History Fridge / AlicesAdventuresInWonderland

* For [[Theatre/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland the ballet]]: The twist ending, where [[spoiler: Alice turns out to be a young 21st century woman dreaming she was Alice Liddell]] not only explains the ballet's departures from the book, but is the only way that Alice and Jack's love story could have had a happy ending. [[spoiler: If she really had been Alice Liddell and Jack really had been a gardener's boy, their romance would have been doomed, because Alice Liddell eventually married Reginald Hargreaves. But in modern times, they can live HappilyEverAfter.]]

* The opening line of "the Walrus and the Carpenter." It talks about how brightly the sun was shining, and how "this was odd, because it was the middle of the night." Some might dismiss this as Carroll just being silly as usual. But one of the protagonists of this poem is a ''walrus.'' Where do walruses live? Way up north, near the North Pole, where the sun often ''does'' shine late into the "night." Parts of northern Europe are even called "the land of the midnight sun."

* The Cheshire Cat tells Alice that she must be mad, or she wouldn't have come to Wonderland. Alice's inner monologues also reveal that while she's the OnlySanMan in Wonderland, she's actually quite a bit of a CloudCuckoolander. When we remember that Wonderland is AllJustADream, it all makes perfect sense: all the madness of Wonderland is a manifestation of Alice's own strangeness, because it's all the creation of her own mind.

* When Alice is at the Mad Hatter's tea party, she notices that his watch shows days but not hours. When she asks why, he asks if her watch shows what year it is. Which seems like nonsense--until you remember that ''it's always teatime for him''. Why bother having a watch that shows the same time forever?

* Humpty-Dumpty tells Alice he thinks she should have stopped aging when she reached seven. She objects that one cannot prevent oneself from aging, and he replies that she ''could'' have stopped aging at seven if only she'd had "[[WouldHurtAChild proper]] [[DeathTropes assistance]]"... Since Wonderland is AllJustADream, and thus Humpty-Dumpty is a projection of Alice's psyche, could Alice [[FridgeHorror be suppressing]] [[DeathSeeker a darker, almost suicidal, side]] [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness to her mental state]]?

* Humpty-Dumpty tells Alice he thinks she should have stopped ageing when she reached seven. She objects that one cannot prevent oneself from ageing, and he replies that she ''could'' have stopped ageing at seven if only she'd had "[[WouldHurtAChild proper]] [[DeathTropes assistance]]"... Since Wonderland is AllJustADream, and thus Humpty-Dumpty is a projection of Alice's psyche, could Alice [[FridgeHorror be suppressing]] [[DeathSeeker a darker, almost suicidal, side]] [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness to her mental state]]?

* Humpty-Dumpty tells Alice he thinks she should have stopped ageing when she reached seven. She objects that one cannot prevent oneself from ageing, and he replies that she ''could'' have stopped ageing at seven if only she'd had "[[WouldHurtAChild proper]] [[DeathTropes assistance]]"... Since Wonderland is AllJustADream, and thus Humpty-Dumpty is a projection of Alice's psyche, could Alice [[FridgeHorror be suppressing]] [[DeathSeeker a darker, almost suicidal, side]] [[DespairEventHorizon to her mental state]]?