... bad is constantly challenged and instead of children looking for someone to guide them, they are guiding themselves. Alice scorns the adult figures in the story based on their behavior and what she knows about proper etiquette of Victorian qualities. The Alice books, Alice easily gets upset when new rules are shown in Wonderland and through the looking glass. Everything she has learned before coming to ... Wonderland and while she is there, contradicts itself. Where in her reality she is supposed to be sophisticated and carry herself with class and follow suit ... authoritative figures...

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• Approx Pages: 3

... Marina Brewer Many people look at Lewis Carrol as a political satirist. Through his novels Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass he constantly criticizes the Victorian justice system. In this essay I will examine Carrol's attacks upon the ignorance of the court agents, the injustice of the system itself and the gravity of the punishments. Carrol has consciously picked very ... up to them to produce a justifiable decision. The jurors are not the only ones involved in the trial who deserve to be discredited. The King, who acts as judge is practically useless. In today's court...

• Word Count: 880
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School