The Strong Female Character in Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"

Do you ever notice in stories, the female characters tend to be weak and sometimes have a mentor to guide them? Alice Adventures in Wonderland turned the tables on this type of character and made a strong, lively character Alice. Carroll disregarded the traditional plot lines and development of characters of his time by creating an empowered Alice, who overcomes the challenges in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Not only does Alice face different challenges through the story she also faces her pre-teen years of emotional and developmental stages. We can argue that Carroll disobeyed the normal childhood innocence by taking away Alice’s innocence because she had to go through Wonderland, facing different challenges that made her a strong young woman.

When children read Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland they see humor with anxiety and animals that can talk. That is the whole logic they see. Adults see Alice is indestructible, not just physically. She has the figure of a rock but at the same time rubber like, she bounces back right after every insult and threat. Every time she bounces back she gained self-confidence (Bernays, pg 1). Does Alice in wonderland show that Alice is ready to enter the “real world?” “Teenager sense in instinctively when they are ready for freedom, autonomy and responsibility (Howell pg 1). In the book, Alice conquers many challenges that show she is a strong, empowered girl.

Lewis Carroll broke a lot of rules writing Alice in Wonderland using Alice as his main Character and giving Alice the personality of a strong female character. Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland in the year of 1865. In the year of 1865 not many author dare to write about a female character who was strong. For example books that...

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...ring female in the story but at the same time Wonderland itself was not real, animals can’t talk and the riddles and puzzles in the story were very abstract and impossible to answer. If Carroll decided to rewrite Alice in Wonderland again but Alice in the real world, the story will be very different and it could be more educational and helpful to the females all over the world and how to face walls and bumps in their lifetime. Carroll himself showed the world and not only the world but the academic/ writing world that you can be creative and write about anything you want even if it breaks the rules of society and people’s beliefs. Alice in Wonderland is a story that everyone in the present and future will talk about because Carroll disobeys many things by writing that book. But disobeying those rules and things made Alice in Wonderland a book to remember a lifetime.