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A 7 page essay that discusses Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling are children's books that share many points in common, as they both present fantastical worlds and fairy tale narratives that are drastically different from reality. The Harry Potter series, in general, has been the source of controversy because the premise entails presenting Harry as a young wizard capable of doing feats of magic, which some fundamentalist Christian organizations have found objectionable. Alice has also generated controversy in that scholarly tomes have been formulated by critics regarding the meaning of Carroll's use of symbol and allegory. Examination of these two books shows that, of the two, Harry is the more conventional in its approach, as it upholds and maintains middle-class values and ethics. No additional sources cited.
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both present fantastical worlds and fairy tale narratives that are drastically different from reality. The Harry Potter series, in general, has been the source of controversy because the premise entails
presenting Harry as a young wizard capable of doing feats of magic, which some fundamentalist Christian organizations have found objectionable. Alice has also generated controversy in that scholarly tomes have
been formulated by critics regarding the meaning of Carrolls use of symbol and allegory. Whether or not Carroll intended the interpretations that been attributed to Alice, it is clear that
throughout the book, he parodies, satirizes and generally makes merciless fun of the pompousness of Victorian society. Examination of these two books shows that, of the two, Harry is the
more conventional in its approach, as it upholds and maintains middle-class values and ethics. Undoubtedly, everyone in Western culture is familiar with the story of Alice and how she
fell down a rabbit hold into a nonsensical land where animals talk and playing cards come to life. While modern children reading this classic still appreciate its light-hearted joy and
the nonsense that abounds in it, many readers do not realize that within Carrolls text are jokes, puns and satire that addresses some of the institutions of Victorian society. In
his introduction to The Annotated Alice, Martin Gardner relates some of the complex meanings that have been attributed to Alice. For example, he tells how one scholar asserts that Alice
is a "secret history of religious controversies of Victorian England" (Gardner ii). According to this theory, the reference to orange marmalade refers to William of Orange and is, therefore, a
symbol of Protestantism (Gardner ii). As this indicates, some of the associations that Alice has generated are rather far-fetched. However, it is clear that there are numerous references to Victorian
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