Is Chaos really Chaos in Alice’s Wonderland?

Abstract

Order is chaos, chaos is order.

Scientific discoveries have always kept mankind on the hooks. Be it Copernicus or Galileo, Einstein or Stephen Hawking, something new has always been added to the ultimate phenomenon called ‘Science’. One such theory that brought about a revolution in the scientific world in the 1960s is Chaos theory. Putting all the scientists in awe, it forced them to question their beliefs about nature and its actions: a new theory that proposed everything that appears to be organized and well structured is, in reality, a mosaic of ordered chaos and that which looks to be un-organized and non-structured, in fact, follows a pattern which makes it look like chaos. Every disorder is an order of disorder. Since literature is also closely linked to Chaos theory, the present paper endeavours to explore the same via Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has been critically analyzed from various points of view. This paper, however, will attempt to show how the text is closely connected to chaos theory. The chaos that ensues in Wonderland is not chaos in actuality.