Examples Of Logic In Alice In Wonderland

As one of the most famous children’s story, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and its Disney cartoon film adaption, Alice in Wonderland, is read and watched by millions of children each year. However, not only is this story enjoyable, but it involves a deeper meaning of what is to come for the children consuming this fantastic work of literature. Lewis Carroll uses inversions of logic to depict the transition from childhood to adulthood in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. During adolescence, children learn things that defy what they were once told and learn to use their experiences to create new skills and absorb new knowledge about the world around them. In accordance with this, Alice begins her journey through Wonderland using logic from

This is the beginning of her journey and she is still adhering to the logic of reality, but the irrationality of Wonderland quickly undermines the utility of rational logic. As she descends she encounters a plethora of cupboards and shelves lining the walls of the hole. From one of the shelves Alice manages to grab a jar labeled “ORANGE MARMALADE” from one of the shelves. As a child, it is certain that she had been denied sweets such as orange marmalade, but typically for a reason. It is also logical that a jar labeled “orange marmalade” would contain orange marmalade. However, the jar, that had been sitting on an isolated shelf in a hole in the ground, is empty and Alice is revoked of the pleasure of orange marmalade for no justifiable reason, at least to a child. Even with these small fallacies, Alice still uses rational logic and puts the empty jar back into a cupboard because she didn’t want to hit anyone standing at the bottom of the hole in the head with it, as if she herself were not a danger to anyone standing at the bottom. At this point she has not adapted to Wonderland which will challenge the common laws of reality while simultaneously contradicting its own

She uses her learned logic to follow the directions on the bottle labeled “DRINK ME” but not before checking that it is labeled as poisonous like any rational child. This concoction shrinks her, enabling her to walk through the door, but she realizes that she forgot the key on the table. However, though she tries, the legs of the glass table are far too slippery to climb to reach the key. A small glass box under the table containing a cake that says “EAT ME” helps her to grow again, but to far greater proportions than she wished. And then once she is this tall, she cannot possibly go back through the door. Alice’s difficulty achieving what she wishes is representative of an adult’s difficulty balancing responsibilities and desires. For example, if a parent wishes to spend more time with their child and provide them with necessities and gifts, they must sacrifice time with their child to work to make money to provide their child with these