The вЂњundergroundвЂќ part of the old title undeniably suggests drawing parallells to the direction of Dante or the Holy Bible.Д¬ontinuing in this direction, the wonderful garden, into which Alice wants to get, can be a symbol of the Garden of Eden. Considering the fact, that the first manuscript was called AliceвЂ™s Adventures Underground, and that some - at least the Swedish - translation of the title is a bit ambiguous, it becomes more apparent, that the world Alice enters isnвЂ™t just any childrensвЂ™ playground, but a somewhat frightening and dangerous place for maturing. The poem in chapter 12 hints at forbidden love, and it is entirely possible that it is about his platonic love for children, or Mrs. Time matters in growing up, I guess, but further interpretations are left unsaid. The HatterвЂ™s watch shows days because вЂњitвЂ™s always six oвЂ™ clock and tea-timeвЂќ. Is it that everyone alive is mad being alive, or everyone dreaming him- or herself away is mad due to the escape from reality? Time is a very central theme in the story. The quote вЂњEveryone in Wonderland is mad, otherwise they wouldnвЂ™t be down hereвЂќ told by the Cheshire Cat can be given an existential meaning. Alice doesnвЂ™t like the animals in Wonderland who treat her as a child, but sometimes she gets daunted by the responsibility she has to take. Her feelings are very shaken from her adventures and she cries quite often when itвЂ™s impossible to obey the rules of the Wonderland - or is it adulthood? вЂњEverything is so out-of-the-way down hereвЂќ, as Alice often repeats to herself. She talks to her feet and learns some of the new ways her body works in. One other example of maturing is Alice getting used to the new sizes she grows. The hesitation so typical of adolescent girls is reflected in AliceвЂ™s thoughts: вЂњShe generally gave herself good advice (though she very seldom followed it).вЂќ Many short comments point to teenage recklessness, restlessness and anxiety in all its different forms. The theme with Alice growing and shrinking into different sizes could reflect the ups and downs of adolescence with young people sometimes feeling adult and sometimes quite the opposite. ThereвЂ™s a lot of humour in the first Alice book, but in the second the mood gets a bit darker and more melancholic. The part with the mad tea-party is one of the best examples of this. Perhaps it is an escape into literature he hints at. Lewis Carroll describes the fall into the rabbit-hole as very long and he mentions bookshelves on the sides of the hole. She hasnвЂ™t got any help at all from home or the world outside of Wonderland. All the time, Alice finds herself confronted in different situations involving various different and curious animals being all alone. The underlying story, the one about a girl maturing away from home in what seems to be a world ruled by chaos and nonsense, is quite a frightening one. From the looks of it, the story about Alice falling through a rabbit-hole and finding herself in a silly and nonsense world, is fairly guileless as a tale. They also consider it being a tale of the вЂњvariations on the debate of genderвЂќ and that itвЂ™s вЂњcontinually astonishing us with its modernityвЂќ. Many people have seen AliceвЂ™s Adventures in Wonderland as a prime example of the limit-breaking book from the old tradition illuminating the new one. It could, of course, having in mind the fact that he was a cleric, be the Christian Trinity or something completely different. The ever-occurring number of three points out Dodgson always having in mind the three girls he tells the story to. This, it is said, was the inspiration to the second chapter of the book, The Pool of Tears. On one of these excursions it started raining heavily and they all became soaked. It is said that he used to row out on picnics with the Liddell girls and tell them stories. The part considering rowing on happy summer days was derived directly from reality. In the introductory poem to the tale, there are clear indications to the three, there named Prima, Secunda and Tertia - Latin for first, second and third respectively in feminized forms. It is very obvious in the story that it was written for the three Liddell girls, of whom Alice was the closest to Dodgson. It is important to bear in mind that AliceвЂ™s Adventures in Wonderland, however special it may seem and however many different interpretations one thinks one can find, is, after all, but a story written to entertain Charles DodgsonвЂ™s favourite child-friends. Reproduced with permission from the author. HII, Katedralskolan, Uppsala, Sweden, March 1997. The following text is a small part of a project from: An Analysis of AliceвЂ™s Adventures in Wonderland

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