Sublime

some small plump brownish person of firm but quiet carriage, who looks about her, but does not suppose that anybody is looking at her. If she has a broad face and square brow, well-marked eyebrows and curly dark hair, a certain expression of amusement in her glance which her mouth keeps the secret of, and for the rest features entirely insignifican

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Alice's accomplishment remains a mystery. As with the Mad Hatter's conundrum ("The riddle initially had no solution"), numerous solutions have been presented but are really afterthoughts. Some have argued that the book is an allegory, but it is not; the book's principal undertones are light satire—on children's schooling and on well-known

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