Lewis Carroll

The life and works of Lewis Carroll: Charles Dodgson, born in 1832 to Charles Dodgson (a clergyman) and Frances, in Daresbury, England, took the pen name, Lewis Carroll. Lewis has ten other siblings as well. “He told his brothers and sisters stories, made up games and wrote magazines with them,” (Woolf, Pg.1) says Edward Wakeling, having spent 12 years annotating Dodgson’s diaries. Lewis apparently loved to entertain children, and they loved him as well.. At eighteen, Lewis enrolled at Oxford…

the poem “A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky,” Lewis Carroll talked about the boat ride that he went on with his friend, Alice, and her sisters (Popova). On this boat ride, he told the children about the story of Wonderland, which later inspired his book called Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Popova). This poem reflected the loss of Carroll 's loved one. As Alice grew up, she is not naïve and optimistic like she used to be when was a little girl. As a result, Carroll was disheartened by her transition…

In the novel, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll is attempting to show Alice maturing from a child to a young adult. Before Alice’s tumble down the Rabbit hole and trip to Wonderland, she had gone through a phase in which she believed that everything could be explained and all questions had a reasonable answer. In the real world this was the case, but not in Wonderland. This leads to the inevitable outcome of her confusion between the real world and the “imaginary” world of…

After the book was published, its sales went through the roof and many foreign editions had to be made. Inspired by how well Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland performed, “Carroll began work on a sequel, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, published in 1872,” (Stanley 18). Unsurprisingly, the sequel was just as successful as it’s prequel. Many 19th century critics found Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to have a “sheer imaginative force, coupled with a blend of humor,…

discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.” Although, for many, it is difficult to find this strength making growing up seem frightening. This process and struggle reaching adulthood is shown in both Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. Alice in Wonderland is a story of a little girl named Alice whose fantasies take her a made up, crazy land called Wonderland, in which she meets many different curious creatures. The Catcher in…

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was written by Lewis Carroll in 1865. The heroine of the book is six-year-old Alice Liddel. She enters the world of Wonderland after falling down a rabbit-hole on a sleepy afternoon. Subsequently, Alice changes throughout the book in two significant ways: physically and psychologically. These changes were introduced in the beginning of her adventures and play substantial roles in the story. The first changes Alice encounters are physical. Firstly, she…

Autobiography: Love Your Rabbit Heneghan, Judith. Love Your Rabbit. London: Wayland, 2013. Print. Judith Heneghan is an expert on rabbits. I learned so much from her amazing book. She owns two rabbits named Jack and Jill. She provides many things for these animals including different virides of food (hay , pellets bananas, apples, E.T.C) and different bedding to change things up a bit. She also likes to put her bunny outside because she believes that bunnies should get as much of the…

“Curiouser and curiouser!” is the exclamation Alice cries out as she witnesses the absurdities of Wonderland, a magical and frightening, dream world (Carroll 8). It is a statement all readers can certainly agree with as Alice makes her way through a plethora of different, but equally disturbing settings. Her journey begins simply enough at the bank of a river with her sister, when out of the blue, a white, clothed, talking* rabbit hops past her. Alice hastily follows it right into an…

created in her head. In the beginning of Alice’s journey, she is a girl who is structured and poise. When Alice asks the Duchess “‘please would you tell me’…‘why your cat grins like that!’” (Carroll 49) she asks timidly “for she was not quite sure whether it was good manners for her to speak first” (Carroll 49). This symbolizes the beginning of Alice’s metamorphosis into a confident being. Alice is timid and worries about what the creatures around her will think. Blake agrees that Alice tries…

There is a world beyond ours. A world that we would consider a fantasy. A world where flowers sing and imagination is a power. The inhabitants of this world face difficulties and challenges. Alyss Heart faces many trials and is tested many times. She starts out as a bratty little girl and over time she turns into a beautiful lady and queen of Wonderland. In the beginning of the novel, Alyss is characterized as an immature, clever, and a shrewd little girl and future queen of Wonderland. “...…