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Essay / Literary Analysis of Alice in Wonderland - 2314
Welcomed by a frog footman who is completely unaffected by the flying dishes and loud noises that occur in the house, this shows that the inhabitants of Wonderland find absolute chaos to be something normal. Upon entering the house, Alice finds the Duchess nursing a screaming baby and treats him very roughly while the cook throws dishes at them. A Cheshire cat, curled up, smiles at the scene. Alice finds it all strange and scary, but everyone seems to think it's normal behavior. A smiling cat? A cook who throws dishes at a baby? The Duchess shaking the baby and singing him a horrible lullaby? We could not find this normal. Once the Duchess leaves, Alice thinks she is helping the baby by taking him outside, only to see him turn into a pig. When Alice meets the Cheshire Cat a few minutes later, he asks what happened to the baby. When Alice responds and tells him that he turned into a pig, the cat acts so nothing is strange about that. Which once again shows the difference between the inhabitants of Wonderland and Alice. However, Alice begins to believe that maybe she isn't so different from the people of Wonderland when the Cheshire Cat tells her that she wouldn't be here if she wasn't as angry as Alice. them. Which causes Alice to once again question her identity. Is she weird?