Violence in the poems in the Alice books and Lewis Carroll's Intended Audience

Some of the main points in this paper include:

Alice ends up in a world that 'provides her inquisitive mind with opportunities to explore and question.'

The books are suited for adults.

Alice seems to have attended her lessons and is well taught.

How Doth the Little Crocodile poem emphasizes predator-prey relationships.

Some of his written material ridicules Victorian moralizing.

The Mouse's Tale emphasizes mindless destruction and violence which threatens the innocent and the defenseless.

The scene with the Duchess and her baby shows violence in the poem in treating the child roughly and beating the child.

The poem could reflect Lewis Carroll's hostility towards young boys.

Jabberwocky is another poem that emphasizes violence.

Humpty Dumpty makes fun of the literary critic.

The Walrus and the Carpenter is another poem that emphasizes violence.

The Queen's constant saying of 'Off with their heads' again shows a tendency towards violence (althoug the King seems to cancel all the beheadings.)

The work shows how children can be taught one way of behavior but the adults follow a different pattern of behavior.