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Who's Mad Now?


After many hours of digging and research I have officially decided that Alice in Wonderland has absolutely no outlining themes or morals or relations to math. (Honestly, relating math and literature should just be a sine, cos that’s bad. But that’s a tangent for another day. (God, math puns are like bad, but not even a fun bad, like a non-creative bad) It’s simply a man telling a story to entertain a bored little girl on a boat ride, that she begged him to write down. After hours of begging, he finally did. It got published and everyone has been digging for deeper meaning ever since. All theories and ideas about social status and political ideology are just people blowing smoke. People trying to look smarter than they really are. Another quick tangent, I understand that Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, did not care for the ‘new’ math, (Everyone hates Algebra, like why) but he really enjoyed explain it. (He wrote several books on the subject, so.) So why would he write an entire abstract book about why he disliked it? Why is that a theory? It falls apart immediately. Also Lewis Carell was not a drug addict, nor was he a pedophile and Alice wasn’t in a metal asylum nor did she ever seem to have any mental disabilities or so on and so forth. They had a relationship that some felt to be odd, and downright wrong to others. Charles had social anxieties, he felt like being around adults troublesome and it felt like a lot of work to him. Yet children helped him be more at ease with himself. Now, some things he did was odd, (Though nude photoshoots of girls weren’t as weird as it seems now. (Though it’s still weird)) But as far as it concerns of the public, they had a healthy relationship. However, the original Disney animation is filled with Drug and psychedelic themes, due to the creation staff being “artsy men” living in the 50’s. AKA they did drugs while creating the movie and drew a lot of inspiration from that. Now lastly I do want to just mention, I didn’t know the man. I haven’t read all his work (because ewh math) Heck, I haven’t even read all his poems and stories. So, I’m sure some characters are based on actual people or his world views and maybe some of the concepts are influenced by his anger or love towards math, but what the story is ACTUALLY about, is just a story to entertain a little bored girl on a boating trip in Oxford.

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