Literary elements

n the following pages you can find texts about of literary elements in the 'Alice' books, which may come in handy when you have to write a school paper or something the like.

The purpose of these pages is not to replace the joy of reading and analysing the books yourself, but they are meant to be a helpful guideline to create your own understanding of the stories.

• Themes and motives
• Setting
• Conflict and resolution, protagonists and antagonists
• Character descriptions
  • Alice
  • Caterpillar
  • Cheshire Cat
  • Jabberwock
  • Mad Hatter
  • Queen of Hearts
  • White Rabbit

`And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject. 
`Ten hours the first day,' said the Mock Turtle: `nine the next, and so on.' 
`What a curious plan!' exclaimed Alice. 
`That's the reason they're called lessons,' the Gryphon remarked: `because they lessen from day to day.'