Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland is a novel overloaded with clever examples of puns and puns. The story of the mock turtle, in chapter 9, is one of the most significant displays of puns in history. The Mock Turtle constantly uses his whole story about his previous upbringing. The Mock Turtle tells Alice about the courses he took in school which are parodies of the real subjects taught in school. This reminds Alice of her own upbringing, which seems to be a significant theme in the book. Alice's Victorian upbringing contributed to her belief that she was adequately educated and extremely intelligent. Her conversation with the Mock Turtle causes her to get confused and forget what she learned in school. She also sees that what she was taught in school has no use or application to Wonderland. Perhaps Carroll's use of puns in this chapter was to mock some of the subjects taught in school in his day and the fact that they have no use in the real world. Education is one of the main themes of Alice in Wonderland and perhaps represents Carroll's vision of the Victorian education system. Throughout the novel, Alice refers to her previous education and how proud she is of it. For example in chapter 1, Alice uses words like “latitude” and “longitude” but doesn't even understand what they mean. This is one of the first examples in the novel of how her previous education is useless in Wonderland, as she lacks the knowledge to find her way. Then in chapter 2 when Alice meets the mouse, she says "Maybe he doesn't understand English, I dare say he's a French mouse, come with William the Conqueror." (19). Alice's knowledge of history is clearly imperfect, as William the Conqueror existed hundreds of years before her. As it turns out, his education wasn't as superior as he thought