Charles Lutwidge Dogson or popularly known as Lewis Carroll , was a writer of many books. Born in Victorian England, and one of eleven children, had made one of the cleverest stories circled around dreams, and of a wonderland with a fictional character named Alice, called Alice’s Hours in Elfland presently known today as Alice in Wonderland. This story is not so clever because it is a beautifully written story that has been successful and had been made into plays and movies today, but because of the meaning behind it from its two major themes: Dream symbolism and Lewis Carroll’s life itself.

There were many things throughout the movie that have shown dream symbols if people learn what to look for. The beginning of the story had Alice falling through a hole, which means an undesirable situation, which told how Alice did have an undesirable situation how she did not want to read and study but talk to flowers, animals and to have her own little world. After she fell through the hole, she did not immediately drop down onto the ground but she was falling for an extended period of time which symbolized a setback that could be very severe. This could be applied to how she was setback with her studying and reading with her teacher. She had met various animals throughout the story like a rabbit or an ostrich. Animals symbolize problems in dreams and wild animals represent outside of the house, so this corresponds to the problems she had studying with her teacher before she had gotten into her dream. There were also some frequent things in her daily life that also appeared in her dreams. When Alice first starts looking around for the rabbit, she stumbles upon two characters named “Tweedledee, and Tweedledum”, who told Alice to always be polite and to have manners always. This small theme also reoccurred when Alice met the queen. Alice had to be very polite and had to always say your majesty.

Lewis Carroll’s own life was also very involved with his own story, from showing the daily part of his life in England to very personal information about him. When Alice had first started her adventure by meeting the rabbit, the rabbit was very running very late, holding an exaggerated size of a pocket watch. This relates to the daily life in England how time is very important and you can not be late but always on time in England. Alice had walked into an area where it was full of flowers that were singing, yet when they found out that Alice was not one of them, she was excluded from them and kicked out. This relates to Lewis Carroll on how he was excluded from the public world and how he tended to be really private and isolated himself, only to hang out with his family like his eleven siblings or Alice and his cousins. There was also a point in the movie when she had been outgrown where she broke down the house from her size and she called herself a monster. Alice also had gone to take this special route back home, only to be lost right in the middle. She sad down, weeping and crying as different living creatures surrounded her. She moaned of how she hated this world she created and then, she had called herself a monster. That was a key word related to Lewis Carroll. Lewis Carroll always hid himself and kept himself isolated because he too, considered himself a monster to society.

Lewis Carroll is a very clever writer, implying two major themes of dream symbolism and Lewis Carroll’s own life, into what was supposed to be a children’s story. This children’s story had turned out to be more than just that but it also showed a view of life in the eyes of Lewis Carroll and his life. This shows the brilliance of a writer for him to actually input dream symbolism with actual meaning and to input a very important life into a children’s story with not many people ever noticing.