Strangely enough, this poem is very different from the Alice stories. In many editions, however, Lewis Carroll included an Easter Greeting. Through the Looking-Glass is comparable to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland when it comes to the lack of a moral. Lewis Carroll told it solely for the amusement of his child friends.Īlthough the story was expanded for publication, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the author never changed his intentions and it became actually the first children’s book without a moral. Therefore, it was never intended to have a moral. And it took even longer before Lewis Carroll decided to publish it. Only because Alice demanded it, it was written down afterwards. It was told to the real Alice while she was on a boat trip with her sisters. The story of Alice in Wonderland originally was not intended to be a book. The general idea was that stories were meant to educate, not entertain. In the Victorian age, children’s stories were full of morals. Like the Duchess, we are very keen on finding morals in everything.
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