“Never imagine that you are not other than what it might appear to others that what you were or could have been was not other than what you had been to them would have seemed otherwise. » (Carroll 105). This and advice like this is often dispensed by the Duchess in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Alice, and like the transition from child to adult, the advice is usually rarely fully understood, or even difficult to follow. to understand. Many illustrators have set themselves the task of giving a clear picture of Alice's struggle to triumph over childhood and nonsense and enter the realm of adults and logic. Angel Dominguez shows Alice's struggle to grow up and escape childhood, a major theme of the text, in such a way that the audience can almost feel her anxiety. The use of the body language of Alice, the Duchess, and the animals supporting them, in addition to compositional elements such as proximity and framing, is a primary mechanism of Dominguez's for evoking Alice's anxiety and highlight the uncomfortable transition to maturity alone while dealing with the pressures and advances of an adult world. Dominguez primarily uses facial expressions to convey emotion in his illustrations, and that of “Alice and the Duchess” is no exception. The looks on the faces of the Duchess and Alice contrast sharply. While the Duchess seems delighted to have a companion, Alice is dismayed by the proximity of a person who once told her: "If everyone minded their own business, the world would make a deal faster than 'he doesn't' (Carroll 71). The duchess's genuine smile, betrayed by the narrowing of her eyes, shows her pleasure at being so close to Alice with ...... middle of paper ...... the duchess's advances , but it also shows the feeling of being trapped. nature that many adults feel when thrust into the “adult world” of work and responsibilities. Hedgehogs show the ability to escape the world of responsibilities and work that many children take for granted by trying to run to the adult world and the flamingo evokes the suffocating grip that maturity entails when it finds herself in a world that has placed her on a pedestal from a young age. Works Cited Carroll, Lewis and Tan Lin. “The story of the fake turtle.” Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; And, through the looking glass and what Alice found there. New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2004. Print. Straker, D. “Social Distances.” Mindset Change and Persuasion - How we change what others think, believe, feel and do. September 12, 2004. Web. February 7. 2011. .