This thesis offers a comparative study of "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll and "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi. Focused on the use of rebellion and subversion as a means of...Show moreThis thesis offers a comparative study of "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll and "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi. Focused on the use of rebellion and subversion as a means of societal critique, this research uses Mikhail Bakhtin's idea of the carnivalesque, polyphony, and chronotope to analyse the placement of the characters in each story, as well of the book itself in the larger genre contexts. The research in this thesis will offer insight into one of the many reasons these stories have set themselves apart from their peers, and why they have become so seminal in the development of multiple literary genres. These children's books have set themselves apart from all peers, and have become indispensable reading for any children's literature author, as the children in these stories fall into the in-between of being epic and polyphonous, of being parody and satire, becoming objects of a statement of power that is both incredibly outspoken for its time, yet culpably unimplicated in relevant debates.Show less
