How Does Alice Change Throughout The Novel

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was written by Lewis Carroll in the year of 1865. The heroine of his story is a six-year-old girl named Alice Liddel. Alice enters the world of Wonderland after falling down a rabbit-hole on a sleepy afternoon. Subsequently, Alice changes during the course of the book in two significant ways: physically and psychologically. These changes were introduced in the beginning of her adventures and play substantial roles throughout the story. The first changes Alice that encounters are physical. She shrinks numerous times to get herself out of tight situations (she finds herself in a literal ‘tight problem’ periodically throughout the story) but sometimes shrinks into small problems (In chapter five, Alice declares that “Three inches is such a wretched height!” since she was unable to reach the key and various other problems she encountered with being small). Alice grew and kept growing taller, getting stuck in the White Rabbit’s …show more content…
The first mental change is in her memory. In chapter five, she declares that she “can’t remember things the way she used to.” To begin with, she cannot recall the things she’s learned in school. She forgets how to speak with proper grammar in chapter three. And then, Alice lists the Multiplication Table incorrectly, saying that, “Four times five is twelve and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is – oh dear!” After that, she attempts to recall Geography, but she remembers that incorrectly as well. Alice then recites “How Doth the Little Busy Bee,” but, as described in chapter three, “Her voice sounded hoarse and strange, and the words did not come out the same as they used to.” Next, in chapter five, the caterpillar tells her to recite “You are Old, Father William,” and in chapter ten, Alice was also instructed to recite “The Lobster-Quadrille” to the Mock Turtle but they, like all the others, it came out