Passage:
"The first question of course was, how to get dry again...At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of some authority among them, called out "Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! I'll soon make you dry enough!" They all sat down at once, in a large ring, with the Mouse in the middle. Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt sure she would catch a bad cold if she did not get dry very soon. "Ahem!" said the Mouse with an important air. "Are you all ready? This is the driest thing I know, Silence all round, if you please! 'William the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was soon submitted to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been of late much accustomed to usurpation and conquest. Edwin and Morcar, earls of Mercia and Northumbria--'"
Page:
33
Comments and Response:
This scene depicts some of the wackiness that occurs in Wonderland. Instead of the Mouse coming up with an idea that will get everybody dry, in the sense that everybody will no longer be wet, he instead comes up with a dry topic that everybody will find boring. This scene also puts to good use the double meanings that words have in different contexts in this case it being dry. In addition this scene provides the reader that not everything is what it seems in wonderland.
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