Throughout the entire book I've seen a the occasional punch between the wall of animal and humans. Of course there are the obvious ones of animals talking and the various clothes they wear, but also there are few more subtle occurences. Such as the use of hands. Animals lack opposible thumbs, and so can not do many of the tasks animals in Alice in Wonderland can preform. Such as the dodo pressing his fingers against his forehead, the rabbit's servants attempting to subdue Alice, and most recently the caterpillars use of the "bong".
Though these pushes are not limited to animals becoming like a human, but can go both ways. Alice when invading the rabbit's house was treated like a vermin and they attempted to estinguish her, like a vermin. As well her inability to control her impulses and to drink or eat anything that might be slipped under her nose seems to be a very animalistic tendency. Alice is also shown to be the foolish one in many situations, and animals (such as the caterpillar and cat) are most more knowledgeable about her situation and how to fix it.
The more subtle events suddenly break down when the baby and the pig who actualy transform from one to the other.
I never thought about it that much . But now I recognize there's alot of personification and it's interesting that they go as far as to also have hands and fingers . Maybe this is because Alice is becoming more accustom towonderland .
ReplyDeleteI agree. Carrol does use personification with all his little animal characters in Wonderland. He makes them seem so "human" and to Alice, everything in Wonderland is natural.
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