as soon as you read the correct sentence. Of the genius of Dodgson we should give just one other
example: the strange way the Red Queen's world turns round and round. The way she always has to move... All that
nervousness and anxiety is considered a vision for the future, for the current present way we tend to always move
and are stressed by the lack of time (also the White Rabbit). The Red Queen
Race is also supposedly connected with the Evolution and the Gender equilibrium.
But we should not spoil all the fun and tell you all there is, just because even we cannot be certain that it has
all been uncovered. Every time the story is re-read there is the chance of something new to appear in the mind of
the reader. Also, we can never know for sure if some things now considered strange or absurd won't be a normal way
of thinking in the future.
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