Drugs in Alice in Wonderland

She clearly is feeling too relaxed to want to get up but ends up seeing a strange White Rabbit run by her. The connection between these two quotes is that it represents another positive effect of drugs. ” This can be a reference to Godfrey's Cordial, which is the most popular mixture in Victorian England; it contained opium, treacle, water, and spices (Wohl) since she does talk about a good tasting mixture that ends up acting as a drug. In Victorian times opium was processed into tea called Poppy tea (Wohl).

The Dormouse in chapter seven is very tired and just sleeps; “…a Dormouse was sitting between them, fast asleep, and the other two were using hit as a cushion…” The Dormouse is on character in the Mad-Tea Party. It is quoted “…this time she found a little bottle on it (“which certainly was not here before,” said Alice), and ties round the neck of the bottle was a paper label, with the words “DRINK ME” beautifully printed on it in large letters. This is quoted on page 33; “One side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter. “However, this bottle was not marked “poison,’ so Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it very nice (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavour taste of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffy, and hot buttered toast), she soon finished it off. ”” The Dormouse is under the influence of the drugs which make him sleep, sleeping is the only way he can escape the reality of living in the same time forever which is how the Hatter and the March Hare live, because it is always six o’clock which is tea time. Another reason why the liquid in the bottle can be consider a drug is simply because it alters her body.

Alice meets the famous Caterpillar, which is sitting upon a mushroom smoking out a hookah. Opium use was common and Lewis Carroll just wanted to explain the numerous benefits of using it. He focuses on using Alice (protagonist) to experience different drugs that alter certain things without showing her as becoming paranoid or etc. On page four Alice sees the bottles and sees that the sign is very attractive to her. It seems that Alice is experienced with drug use because again she is not scared by the effect; she just analyzes and accepts it, “What a curious feeling!” said Alice.