In his book Through the Looking-Glass, the author Lewis Carroll tells of a girl named Alice and her encounter with Humpty Dumpty. Humpty Dumpty is a large egg-like creature that discusses words with Alice. While conversing with Alice, Humpty Dumpty sets up three standards for his world that elaborate on qualities of this alternate place of being; names must have a meaning, words can mean what he chooses them to mean, and he has the ability to interpret and poem.
             First, Alice asks "Must a name mean something?" Humpty's response to this question is "Of course it must." This is the first standard of Humpty Dumpty's world that Carroll sets up; names must have a meaning. The quality set up by this standard is that names are a descriptor rather than just something to call someone by. He goes on to explain that his name has relation to the shape of his body and if the name "Alice" were related to shape it could "be any shape, almost."
             The next standard that Humpty Dumpty sets up is that words will mean exactly what he wants them to mean. He says "When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean-neither more nor less." He first proves this by using the word "glory" of context by saying "There's glory for you!" He uses the word "glory" to mean "a nice knock-down argument." When Alice questions him he simply states that he pays the words wages so that he can use them however he pleases. This personifies the words as if they were human and deserve pay for their work and service to Humpty Dumpty. After this, Dumpty makes the assertion that he "can explain all the poems that ever were invented-and a good many that haven't been invented just yet." This makes it sound like he knows all that has been created and all that will be created. He comes across as if he knows exactly what each and every author meant by their w...