Lewis Carroll’s works Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There are by many people considered nonsense books for children. Of course, they are, but they are also much more. Lewis Carroll had a great talent of intertwining nonsense and logic, and therefore creating sense within nonsense. If you look past the nonsense you can find a new meaning other than the one you found completing your third …showed first 75 words of 1695 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1695 total…At the end of the first book Alice stands up and expresses her feelings that the whole trial is nonsense and that the “soldiers” were just a pack of cards. In the second book Alice, sick of the chaos and confusion, summons the courage to challenge the Red Queen. With these two achievements Alice breaks “the spell of the domineering, repressive authority figures”(Makinen, 2) and gives hope that in reality this could also be possible.