Educating Alice:The lessons of Wonderland

Educating Alice: The lessons of Wonderland by Jan Susina show the comparison of the lessons and rules of the real world to the book. Susina description about Alice is based on her being too comfortable with herself. He also illustrates that the book by Lewis Carroll was missing the basic of religion, comprehension and understanding. This is show because Alice must of the time have the great ideas but the way she portrays them are unorganized. Carroll wrote this imaginary world called Wonderland for Alice and her sisters, daughters of the Dean of Christ Church, Henry George Liddell. One of the things that makes it different from other children’s literature is doesn’t use the didacticism, but in the other hand it uses other tools such as social arrangements codes of behavior, motherhood, order and it also provides many other social lessons. Alice can be compare to the ideal Victorian girl as stated by Carroll; they are polite, honest, generous, and well mannered. One of the reasons why Carroll made a idealist girl because he didn’t have patience for kids that didn’t behave and weren’t polite. Alice comfort to other becomes concrete when it is portray as the role of the mother for example; when she distribute candy and prizes to all the animals which in his representation of given. The knowledge that Alice shows by the big words she says and how she approaches herself. She focuses on “her emotional and nurturing abilities”. Another example is when she willingly takes care of the baby which turns like a pig. Alice at the end of the story starts to realize that rules are necessary and that easy and simple to follow them. They compare it to a croquet game. Wonderland is described as puzzled, and is a place that demands “rules and lessons”. Unlike, other books Wonderland among many critics can be concluded as a dream.