Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (1865) - How does the author address Victorian social structure in this novel?
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Les Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles, Lewis Carroll, roman, conte, société victorienne, Royaume-Uni, XIXe siècle, monarchie, classe sociale, classe supérieure, classe moyenne, classe ouvrière, classe populaire, satire, structure sociale, codes sociaux, pouvoir, oppression, critique sociale, anglais
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Rédaction d'un essai en anglais concernant le roman de Lewis Caroll, Les Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles et la représentation des classes sociales à l'ère victorienne.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a children's novel written by Lewis Carroll and published in 1865. [...] Lewis Carroll is a British writer who lived during the Victorian era, under the monarchy of Queen Victoria. Thus, corresponding social codes can be found in the story: each character embodies a social class of the Victorian England [...]. Thus, we are going to discuss how the Victorian social structure was dealt with by Lewis Carroll in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [...].
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La classe supérieure
La classe moyenne
Les classes populaires et ouvrières
La classe supérieure
La classe moyenne
Les classes populaires et ouvrières
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[...] Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (1865) - How does the author address Victorian social structure in this novel? Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a children novel written by Lewis Carroll and published in 1865. In this novel, Alice, a little girl, falls into a rabbit hole and discovers a whole new world, called Wonderland and peopled by strange creatures such as speaking cards or animals. Lewis Carroll is a British writer who lived during the Victorian era, under the monarchy of Queen Victoria. [...]
[...] Alice herself is a little girl from the upper class, since she is refined, educated and always very polite with all the characters she meets during her journey in Wonderland. She also applies perfectly the goods manners and behaviours she was taught: when she is holding the screaming Duchess' baby, she tells him: "Don't grunt ? that's not at all a proper way of expressing yourself" (chapter VI). She also tries to teach good manners to the Mad Hatter and to the March Hare, with a very superior attitude and tone: "'You should learn not to make personal remarks,' Alice said with some severity: "it's very rude.'" (chapter VII). [...]
[...] Indeed, he is a shady character who knows everything about everyone but he is an outcast and does not belong to any other group. Indeed, he keeps appearing then vanishing in all kinds of places: "'You 'll see me there,' said the Cat, and vanished." (chapter VI). Then, these characters are representative of the most underprivileged part of the Victorian society, at the opposite of the upper class comprised of very strong characters in the novel. To conclude, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a novel that alludes to many aspects of the Victorian era's social structure through the characters imagined by Lewis Carroll. [...]
[...] Indeed, we find all the traditional social classes that shaped the Victorian society in the 19th century in Britain, such as the monarchy and the upper class (imitating the cultural and moral codes of Queen Victoria's reign), the middle class, and the lower classes. It could even be said that this novel is a satire of this hierarchized society, staging caricatural characters such as the mad Queen of Hearts, who wants to behead anyone who slightly annoys her. She represents a kind of abuse of power and privileges, while other characters such as the White Rabbit appears as an incarnation of the oppressed lower classes. Alice herself, even if she is only a child, already appears as a very moralizing and strict person. [...]
[...] In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, they are embodied by the royal gardeners who paint the white roses red and the card-soldiers, who are all very dehumanized characters. Their dehumanization is shown by the fact that they are mere cards with human heads, and they are named after the number of their cards: "Five" or "Seven" (chapter X). Moreover, The White Rabbit, always obsessed by the fear of being late, shows the high pace of the working-class life: "the White Rabbit was still in sight, hurrying down it. [...]
