Alice begins as a curious young girl, but unlike the idealized image of a Victorian girl, she courageously enters Wonderland and asserts herself against to some dismissive and others downright hostile. creatures. Among the inhabitants of Wonderland, the Duchess and the Cook are dissatisfied with their servile and maternal roles respectively, and they express this in aggressive and physical ways that do not conform to Victorian ideals of women from the "world above." ". The Queen of Hearts is equally aggressive, abusing her power and using violence to solve her problems independent of her husband. Thus, the female presence in Wonderland shows no capacity to transform Alice into the gentle, domestic mother envisioned by Victorian society. However, Alice's triumph in returning "above the world" with her confidence and independence intact may be a metaphor in which Carroll suggests that women's repressed feelings, symbolized by the discontented women of Wonderland, could eventually emerge into reality, just like Alice