She is surprised to find out that,
because of the cake she has eaten, she is now growing taller and taller.
She worries about her feet.
Because of her great height they seem almost out of sight.
She is worried, because if they
get offended, they won’t walk the way she wants. She decides therefore to give
them a new pair of boots every Christmas.
She strikes her head against the
roof.
b.
Although
She immediately stops crying and
dries her eyes to see who’s coming.
They’re not
socks. They are kid gloves.
That’s not the Queen. That’s the
Duchess.
She wonders about her identity,
thinking of who was she in the morning that same day (‘I wonder if I’ve been
changed in the night?’ line 43, ‘Was I the same when I got up this morning?’
line 44, ‘Who in he world am I’’ line 48).
Zoom in
It is an external narrator, who
describes the situation from
The chapter begins with the wrong
comparative form of curious (‘curiouser and curiouser’
line1).
At line 10 she starts thinking
about her feet and how to send them Christmas presents, presenting a bizarre
situation.
3. What effects do these elements introduce in he
text?
They follow the typical logic of
dreams and have a humorous effect on the reader.
4. Now reflect on the figure of the Rabbit. How would you describe his
character? Do we understand from the passage what his words refer to exactly?
The Rabbit is shy and fearful, as
we can understand from his reaction to
We can’t understand exactly what
he’s talking about. We only know that the Duchess is waiting for him.
5. What do the questions
6. How would you define the tone of the passage?
I think it is ironic and absurd,
but also philosophical in some points.
7. Explain in what way Alice’s
Adventures in Wonderland parodies 19th-century moral conventions
regarding children’s literature and the institutions of Victorian society.
8. Carroll creates an underground
world where the rules of the Victorian code are questioned and turned upside
down. Victorian rules don’t work and seem illogic. Everything is relative, everyone does what he/she wants. He creates a
world of imagination, fantasy and freedom from common sense.