Topics for Further Study
Create a chart detailing the sequence of events in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Many critics observe a clear pattern in Alice's adventures. Do you concur with their assessment? Explain your reasoning, and provide examples from the text to bolster your argument.
One prominent feature of Wonderland is its distorted logic. Read Carroll's books Symbolic Logic and The Game of Logic, then compare Carroll's notions of logic in these works to those in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Compare Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with other Victorian fantasy works, such as John Ruskin's The King of the Golden River and Jean Ingelow's Mopsa the Fairy. How does Alice measure up against these books?
Investigate the roles of women and children in Victorian England during the time Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was written. Write a diary entry imagining the daily life of the real Alice, and include her potential future expectations.
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