This paper relates that Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" is the quintessential
portmanteau allegory with themes ranging
from evolution, growing up in an adult world, class structure in Victorian society, meaning and manners and human sexuality; however, the glue that holds these themes together is the plasticity of reality and the subjectivity of meaning. The author points out that in "Alice in Wonderland", the device of the rabbit hole, which establishes the entire underground setting of the book, replicates the cave in the "Allegory of the Cave" from Plato's "Republic" because control, enlightenment and freedom are all prominent in both allegories. The paper explains that many of the bizarre images in Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" are actually literal--or actually figurative since they involve figures--
expressions of figurative expressions, which are actually literal because they involve letters and words. Long quotations. Table of Contents Alice in PlatoLand: The Allegory of Wonder The Cave Properties of the Forms Forms in "Alice in Wonderland" Factor of the Mathematical Pun on 'Remain'