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The Symbolic Meaning Of Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

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When I was younger and read Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the eponymous heroine’s fluctuation in size was something that I interpreted literally; the completion of tasks that moved her from one part of her journey to the next was, after all, only possible if she changed in size. As a young reader I did not assign symbolic meaning to Alice’s size, but clues to its symbolic meaning still stood out to me. Alice makes more discoveries while she is small and vulnerable. Growth, on the other hand, makes her more awkward, but also leads her to take more incisive action. It was one of her final moments of action that alerted me to the symbolism during my second reading of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; in chapter twelve, her growth is so sudden

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