and preparation Alice made to be ableto break away.Once more she found herself in the long hall, and close to the little glass table. Now, Ill manage better this time, she said to herself, and began by taking thelittle golden key, and unlocking the door that led into the garden. Then she set towork nibbling the mushroom (she had kept a piece of it in her pocket) till she wasabout a foot high: then she walked down the little passage: and then- she foundherself at last in the beautiful garden, among the bright flower-beds and the coolfountains.The preparation for her chance to enter the garden includes keeping the key as well as alittle piece of mushroom in her pocket so that she would be able to not only unlock thedoor to the garden, but make herself the right size to enter into it. It is apparent that Alice learned from her past mistakes of leaving the key on the tableafter becoming small enough to enter the garden, and then becoming too big to enter it. Alice was also cautious about nibbling slowly on the mushroom, so she would not shrinktoo fast or too much. Everything that Alice went through almost seems worthwhile when she at last enters thebeautiful garden and finds herself among the bright flower-beds and the coolfountains. However, when Alice enters the garden, she finds that she is not yet free from the controlof adults or society.A final scene in which Alices desire to overcome Victorian Englands restrictiveenvironment is the at the trial, when the Queen is giving the Mad Hatter his verdict. Here the adult victims view nicely corresponds with the childs view upgrown-up authority. If a child is called to task, told to remember some rule orduty he has forgotten about or never fully realized he was responsible for, whofeel like the Mad Hatter, who is told Dont be nervous, or Ill have you executedon the spot.The unnecessary power given to the monarchs was one thing mocked by Carroll in thenovel and in this scene in particul...
