Bring out a deeper theme, symbolism or meaning - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Let's take an adventure into a Wonderland filled with strange creatures, an overruling queen, and the most ridiculous situations. Alice, a seven year old girl who lives in a wealthy home in England, is the main character who leads us on a journey to Wonderland. Alice's life is nothing unusual until one day she follows a white rabbit down a rabbit hole and her whole life turns upside down. In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, one meets Alice who reveals the imagination, experience, and memories of being a child, while acknowledging the confusion of life and internal struggle of finding an identity.

Alice confronts many characters in which serve as an obstacle course to her rather than actual help. With this obstacle course Alice develops her identity and matures. When the White Rabbit mistakes her for a servant, Alice questions her social class in Wonderland. Alice loses her politeness when the other characters continue act rudely. Until the end Alice maintains her politeness as much as possible. She learns to adjust to her surroundings and the mad people in Wonderland. With the constant questions of who Alice is, she starts to realize she does not really know who she is and feels as if she has become mad like the creatures of Wonderland. Alice must choose whether to abide by her logical learning ways or adjust to the ridiculous rules of Wonderland. Alice constantly struggles, which effects her overall perception of Wonderland. Alice becomes absorbed in the madness, and many of the characters claim she has become mad also. Alice then meets the Mad Hatter who also makes her aware that she cannot solve the problems she has been confronted with. The Mad Hatter gives Alice riddles in which he has no clue what the answer is and portrays the idea of madness through Wonderland. They are some of the most argumentative of the creatures Alice meets in Wonderland, and their strange remarks show Carroll's talent for word games and logical puzzles.

The Duchess confuses Alice for she believes that everything has a moral behind it, but when she explained the morals behind certain things Alice seemed only to get more frustrated, as Carroll writes, “So many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible” (Carroll 23). The Duchess states “everything's got a moral, if only you can find it” (Carroll 106), which makes Alice consider that everything just may have a lesson behind it. Alice tries to keep her composure as best as she can through this part of the novel. Duchess's words make Alice start to develop as a mature adult and help develop her identity making her an overall better person. It also displays the negative effects one can experience if you become an unpleasant person.

Alice soon starts to realize that she is not alone in Wonderland, and some characters act as a guide ...