Alice's Craziness In Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll is a novella about a girl's adventures in this so called Wonderland, where she meets a vas amount of characters who are crazy, silly, and plain weird and looking for someone to defeat the "Red Queen". Not only is the novella for kids, but it holds a lot of details and ideals that would excite adults. The novella is full of symbolism, mathematic, and logic for the adults, and imagery and sense of childhood for kids.

The entire novella is full of mathematical references throughout the enitre read. Lewis Carroll was a mathematican at once, so it only makes sense that he had put it there on purpose. His entire reason for this was to attract adults into feeling like a child, but also catching the math and logic in it catches them also. An example of this was in the book, during chapter two it says, "Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is—oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate! (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland). This is an explanation where Alice tries to perform multipilication, four times five is twelve is actually possible in a different base, such as base 18. There is also signs of inverse relationships in logic for example. The novella is just full of logic and math for adults.

This also attracts children as well, with the visual elaborations throughout the book and the adventure Alice goes through. The book is filled with all the dreams of being a kid and actually experiencing life as a child. The book is by far something every child dreams of in their wildest dreams. It catches the child by the eye, by being able to close their eyes and dream up the world Alice is in.

Overall a good novella and an excellent example of the novels that catches both the adult audience and child audience.

Works Cited

"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 1 May 2011.

SparkNotes Editors. “SparkNote on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” SparkNotes.com. SparkNotes LLC. 2005. Web. 13 Apr. 2011.