Alice in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland' is dreaming and there is no way for me as a reader to tell what physical abilities she may have awake; could Alice have a physical disability? As a reader with Cerebral Palsy, I think yes, in this paper I will interpret Alice as disabled.
There are some passages that I find interesting as they seem to be confirming my theory. The way the Caucus Race is described is "All the party were placed along the course here and there. There was no 'One, two, three, and away' but they began running when they liked and left off when they liked..."...
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