Margret’s Comments (group member since Nov 22, 2018)

Margret’s comments from the 50 books to read before you die group.

@Indeneri. I entirely agree. I was also left rather puzzled when reading those passages, the baby-shaking episode in particular. I don’t really understand why an author should wish to include something like that in a story that he knows is going to be read by parents to small children.

All the more puzzling is the fact that we never really get an explanation for why some of the Wonderland inhabitants act the way that they do.

There’s a popular theory out there that each of the characters in Alice in Wonderland is meant to represent a different mental condition, though how much of that is actually valid, I’m not quite sure. If it is, I doubt it was intentional on Lewis Carroll’s part. All the same, it’s an interesting connection.

If you’re a fan of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, you will definitely appreciate this gothic novella.

I read Alice in Wonderland for the first time about a year ago and I must admit that I was never particularly captivated by it. Having grown up watching the 1951 Disney adaptation, perhaps I just expected a little more fun and colour. What I found instead when reading the book was a rather grim and uninviting world that didn’t really appeal much to my imagination. But who knows... perhaps it‘s just one of those children’s books that you have to have grown up with in order to fully appreciate.

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Hi there! My name is Margret and I am one of the new moderators of the group, so nice to meet you.

There has always been a certain degree of enigma surrounding the story of Alice in Wonderland. From the strangeness of Wonderland as a setting to the nonsense-spewing characters, nobody really knows what it’s all supposed to mean ...

What do you think it is about Alice in Wonderland that has made it such an enduring story to this day? Moreover, do you think it even has a meaning at all?

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