The Duchess and the Pig-Baby

From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The Duchess's pepper-filled kitchen and the baby that becomes a pig parody domestic life and Victorian moralizing.
Chapter 6

'Speak roughly to your little boy' — the Duchess's brutal lullaby satirizing Victorian child-rearing.

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Chapter 9

'Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it' — the Duchess's relentless allegorizing, mocking didactic literature.

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