The Hidden Face of Alice

At first sight, the Alice saga seems to be only a couple of stories for children. It is due to the fantastic characters, but it is really a differrent way to see the things. Being Carroll a typic, nineteenth century Englishman, he had to keep the shape that the society wanted to see, in fact, Carroll was extremely rationalist man and he loved mathematics. He wrote various textbooks about it. But he was also a dreamer and he developed a different way to reach objectivity, through subjectivity: he thought you couldn't just try to only see things with objectivity; if so, you wouldn't understand them. first it is necesary to try to find diverse ways to apreciate things, it is necesary to be open minded, only then you would be able to understand and to see everything objectively. This is what Carroll tries to say with the Alice saga. Alice is so curious, she is always wondering about everything, she feels restricted by the society which she lives in, so she finds a refuge in fantasy, but it is not just fantasy. Alice has just dicovered the hidden face of everything. Carroll states that only children are able to discover it because they think with their whole being and not only with their brain, Children are thought to be immature, but Carroll states that this imaturity is really their open mind. from that viewpoint, adults must be a little immature (pure, but this is impossible) in order to reach objectivity. If we think we are mature and objective, it only means that ignorance has never left us. Tryng to be objective without being a little subjectibe before, is useless. It may be the reason for the success of the literature, of writers; they use to be so objective though some of them write fantastic stories, that's the key.