Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (also known as Alice in Wonderland) is a very well known book written by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym of Lewis Carroll in 1865. The book describes the adventures of a young girl who falls into a rabbit whole and experiences many fantastic adventures. The book has been published, has many adaptations for the cinema, television, comics and, up-to-date is very popular among kids as well as adults.
What most people doesn’t know is that Alice in Wonderland is not just a bedtime story, the facts there pictured were just a symbolism to what was happening in the writer’s life or in the Victorian society of the time. For instance: in the eighth chapter, three cards are painting the roses on a rose tree red, because they had accidentally planted a white-rose tree that the Queen of Hearts hates. Red roses symbolized the English House of Lancaster, while white roses were the symbol for their rival House of York. This scene is an allusion to the Wars of the Roses.
To clarify all those possible interpretation the researcher and writer martin Gardner putted together The Annotated Alice, a book in which he compares the original book to notes of the writer as well as social facts of the period to create a parallel between reality and fantasy.
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