(b) What does the crocodile stand for?
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Sorry, please mention the chapter also.
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"How Doth the Little Crocodile" is a poem by Lewis Carroll which appears in his 1865 novel, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It is recited by Alice in Chapter 2 as she attempts to recall "Against Idleness and Mischief" by Isaac Watts. It describes a crafty crocodile that lures fish into its mouth with a welcoming smile.
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How Doth the Little Crocodile" is a parody of the moralistic poem "Against Idleness and Mischief" by Isaac Watts,[2] which is what Alice was originally trying to recite. Watts' poem begins "How doth the little busy bee ..." and uses the bee as a model of hard work. In Carroll's parody, the crocodile's corresponding "virtues" are deception and predation, themes that recur throughout Alice's adventures in both books, and especially in the poems