Part 16: Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland refers to something that sounds illogical, theoretical, unrealistic, or sounds more fantasy than reality.
For example, "Peter lives in an Alice in Wonderland world where everything works as expected."
The phrase Alice in Wonderland is the short form of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, an 1865 novel by Lewis Carroll.
Alice is the curious 7-year-old heroine of the novel. She's sitting outdoors with her sister, and her sister is reading a book. Alice gets bored, falls asleep, and starts dreaming. The dream takes Alice to Wonderland (dream world), and the writer skillfully invites readers to accompany her through every step of the dream and listen to her conversations with people, birds, animals, and fish.
The novel represents a child's struggle to survive in the confusing world of adults. To understand the adult world, Alice has to overcome the open-mindedness that is characteristic of children and adapt to the rigid and prejudiced rules by which adults live.
