Great Paper: "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carrol ~A game with the Queen~

Great Paper: Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol 

~A Game with the Queen~

In Alice in Wonderland life is a dream. Throughout the entire first half of the story, there doesn't seem to be any sort of rules or guidelines to any of the things that happen. Magic cakes that make you shrink to the size of a mouse, Conversations with smoking blue caterpillars and disappearing Cats, philosophical Tea parties with Hares and door-mice. The land that Alice find herself is more than a little bit of a wonder. Towards the end of her journey Alice meets another character of wonderland, that makes even less sense of the premise of wonderland itself. The Queen of hearts, and her army of animated playing cards. As Alice is invited to play a game of croquet with the queen, she discovers that the rules of this game are queerer than any, and the consequences involved in playing could very easily mean losing ones head. But that really already seems to have happened since the beginning of the story. Check Alice out as she competes with the royalty of Wonderland!

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The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo. 

She succeeded in getting its body tucked away, comfortably enough, under her arm, with its legs hanging down. 

But generally, just as she had got its neck nicely straightened out, and was going to give the hedgehog a blow with its head, it would twist itself round and look up in her face, with such a puzzled expression that she could not help bursting out laughing. 

And when she finally had got its head down, and was going to begin again, it was very provoking to find that the hedgehog had unrolled itself, and was in the act of crawling away. 

Besides all this, there was generally a ridge or furrow in the way wherever she wanted to send the hedgehog to, and, as the doubled-up soldiers were always getting up and walking off to other parts of the ground, Alice soon came to the conclusion that it was a very difficult game indeed.

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So, in essence; Take something pink and ridiculous; flip it upside down(make sure the neck is straight!) and hit that hedgehog over there into that hoop(made by soldiers bending over). And finally, while we play this sport make sure you don't mess up, or the queen will go off and yell "off with their heads!". I can't say for sure what this was about exactly, but it may have been Lewis Carrol's rendition of how the numerous ridiculous ettoquittes of prickely upper class citizens of Elizabethan England might look like to a younger person. Self-propagated and Self-enforced Rule's that could single handedly determine the entirety of a person's social standing and credibility. Alice couldn't help but laugh at the blatantly honest confusion of the flamingo, and i don't think i would have behaved any differently given the format of the circumstances.