Carroll mirrors the confusion from the perception of the child, to what an adult may be saying & how illogical it may seem The Child Their are definite indications to Alice experiencing a dream Scary elements in the story really a clear quest or story about her trying to get out, she is suspended in a place that she can't quite understand. Characters that will turn on her, the of Hearts always trying to take the Head of off people. What keeps the story from being quiet dark is that their is a great deal of elements, and how she distances herself from it all. *READ: Hunt - "Defining Children's Literature" Consider Freuds Idea of Dream Interpretation Psycho Analysis of Children's Literature The MAD HATTER & the Tea Party + The Final Thoughts of Alice's Sister -Tea Time: was a important ritual about Victorian Brittan, displayed a lot of the social rules and expected the etiquette a very formal affair, in which the women presided, and could be expected to visit each other -Considered a mark or civilised society, a mark of British Imperialism -Usually in British Middle & upper class society, children would have their tea party time separately We see how Alice has not yet entered adult hood, but her older sister has. They have tea separately, yet even still the older sister still hasn't been claimed entirely by the mundane mindset of adult hood. They Dream world was an interpretation of the dull reality, its sounds etcetera. The ability to imagine, and the nonsense of a dream exists in both adults & children. Their is no clear division, adults have the same potential of a child but choose not too. Carroll suggests the ideas that this transition is something forced on by society & culture, perhaps what we associated with adult hood may be forced upon people. And what is considered childhood is forced to be left behind. Joining adults for Tea have been a mark of a child entering adult hood When Alice address the Mad Hatter's Tea Party, she is treated as unwelcome : Pg.60
Carroll mirrors the confusion from the perception of the child, to what an adult may be saying & how illogical it may seem The Child Their are definite indications to Alice experiencing a dream Scary elements in the story really a clear quest or story about her trying to get out, she is suspended in a place that she can't quite understand. Characters that will turn on her, the of Hearts always trying to take the Head of off people. What keeps the story from being quiet dark is that their is a great deal of elements, and how she distances herself from it all. *READ: Hunt - "Defining Children's Literature" Consider Freuds Idea of Dream Interpretation Psycho Analysis of Children's Literature The MAD HATTER & the Tea Party + The Final Thoughts of Alice's Sister -Tea Time: was a important ritual about Victorian Brittan, displayed a lot of the social rules and expected the etiquette a very formal affair, in which the women presided, and could be expected to visit each other -Considered a mark or civilised society, a mark of British Imperialism -Usually in British Middle & upper class society, children would have their tea party time separately We see how Alice has not yet entered adult hood, but her older sister has. They have tea separately, yet even still the older sister still hasn't been claimed entirely by the mundane mindset of adult hood. They Dream world was an interpretation of the dull reality, its sounds etcetera. The ability to imagine, and the nonsense of a dream exists in both adults & children. Their is no clear division, adults have the same potential of a child but choose not too. Carroll suggests the ideas that this transition is something forced on by society & culture, perhaps what we associated with adult hood may be forced upon people. And what is considered childhood is forced to be left behind. Joining adults for Tea have been a mark of a child entering adult hood When Alice address the Mad Hatter's Tea Party, she is treated as unwelcome : Pg.60