Illogical Logic, Irrational Rationalization.
November 5, 2009After Alice eats the cake, she grows more than nine feet tall. She speaks of her feet as if they were not even part of her body, like they were people with their own personalities. She first talks about how she will ship new boots to her feet each Christmas, then she realizes
”how funny it’ll seem, sending presents to one’s own feet!”
She worries about how strange the directions will look when sending something to her own feet before even realizing the logic of what she is saying. The fact is that this is completely illogical and only begins this trend. She is aware that it is indeed strange of her to speak of the nonsense in sending boots to her own feet.
When she cannot get into the garden once again, she begins to cry. She begins to scold herself irrationally, as she explained she did earlier when playing a game of croquet with herself. It isn’t that her crying is irrational, after all I would cry if I grew to nine feet tall in a few moments. It’s simply the reason for her crying: growing so much so quickly. Children do not scold themselves. They dread to be scolded. The childish element of this part of the story is that there literally is a pool of tears.
Alice abruptly quits crying when the white rabbit distracts her by returning. She is desperate for help and seems to scare the rabbit away when she asks help of him. She begins to think of the possibilities of why her day has been so unusual. It seems illogical when she wonders,
”Who in the world am I?”…and…”if I’ve been changed in the night?”
To think of reason for the day’s peculiarity would be logical. However to be changed into a different person over night? Not so much. This entire story thus far seems like a story of illogical logic, the reason for the rabbit’s rush versus the reason he is even speaking, the solution to Alice’s size issues versus the reason for her changing so radically and Alice’s social inclination to worry about offending someone versus the fact that she has offended a mouse are only a few examples.
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First of all, the title intrigued me to come to this blog post. I really do think that this title really does justice for the argument.
Everything in Wonderland seems to be illogical to our world. I think the examples provide a very clear picture for your argument. I relished the first example of Alice and her feet the most because it is a major theme in the book as well as providing concrete evidence fro your argument.
Very well executed. I appreciate all of the concepts that you can cover with a limited amount of words.