FULL TITLE · Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
AUTHOR · Lewis Carroll
TYPE OF WORK · Novella
GENRE · Fairy tale; children’s fiction; satire; allegory
LANGUAGE · English
TIME AND PLACE WRITTEN · 1862–1863, Oxford
DATE OF FIRST PUBLICATION · 1865
PUBLISHER · Macmillan & Co.
NARRATOR · The narrator is anonymous and does not use many words to describe events in the story.
POINT OF VIEW · The narrator speaks in third person, though occasionally in first and second person. The narrative follows Alice around on her travels, voicing her thoughts and feelings.
TONE · Straightforward; avuncular
TENSE · Past
SETTING (TIME) · Victorian era, circa publication date
SETTING (PLACE) · England, Wonderland
PROTAGONIST · Alice
MAJOR CONFLICT · Alice attempts to come to terms with the puzzle of Wonderland as she undergoes great individual changes while entrenched in Wonderland.
RISING ACTION · Alice follows the White Rabbit down a well and pursues him through Wonderland.
CLIMAX · Alice gains control over her size and enters the garden, where she participates in the trial of the Knave of Hearts.
FALLING ACTION · Alice realizes that Wonderland is a sham and knocks over the playing card court, causing her to wake up and dispel the dream of Wonderland.
THEMES · The tragic and inevitable loss of childhood innocence; Life as a meaningless puzzle; Death as a constant and underlying menace
MOTIFS · Dream; subversion; language; “curious,” “nonsense,” and “confusing”
SYMBOLS · The garden; the mushroom
FORESHADOWING · The Mouse’s history about Fury and the Mouse foreshadows the trial at the end of the story.
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