The irony of this Tenniel illustration is that these are two representations of the exact same motif. Alice falls too in the first novel. Just like Humpty. Remember how she got there? She descended. She has to ascend. That’s the point of the story. You must descend to ascend. Alice is Venus. The Descent is the Morning Star. the Ascendant Venus is Alice at the end of her story. It is Dorothy Gale and her magical silver shoes. Dorothy had to figure out that the power to grant all her wishes was with her the entire time. Wasn’t the power to leave Wonderland with Alice the whole time too?
And the necessity of the fall before the rise.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Like Eve took of the fruit,
Humpty had a ginormous fall, Like Adam and Eve Got the boot.
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