Through the Looking-Glass | Social Sensitivity
Carroll's concerns about language, dominance, violence, and power are just as appropriate in the nuclear age as the Victorian era. Although some readers may recoil from Carroll's assertation that the desire to grow up includes the desire to dominate and punish, this assertion does force readers to question their own definitions of adulthood, as well as their own definitions of the loss incurred when leaving childhood behind. Alice in Wonderland, with its chaotic landscape and characters, may be more frightening, but Through the Looking-Glass is perhaps more psychologically...
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