Memorable Passage

Alice in Wonderland

“Fury said to

        a mouse, That

          he met in the

            house, Let

              us both go

                to law: I

                  will prose—

                    cute you.—

                  Come I’ll

                take no

              denial: We

            must have

          the trial;

        For really

      this morning

    I’ve

  nothing

  to do.

   Said the

    mouse to

     the cur,

      ’Such a

        trial, dear

          sir. With

            no jury

             or judge,

              would

             be wasting

            our

          breath.’

       ’I’ll be

      judge,

     I’ll be

    jury,’

   said

  cunning

   old

    Fury:

     ’I’ll

        try

          the

            whole

              cause,

                and

               condemn

             you to

          death.’”

            Over this summer I got a GIANT book of everything that Lewis Carrol and ever gotten published. I decided that many of his thought, although amusing, told it like it was.  This passage talks about a pair of creatures that are having a dispute, one believes he’s been wronged by the other. The Fury did not give the mouse a chance to explain himself nor did they try to work out their dispute. Instead, the Fury immediately took the mouse to court, but it was not the court that most people think. In this court the Fury is the judge and the jury, overall the deciding factor. People in real life do this, before the final word is spoken they already decide in their head if the person is guilty or not. Humans seem to want to condemn people to death when the person condemning has done something far worse.