Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- First Published: 1865
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy
- Time of Work: Victorian England
- Setting: The dream world of an imaginative child
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Girls, Other worlds, Dreams, Mental illness, Cats, England or English people, Kings, queens, or royalty, Imagination, Card games, Size or shape, Animals, Victorian era or Victorianism, Lobsters, Rabbits, Doors, Mushrooms
- Locales: Dreamscape, Godstow, England, Wonderland (mythic)
Characters Discussed
Alice, a curious, imaginative, strong- willed, and honest young English girl. She falls asleep by the side of a stream in a meadow and dreams that she follows a White Rabbit down his hole. She has many adventures in a Wonderland peopled by all kinds of strange characters and animals.
The White Rabbit, anxious, aristocratic, dandified. Alice follows him down his hole, which leads to an enchanted house and garden. The White Rabbit is a prime minister of sorts in Wonderland, for he has close contact with the royalty there and carries out their orders,...
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