Alice In Wonderland Character Analysis

In order to classify a story as a fairy tale, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the story must be a tale containing actual fairies, an imaginable artificial story, or an absolute dishonest story. Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass are not novels about fairies or are completely false stories, but they do contain imaginable artificial plots in which a young girl named Alice travels to different worlds in her dreams. Through the creative adventure of these dream stories, one could vaguely qualify them as a fairy tale. Tolkien's perspective opposes the label of fairy tales to Alice stories by which he states that dream stories may be a fantasy of the mind, but lose their realization when Alice wakes up back in the real
The scene where Alice finds herself in the Queen’s croquet garden where the Queen’s deck of cards are painting the roses red because they painted white roses by mistake is a great example of an unreal setting. Through the analysis of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, Alice interacts with many different characters. These characters are either animals or completely made up characters who have humanistic traits of man where they can walk, talk, and participate in activities that Alice herself would participate in real life such as croquet or having tea. In Alice’s dreams, the characters can express their thoughts and inner emotions through communication that would not be true if it was her reality. Alice, though realizes at the end of the story that the once alive and active characters of her pure imagination are inanimate nonvocal or made up entities. These characters are well developed and behave in ways she could see humans behaving in the real world. For example, Tweedledee and Tweedledum are quite unintelligent and could represent young boys Alice may interact with the real life. The idea of the Caterpillar’s blatant rudeness and disrespect is another example of above ground behavior from humans that Alice may react