Diction In Alice In Wonderland

Adolescence can be a difficult time in life when faced with foreign issues. In writing, adolescence can be used to amplify the aberration of any situation due to the lack of knowledge of most ordinary commodities. Lewis Carroll uses detail and diction in Alice in Wonderland to further depict Alice as a curious adolescent child who doesn’t know who she really is. Diction is used frequently in Alice’s dialogue to demonstrate the lack of intelligence due to her age. When Alice observes the book that her sister is reading, she notices that there are no pictures in this book. Confused, she ponders at the idea that books with no pictures are pointless, “What is the use of a book,” thought Alice, ‘without pictures or conversation” (1). Alice says this because she is only five years of age, and doesn’t fully understand the importance of books because she - most likely- just recently started reading for herself. Diction is also used to display that she tries to sound more intelligent than

As Alice falls down the rabbit hole, she ponders out loud - which is common in adolescent children - about how other people perceive her, “And what an ignorant little girl she’ll think me for asking ! No, it’ll never do to ask : perhaps I shall see it written up somewhere” (1). She tends to do this multiple times throughout the novella furthering the notion that she is young. In addition to this, she also tends to make irrational decisions with childish reasoning. When Alice first falls down the rabbit hole, she is met with a bottle that was labeled “DRINK ME”. Typically, a mature person would dismiss this mysterious bottle, and go on with their day. However, Alice comes to the conclusion that since the bottle doesn’t say ‘poison’ on it anywhere, it should be same to consume, “However, this bottle was not marked “poison,” so Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it very