In the books Carroll also inserts many verses that were parodies of former verses for children. He rewrites them in pure nonsense having no moral or meaning other than pure amusement. "This rejection of typical Victorian manners and education of children supports one of the themes in his Alice books, the idea that a child's imagination has value."(Brown, May Lee) .
Another view Carroll shows through the eyes of Alice is his thoughts on prejudice. In a scene from Alice in Wonderland the cook is violently hurling saucepans, plates, dishes and what ever else she can get her hands on at the Duchess and the baby. At this the Duchess states "If everyone mined their own business the world would go round a deal faster than it does." Alice, thinking this as a great opportunity to show off her knowledge, starts to discuss the Earth's rotation on it's axis. To which the Duchess replies "Talking of axes, chop off her head!" In this passage Carroll shows that .
"adults are cruel, childlike, irresponsible, impulsive, and self-indulgent-- the exact five adjectives Wohl asserts that Victorians attributed to the Blacks and to the lower classes. Carroll manipulates these prejudices and shows how these characteristics also apply to adults, authority figures, and even royalty."(Brown, Catherine Ionata) .
In short the whole scene is a mockery of commonly held prejudices of its day. Another place where the ignorance of prejudices is shown is in Through the Looking Glass. While waking through the "wood where things have no names" Alice meets up with a fawn and they advance through together. Once they depart from the woods the fawn realizes she is a fawn and Alice is a human child. "The fawn scurries away in fear."(Brown, Wendy Voughon) Carroll uses this scene to "make his point that, as in Victorian England, distinctions were drawn not upon knowledge, but upon ignorance and a label."(Brown, Wendy Voughon) Likewise, in the Garden of Live Flowers all the flowers seem to be represented "as different levels within the British social class structure.
