STUDY QUESTIONS

1. Discuss the novel AliceÂ’s Adventures in Wonderland as a typical representative of ChildrenÂ’s Literature.

2. Discuss the significance of "logic and language" that is used in AliceÂ’s Adventures in Wonderland.

3. What is Carol’s explanation of the ‘Education System’ of his times?

4. In what ways would the novel AliceÂ’s Adventures in Wonderland be significant to the adult reader?

5. "Fairy Tales are meant to have a moral. They are not vehicles of pleasure."

6. Would you agree with the above statement? Discuss AliceÂ’s Adventures in Wonderland with reference to the above statement.

7. Discuss AliceÂ’s Adventures in Wonderland as a piece of modern literature.

8. "TodayÂ’s Wonder-World Needs Alice" - W H Auden. Do you agree with AudenÂ’s observation.

9. Discuss the character of White Rabbit as presented in AliceÂ’s Adventures in Wonderland.

10. Discuss the significance of the poems in AliceÂ’s Adventures in Wonderland.

11. ‘Fairy Tales are a means through which children and adults escape from the empirical reality to a world of imagination (Escapist Literature)’. IS this applicable to Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

12. Discuss the character of Alice.

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