In the Victorian era of 1865, lived a man by the name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgeson, alias Lewis Carroll. A true lover of children, he believed that they were the soul of the community and the link to his childhood. Out of love and generosity to one of his good friend’s daughter, Alice Liddell, he wrote a novel of her adventures in a mystical place named Wonderland. Along with love and merriment on her way, Alice encounters scenarios that would devastate a young child’s mind such as when, “In a bit of confusion he [Mad Hatter] bit a large piece of his teacup instead of the bread and butter” (Carroll 105). Considering “much of the children’s literature was… purposeful and dour” at the time Carroll went against the grain of the other writers and decided to write the novel with an abundant amount of satires (Stanley 30). The work of Lewis Carroll in the novel, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, depicts the usage of drugs and phallic symbols and creates an absurd amount of confusion in a child’s life, thus such a book should be solely for the enjoyment and entertainment of adults.
Through out the duration of the novel young Alice confronts many different possible modern scenarios toward drug abuse and hallucinations. “

The third and final theme to the novel, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, are the phallic symbols that are ever so visually portrayed. This is due to the fact that as Carroll revolted against the government via his novel he didn’t wish to discontinue with out announcing his love for children. Although many critics agree that he had sexual relations with them, it is more likely that he wished to portray their innocence that many writers at the time could not do. “He photographed naked girls with the approval of their parents,” and by doing so he captured their beauty as would a sculptor (Burgess 7). Although he thought children were priceless, the community surrounding him did not, “With this middle-class population same a spread of so called ‘family values’ polite society avoided mentioning sex sexual passion, bodily functions, and in extreme cases bodily parts” (Stanley 30). Now Carroll never mentioned a single bodily part, but did use extreme cases of metaphors such as when he mentioned that “The rabbit hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way,” and by incorporating this into the novel he created the image of the female genitalia (Carroll 18). He also mentioned “…Shutting up like a telescope,” again, here is a reference to the male reproductive organ (Carroll 24). There are also some beliefs that, “Carroll’s narratives around the imagery of sexual fantasies, rabbit-holes, magic potions that produce bodily metamorphoses, decapitation threats, and desires to become queen” are not entirely as poetic as who would hope and are instead expressions of sexual frustration (Bloom 66). Many critics believe that the “Duchess’s walking close to Alice and poking her chin into Alice’s shoulder [is in actuality] a sinister suggestion of sexual aggressiveness that reflects Carroll’s uneasiness about sexuality” (Howes 120). It is most possible that Carroll was not a pedophile by any means, but instead just wanted to express some adult humor in his materials. Although this is most true it is