Carroll O'Connor

Throughout the three novels.. Alice and Wonderland , The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , & Heart of Darkness , each of the main characters that took place in all three novels discover the “real world” by entering the unreal/surreal world. All three novels take place during the Victorian era , The early Victorian era marked the arrival of a large middle-class society for the first time in the history of the Western world. The literature of the Victorian age entered a new period after the…

In Alice Bliss by Laura Harrington, Alice Bliss is a teenage girl who goes through the regular day struggles in the life of a teenage girl. But once the war comes along, her father, Matt Bliss, decides that it is his duty to go into the war and serve the country. This may seem like a good thing to do in his perspective but for his family, it was one of the worst things that could have happened to them. Alice has a strong connection with her father so to have him leave in this time to something…

Alice in wonderland is a very well known story redone in many different ways. Examples of three different versions could be, the original by disney, a more modern remake by director, tim burton and lastly a production held by Grant Park High School of the play. Aspects compared between the three include story plot, Alice’s character and the reason why she is in wonderland and how she gets out. Although some revisions might share the same features, there are differences between them. Through the…

Have you ever read a book and then thought: "What does this even mean?" Well, the book, Alice' Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, brings up the same question. Did Carroll have a point he was trying to make, or did he write his story for pure entertainment? I believe that he wrote it for entertainment purposes. Though no one but Carroll actually knows the answer to this question. The reasons supporting my thesis are: the original story was told for the amusement of three little girls,…

culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre. Alice is a sensible prepubescent girl from a wealthy English family who finds herself in a strange world ruled by imagination and fantasy. Lewis Carroll the writer of the book, the Release Date: June 25, 2008. Lewis Carroll, born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, grew up in Cheshire, England, to a long line of clergymen. He followed in these footsteps and was a deacon…

weighing on their shoulders. Lewis Carroll often enjoyed spending time with the Liddell children whom he lived next to at Christ Church University. Alice Liddell’s actions and outlook inspired Carroll to write his series of Alice and her adventures. Carroll portrays aspects of a child in her early years with people or subjects in which hold great influence over her upbringing with the use of metaphor, analogies, and symbolism. One of the most influential symbols that Carroll uses in Through the…

Ah, THAT’S the great puzzle!’ (18) by making it a puzzle Alice is determined to use logic to solve it. Carroll presents a moral message of responsibitly and ‘social norms’ throughout the text. This is shown through how Alice has to understand wonderland but also become responsible for her own nonsense throughout the novel, only then can she escape back into…

Curiouser, and Curiouser Charles Dodgson, commonly known as Lewis Carroll, spent his childhood fascinating his siblings. As he matured, he became an academic and a man of the Church. As an adult, he still spent time with children because he found comfort in their understanding. By looking at Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, one can see that Lewis Carroll included the themes of discovering one’s true identity and defining blurred lines between fantasy and reality because he was an individual…

imagination, but that is not the true. No one can blame themselves for wanting that sense of creativity to live within for as long as possible, which is exactly how Alice felt throughout her journey. In The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll uses references to his own past, Alice’s change in size, and imagery to show that people can keep elements of childhood, like imagination, forever. It is well known and quite obvious that childhood only lasts for a short amount of time before…

January 27, 1832 in Daresbury, Cheshire, England. Carroll was not only a children’s writer, but a photographer and mathematician. Carroll is the son of the Reverend Charles Dodgson and Frances Jane (Lutwidge). Carroll suffered from a stutter and was deaf in one ear. He had ten brothers and sisters and was the third oldest. This contributed to his wild imagination because he would make up stories and games for his younger brothers and sisters. Carroll was taught lessons from home when he was…