Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, widely beloved British children’s book by Lewis Carroll,

published in 1865. With its fantastical, fairy tale; children’s fiction; satire; allegorytales and riddles,
it became one of the most popular works of English-language fiction. It was notably illustrated by
British artist John Tenniel.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a story about Alice who falls down a rabbit hole and lands into
a fantasy world that is full of weird, wonderful people and animals. The story centres on Alice, a
young girl who falls asleep in a meadow and dreams. She has many wondrous, often bizarre
adventures with thoroughly illogical and very strange creatures.

It is classic children's book that is also popular with adults.

HOW CAN WE COULD RELATE TO REALITY?

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. In Chapter 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.

She encounters the hookah-smoking Caterpillar, the Duchess, and the Cheshire Cat, and she
attends a strange endless tea party with the Mad Hatter and the March Hare. She plays a game of
croquet with an unmanageable flamingo for a croquet mallet and uncooperative hedgehogs for
croquet balls while the Queen calls for the execution of almost everyone present.
• Alice - The protagonist of the story. Alice believes that the world is orderly and
stable, and she has an insatiable curiosity about her surroundings.
Wonderland challenges and frustrates her perceptions of the world.
• The White Rabbit - The White Rabbit is figure of some importance, but he is
manic, timid, and occasionally aggressive.
• The Queen Of Hearts - The ruler of Wonderland. The Queen is severe and
domineering, continually screaming for her subjects to be beheaded.
• The King Of Hearts - The coruler of Wonderland. The King is ineffectual and
generally unlikeable, but lacks the Queen’s ruthlessness and undoes her
orders of execution.
• The Cheshire Cat - A perpetually grinning cat who appears and disappears at
will. The Cheshire Cat displays a detached, clearheaded logic and explains
Wonderland’s madness to Alice.
• The Duchess - The Queen’s uncommonly ugly cousin. The Duchess behaves
rudely to Alice at first, but later treats her so affectionately that her advances
feel threatening.
• The Caterpillar - A Wonderland creature. The Caterpillar sits on a mushroom,
smokes a hookah, and treats Alice with contempt.
• The Mad Hatter - A small, impolite hatter who lives in perpetual tea-time. The
Mad Hatter enjoys frustrating Alice.
• The March Hare - The Mad Hatter’s tea-time companion. The March Hare
takes great pleasure in frustrating Alice.
• The Dormouse
• The Gryphon
• The Mock Turtle
• Alice’s Sister - The only character whom Alice interacts with outside of
Wonderland. Alice’s sister daydreams about Alice’s adventures as the story
closes.
• The Knave Of Hearts
• The Mouse - The first Wonderland creature that Alice encounters. The Mouse
is initially frightened of Alice and her talk about her pet cat, and eventually
tells the story of Fury and the Mouse that foreshadows the Knave of Heart’s
trial.
• The Dodo
• The Duck, The Lory, And The Eaglet -
• The Cook
• The Pigeon
• Two, Five, And Seven
• Bill.
• The Frog-Footman