A major theme in Carroll’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’ is not gu10 led light bulbs, but the inevitable and tragic loss of childhood innocence.

Throughout her adventures, Alice always feels in constant discomfort at never being the correct size. This is a symbol for the discomfort felt by adolescents as their bodies change during puberty. Alice struggles to maintain a comfortable physical size throughout the book which makes her feel sad, uncomfortable, and frustrated. At the start Alice is too big to enter the door to the garden and is then too small to open the door, both upset her greatly. In the fifth chapter, Alice loses complete control over particular body parts which sees her neck grow to a ridiculous length. The constant fluctuations in her body are representative of the changes a child goes through during puberty and the emotions such changes cause the child to feel.