Examples Of Nonsense In Alice In Wonderland

Nonsense as a Theme “It would be so nice if something made sense for a change” Lewis Carrol. The confused Alice, in the book Alice in Wonderland, said this quote. The main theme of this book is one that doesn’t really make any sense. The theme is nonsense. Alice is constantly confused by everything going on because nothing makes sense to her a lot of the decisions she is challenged with are big things that kids do not usually have to think about. Some examples of the nonsense Alice experiences include, changing sizes, being forced to solve puzzles that never made sense, and risking death on multiple occasions. In all of the situations Alice was forced to make sense of nonsense. In the very beginning of the book after Alice fell down the hole, she found a bottle that said

After Alice exited the pool of tears, she found herself amongst a group of other creatures and animals who were all dripping wet from the pool. Soon the mouse of the group called a special kind of race in order to make them dry. He called it a caucus race. Alice was once again confused, and didn’t understand the race at all. It was nonsense. Another time Alice was forced to solve a puzzle was when she was with the mad hatter. She sat at the table with him, and the rabbit, and was immediately bombarded with riddles of which she didn’t understand, and couldn’t make sense of (pg. 46). She was once again, very confused and a tad bit frustrated with the fact that everything was so strange. A little later in the book Alice was yet again given a task she did not understand. She was challenged by the queen to play a supposedly simple game of croquet. When it was time for the game to begin Alice was puzzled to see that for balls and mallets she was expected to use hedgehogs and flamingos. She once again was forced to make sense of nonsense, and make very important