Only as a Queen does Alice have the power and restraint to rule her life.
Over the course of the Queen Alice" chapter," Alice is clearly portrayed as a mature, young lady, significantly different from the child who journeyed in Wonderland. She is challenged with a final task of outwitting the nonsensical Red and White Queens. The two queens coerce and bombard Alice with insane riddles. Looking in retrospect, during Alice's first adventure in Wonderland, she could not handle difficult situations, breaking down because of the poor nature of her state. Now, Alice can handle conflict and difficult situations with ease, holding firm to her word. Because "she's in that state of mind," she has the right mentality and perception of the encounter with the Queens, appropriately responding to their endless riddles (252). She navigates her way through encounter with the Queens smoothly. This triumph over the incessant riddles symbolizes her transition from childhood to adulthood, and she is crowned as Queen, crossing the bridge into the adult world.
The end of the world is on the rise. Bask in its glory.
Just as the chapter highlights the inevitable end of Alice's journey to maturity, Hopkins' poem, "Spelt from Sybil's Leaves," depicts the end of life. He utilizes dark imagery and a depressing mood to create a somber tone and image of life and its bleak end. Man and nature alike are doomed to destruction and the end of all ends. Life itself will "disremembering, dismembering" as a result of the oncoming and unavoidable end (Hopkins 175). He utilizes dark and gritty imagery to portray the disheartening and dismal truth of life--all life comes to an end.
Both Carroll and Hopkins portray the transitions of life, whereas one brings child to adulthood and the other from life to nonexistence.
Our fate is sealed. Our End will come.
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