How Does Carroll Use Language To Create An Illusion Of Madness

In the short selection “A Mad Tea Party,” from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, a girl named Alice wonders upon a large table, where she discovers three creatures sitting down including the Dormouse, the March Hare, and the Hatter, who all seem to be having a tea party. As Alice continues to talk to the creatures, she realizes how mad they have gone and leaves a while later. Through Alice’s and the three creature’s conversations, Carroll uses wordplay, ambiguity, and other quirks of language to create an illusion of madness and logic between each of the characters, causing minimal controversy.
In the beginning of the story, Alice notices the large table where three creatures “were all crowded together at one corner of it”
For instance, the Hatter took out his broken watch, that ironically showed the day of the month, but did not tell the time. The Hatter had asked if Alice’s watch told her what year it was and she replied with a sensible answer by saying, “ Of course not, because it stayed the same year for such a long time” and the Hatter answered, “Which is just the case with mine” (3). The Hatter’s denial to determine time objectively, shows his insanity. The March Hare had also tried to put butter in the watch, but quite clearly, that did not resolve anything, so instead, he “gloomily looked at it, then dipped it into his cup of tea, and looked at it again, but he could think of nothing better to say than his first remark, ‘It was the best butter, you know’ (2).” The March Hare was mad before the tea party, but with the time not moving, and it always being six o’clock and tea-time, he was driven further away from his sanity. Alice’s last strike before leaving the tea party was with the Dormouse’s ambiguous story. The story sounded irrational as well as silly. Alice persistently asked many questions because there were many holes in the story and lacked all the details a normal story was supposed to have. The Dormouse’s answer to every question asked was “treacle,” leaving Alice in a state of uncertainty. After a while, the “answers so confused Alice that she let the Dormouse go on for some