Nina Auerbach exclaims, “With baby and pepper flung about indiscriminately, pastoral tranquility is inverted into a whirlwind of savage sexuality” (2). They ran their households orderly, much unlike the duchess’, in which the chaotic lifestyle represents the imperfection of humans.
This scene mocks the civilized, somewhat robotic lifestyle of Victorians. Among these, include her interaction with the Duchess and her baby. Various symbolic characters arise and develop during Alice’s adventures. By employing allegorical characters, creating parodies of common Victorian traditions, and deriding the church, Carroll is able to present a scornful and mocking view of society to his readers, with the hopes of change.įurthermore, Alice’s frugal attempts to civilize the animal world by means of Victorian rules further intensify Carroll’s mockery of nineteenth-century English ways of life. Lewis Carroll wrote his two famous novels with this underlying message to advise his fellow Victorians to change their ways of life, and recognize the wrongdoings of society in order to bring about a more modern view of life. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass represent the importance of change in society: Old habits and customs can harbor a nation’s growth culturally and politically.
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