Alice in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll is a fictional story about a young girl named Alice who spots an interesting white rabbit, muttering about being late, that she follows down a rabbit hole into a magical world. When she enters the unknown world, she finds a table with a tiny gold key, a small door and a bottle of potion with an attached note that says"Drink Me". Noticing that she is far too large to go through the door, she drinks the whole bottle and soon being to shrink small enough to go fit through the door. She realizes that she has left the tiny gold key to the door on the high table. Coincidentally, she finds a box underneath the table that contains a piece of cake labeled"Eat Me" She immediately eats and soon begins to grow tall enough to reach the key. Realizing that she is now too big to fit through the door. She begins to cry.The white rabbit that she followed into the magical world appears once again, still concerned about being late. She seeks help to him, he drops his gloves and fan and run away. She picks up his gloves and fan and realized that it caused her to shrink. While swimming through her puddles of tears,she meets many interesting, yet strange animals like The Cheshire cat, The Hatter, The March Hare and so on. These animals grant her some wisdom about what has been happening in her life. Alice is invited to have a tea party with one of the characters called the Mad Hatter and is ordered to play croquet with another character called The Queen of Hearts. During one of the demanding queen trails. Alice upsets her and is ordered dead. At this poet, Alice begins to run and then wakes up to discover that it was all just a dream.
'Alice in Wonderland ' is full of fanciful characters, each one adding a bit of humour and dimension to the story. It is a classic in a children's literacy genre known as 'nonsense'. Nonsense literature presents language and situations which are not normal. In this story and young girl falling down to a rabbit- hole and entering a strange surreal world where nothing quite make sense. But the imagination is as powerful as reality. Carroll demonstrate the nature of wonderland trough fantastical investigation of logic. He doesn't blend the boundary between the real and fantastical world by explicitly describing the mediating dream state; instead he thrusts the fantastical element into the real world.
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