... and more dependent on what they know, assume is right and what correlates with the teachings they have been taught thus far in their lives. The Mad Hatter who portrays an adult figure, just as many of the other characters, he is immature and irrational. Everything that the mad hatter says can be examined and he is very much like an nosey ... child looking for answers and taking word exactly instead of symbolically. Alice is nosy, she knows her place in society, shows good habits. Alice maintains herself as an adult Victorian woman, even ... based on their behavior and what she knows ab...

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... 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 incompetent characters to portray the roles of court agents. The jury ... 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 pr...

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