: The Caucus-race, where everyone wins and receives prizes, parodies the arbitrary nature of political and social systems.
In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland , Alice becomes "wet" after falling into the —a body of water she inadvertently created while crying when she was nine feet tall.
: The Mouse’s "dry" history lesson satirizes Victorian education, suggesting that rote memorization of facts is useless for solving real-world, practical problems.