Drinking The Bottle In Lewis Carroll's Alice In Wonderland

In the excerpt from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Alice decides to take drink
from the bottle that clearly says "DRINK ME". Though Alice's thoughts seemed candid at the time, they came out to be completely obscure considering they were not entirely logical. Most of Alice’s assumptions were correct to a fault. For example, Alice’s reasoning not to drink the bottle is merely because it does not have the word “poison” on it. She knew that poison is often marked, but failed to acknowledge that if someone were trying to harm her, they would not mention it. Alice has never tried to consume poison, because if she had she would not be alive. While drinking the bottle, Alice finds the taste to be pleasing, and proceeds to believe it is not bad

because it is good. Speaking in a metaphorical sense, there are many bad things that taste good in this world. Most things immoral tend to have a satisfying approach, such as drugs and the euphoria they create within the mind. Alice also compares all of the mistakes she’s learned and knows that if the red hot-poker that will burn you if holding it too long, and if the knife will make one bleed if there is a cut deep enough, there will be pain and regret (TASS #8). Never again does Alice want to experience something painful, so she uses her common sense: “This fluid is unfamiliar to me, and could be unpleasant. The fluid is not unpleasant. Therefore, it is surely pleasant.” (TASS #3). It is part of human nature to learn from trial and error, and obviously Alice is experiencing that critical phase in her life.