SUBVERSION OF AUTHORITY IN "ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND"

The majority of children’s books are written by adults, thus, they inevitably show the image adults have in their mind about children/ childhood or how children should be like. The first part of our paper reveals the adult’s wish to educate, manipulate or instruct children through these books. However, the outcome of this manipulation mirrors the child’s possibility for achieving some form of autonomy in the worlds created by the adults. Consequently, we will analyse how these narratives increase the children’s agency and their self-awareness in a manner that subverts the adults’ authority