Wonderland’s Issues vs. Government
November 16, 2009As Alice assembles along the shore with all the animals that seem to overrule humans in this Wonderland, they face the obstacle of how to dry themselves. The mouse tells a ‘dry’ tale about William the Conquerer. It is indeed logical to attempt to dry yourself with something dry, but a story? With a failed attempt, the Dodo suggests a caucus race. Could Carroll not only be symbolizing the candidates of an election running around in circles and getting no where, but also the election’s effect on them. An election is a popularity contest, and most often time a dirty fight to win. The animals obviously are not in a dirty fight to win, but to get dry. The candidates of an election seem to be ‘dried’ of the morals and virtue as they battle each other.
After the race, the Dodo says that everybody has won and all must have prizes. The question that arises from this is who will give the prizes? It seems similar to government as well. People complain about the laws and policies of government, about how they do not receive what they should. When people don’t acquire what they need, who do they blame in most cases? The government can account for the most responsibility for the needs of a society’s people. That can almost never be the case, in national governments, the same as schools and offices. In Wonderland, animals have exemplified their authority over humans. Though humans seem to be rarely seen in Wonderland, who is to say the government is not as warped as the positions of Wonderland’ society?
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I’ve written a bit about this in my post, “The Democratic Dodo”.
I admire the connections you made. There were several points beyond the obvious that I didn’t even come close to thinking of in my blog post. The “drying up” of morals was a very interesting point. I, however, disagree with your statement that the government accounts for the most responsibility when people are dissatisfied. I think that people in a bind will find anything to blame when faced with problems. Their boss, their spouse, their own self, their kids in some cases. There is nothing that is spared from the shotgun of blame when bad times come along. So I don’t think the government is the biggest responsibility sink.