Identity

After reading through the Looking Glass and Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol there is a clear theme of identity. Where young Alice Little has a lot of stang meeting with different “unrealistic”, people throughout her journey. One of Alice’s dialogues, she talks to Humpty Dumpty in this conversation Alice really question who she is and how she knows she is. At the beginning of the chapter, Alice realized the identity of the egg-shaped object that was before her, Alice says ” the egg only got larger and larger, and more and more human: when she had only come within a few yards of it, she saw it had eyes and a nose and mouth; when she had come close, she saw that it was HUMPTY DUMPTY himself”.

As Alice questions Humpty, he explains the reason why he sits alone and also why is her is named that and the meaning behind it. Humpty thinks that Alice’ identity is not portrayed right which causes her to lose the sense of knowing ones’ self.

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