Critiqueing Society and Disappearing Logic Down the Rabbit Hole

Abstract

The novel Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland was a revolutionary novel at the time of its release as it introduced a brand-new way of writing children’s novels. Several attempts have been made to understand the novel, and analyze its deeper meaning, but that has been difficult with such a purposefully obscure and nonsensical novel. Arguments can be made that this nonsensical structure is a literary instrument that serves to challenge the strict rules of the times. This paper uses the 1865 novel by Lewis Carroll and the 1951 film adaptation Alice in Wonderland produced by Walt Disney to investigate the extent to which one can read Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol as a critique of logic and society’s need for answers.