Summary of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland:
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a novel written by Lewis Carroll, originally published in 1865. The story follows a young girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world full of peculiar creatures and nonsensical events. Throughout her adventures, Alice encounters a wide array of characters, including the White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Queen of Hearts, and the Caterpillar.
The book is known for its surreal imagery, wordplay, and satirical commentary on Victorian society. It has become a classic of children’s literature and has been adapted into numerous films, plays, and other media.
Alice’s journey through Wonderland is a metaphorical representation of her transition from childhood to adulthood. The challenges and obstacles she faces along the way serve as lessons that help her to grow and mature as a person. Ultimately, she learns to embrace her own identity and sense of self, rejecting the social constraints and expectations that had previously defined her.
The book has become a beloved classic and is often cited as a prime example of Victorian-era literature. Its legacy continues to inspire generations of readers, and its characters and themes have become cultural touchstones in their own right.
1. “Curiouser and curiouser!”
2. “Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle.”
3.“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
4. “I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”
5. “We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”
6. “I’m not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.”
7. “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
8. “Off with their heads!”
9. “Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”
10. “I’m afraid I can’t explain myself, sir. Because I am not myself, you see?”
11. “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?”
12. “Begin at the beginning,” the King said, very gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
13. “It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.”
14. “Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves.”
15. “I’m not particular as to size, only one doesn’t like changing so often, you know.”
16. “Speak English! I don’t know the meaning of half those long words, and I don’t believe you do either!”
17. “I don’t think–”
18. “Then you shouldn’t talk,” said the Hatter.”
19. “If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.”
20. “What is the use of a book, without pictures or conversations?”
21. “But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.
22. “Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”
23. “It’s always tea-time.”
24. “I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.”
25. “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?”
26. “I’m sure I’m not Ada,” she said, “for her hair goes in such long ringlets, and mine doesn’t go in ringlets at all; and I’m sure I can’t be Mabel, for I know all sorts of things, and she, oh! she knows such a very little! Besides, she’s she and I’m I, and–oh dear, how puzzling it all is!”
27. “Oh dear, what nonsense I’m talking!”
28. “It was much pleasanter at home, when one wasn’t always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and rabbits.”
29. “It’s the stupidest tea-party I ever was at in all my life.”
30. “No wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise.”
31. “Well! I’ve often seen a cat without a grin,” thought Alice; “but a grin without a cat! It’s the most curious thing I ever saw in my life!”
32. “Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it.”
33. “Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.”
34. “I’m not afraid of you, you’re only a mouse!”
35. “Twinkle, twinkle, little bat! How I wonder what you’re at.”
36. “The Duchess! The Duchess! Oh my dear paws! Oh my fur and whiskers! She’ll have me executed, as sure as ferrets are ferrets!”
37. “I don’t know what you mean by ‘glory,'” Alice said.
38. “Of course you don’t—till I tell you. I meant ‘there’s a nice knock-down argument for you!'”
39. “It’s really dreadful,” she muttered to herself, “the way all the creatures argue. It’s enough to drive one crazy!”
40. “I have proved by actual trial that a soul is contained in the smallest drop of water.”
41. “It’s a great huge game of chess that’s being played—all over the world—if this is the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is! How I wish I was one of them! I wouldn’t mind being a Pawn, if only I might join—though of course I should like to be a Queen, best.”
42. “But then,” thought Alice. “shall I never get any older than I am now? That’ll be a comfort, one way—never to be an old woman— but then—always to have lessons to learn!”
43. “We called him Tortoise because he taught us,” said the Mock Turtle angrily. “Really you are very dull!”
44. “Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
45. “Off with her head!”, the Queen shouted at the top of her voice.
46. “The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday – but never jam today.”
47. “It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,” the Queen remarked.
48. “Oh, how I wish I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only knew how to begin.”
49. “I’m a poor man, your Majesty,” the Hatter began in a trembling voice, “and I hadn’t begun my tea—not above a week or so—and what with the bread-and-butter getting so thin—and the twinkling of the tea—”
50. “That’s the reason they’re called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.”
51. “But it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
52. “I’m sure those are not the right words,” said poor Alice, and her eyes filled with tears again as she went on, “I must be Mabel after all, and I shall have to go and live in that poky little house, and have next to no toys to play with, and oh, ever so many lessons to learn! No, I’ve made up my mind about it; if I’m Mabel, I’ll stay down here! It’ll be no use their putting their heads down and saying ‘Come up again, dear!’ I shall only look up and say ‘Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I’ll come up: if not, I’ll stay down here till I’m somebody else’—but, oh dear!”
53. “Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, ‘and what is the use of a book,’ thought Alice,
