Through her fantastical adventures, Alice challenges the idea that children should adapt to the adult world with its questionable principles and morality. Alice’s good sense and her feeling for justice are indispensable to her success. Rote learning offers no guides, tales lack morals. The answers to riddles are questionable or non-existent.
While today’s social norms are undoubtedly different from those of Carroll’s time, the story’s underlying challenge still resonates: a child must navigate an unfamiliar world full of arbitrary and ridiculous adult rules, where fear is often the driving force for many participants’ decisions. Lewis Carroll’s tale Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a carnival mirror reflection of Victorian society with its rigid social conventions.
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