Alice begins as a curious young woman, but unlike the idealized image of a young Victorian girl, she bravely enters Wonderland and asserts herself in the face of some scornful and to other openly hostile creatures. Among the inhabitants of Wonderland, the Duchess and the Cook suffer from their submissive and maternal roles respectively, and express this in aggressive and physical ways that are inconsistent with Victorian ideals of “otherworldly” women. The Queen of Hearts is equally aggressive, abusing her power and using violence to solve her problems independently of her husband. Therefore, the female presence in Wonderland shows no ability to transform Alice into the sweet domestic mother imagined by Victorian society. However, Alice's triumph in returning to the "upper world" with her assertiveness and independence intact may be a metaphor in which Carroll suggests that women's repressed feelings, symbolized by the discontented women of Wonderland, may eventually emerge into reality , just like Alice