Alice in Wonderland, the most famous work of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, is the enduring story of a young girl's journey into a world of fantasy and imagination. The story was written for the enjoyment of all children, as Carroll had a strong love and attachment for them, especially little girls. It was, however, written more specifically for a near and dear childhood friend of hers named Alice Liddell, who inspired the main character. Alice in Wonderland has, over the years since its publication in 1865, been continually deconstructed, analyzed and studied to determine the underlying meaning of the text (as in Martin Gardner's The Annotated Alice). One of the most remarkable and famous facets of the story concerns the many size changes that Alice goes through. Alice changes size eleven times to adapt to her changing situation in the tale. This is easily seen in Disney's animated interpretation of the story years ago. Throughout the book, Alice has the ability to change her size several times, which helps her enter and exit different situations and locations in Wonderland. Alice achieves this by eating and drinking different tonics and pieces of mushrooms. It is interesting to note that the period in which Carroll wrote and published Alice was the same time that Charles Darwin wrote and published his landmark book The Origin of Species in which he puts forward the now universally known ideas about the evolution and survival of species. the fittest. Darwin developed these ideas while serving as a naturalist on the ship Beagle from 1831 to 1836. During this period, he studied the wildlife of the Galapagos Islands and was amazed by the great diversity of life. He was particularly interested in the island's birds, whose beaks were highly adapted to their particular eating habits and lifestyle. (Coincidentally, in one of the first scenes of Wonderland, Alice comes to land with a group of different birds.) Carroll may have been inspired by the emerging science of the time to have his main character change size according to their needs and difficult situation. Alice also seems to improve and become more comfortable with changing size over time, and a parallel between evolution and Alice can be drawn on this point, in that as evolution progresses , it becomes more refined. Lewis Carroll...... middle of paper ......bsp; Alice in Wonderland, the work of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, is the enduring tale of a young girl's journey into a world of fantasy and imagination due to its multi-faceted meaning levels that exist within. The story was written for the enjoyment of all children, but as Carroll himself wrote, "we (adults) are just older children, my dear." » (499). Inspired by a close and dear friend of hers named Alice Liddell, Alice from Alice in Wonderland was the mediator between childhood and adulthood, remaining innocent and experimenting for over a hundred years. One of the most remarkable and famous facets of the story concerns the many size changes that Alice undergoes, an evolutionary phenomenon that was brought to the forefront of scientific and everyday life in the Victorian era by the revolutionary thinker and naturalist Darwin. Charles Darwin wrote and published his landmark book The Origin of Species at the same time that Carroll's arguably equally famous book was written and published, a coincidence that cannot be overlooked when looking at the..