EN 101 Lecture 25: Themes - Alice in wonderland
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The tragic and inevitable loss of childhood innocence. Throughout the course of alice"s adventures in wonderland, alice goes through a variety of absurd physical changes. The discomfort she feels at never being the right size acts as a symbol for the changes that occur during puberty. Alice finds these changes to be traumatic, and feels discomfort, frustration, and sadness when she goes through them. She struggles to maintain a comfortable physical size. In chapter 1, she becomes upset when she keeps finding herself too big or too small to enter the garden. 5, she loses control over specific body parts when her neck grows to an absurd length. These constant fluctuations represent the way a child may feel as her body grows and changes during puberty. In alice"s adventures in wonderland, alice encounters a series of puzzles that seem to have no clear solutions, which imitates the ways that life frustrates expectations.
