Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Next, C.S. Lewis is an exceptional British author. He was born in 1898 and died in 1963. He has wrote many books throughout his career. His most famous work is the series The Chronicles of Narnia. He is also known for his science fiction novels, such as Out of the Silent Planet. C.S.

Late rabbits, talking cats, and dancing cards are just some of the un-natural occurrences that take place in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. In today’s society with competing books, such as Harry Potter, these elements in the book may seem like no big deal, but for the time period the book was published, these were anything but normal. This children’s book was first published in 1865 in the United Kingdom; during the Victorian time period, named after Queen Victoria. The book, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland represents a satire on the Victorian Era and how people were expected to act, through which Carroll displays an overall theme of growing up.

“Alice in Wonderland”, written by Lewis Carroll, is an incredible masterpiece filled with nonsense literature about a young girl named Alice Liddell, who follows “a White Rabbit with pink eyes” (Carroll) down a rabbit hole and finds herself in the world of Wonderland. Intrigued with this realm, she continues forward to discover what adventures awaited her through the Mad Hatter’s tea party, and the Queen of Hearts’ court. The connection with Marxism and this novel is how Queen Victoria ruled at the time this story was written, and few believe it reflects upon her times in Victorian England. In addition, the characters all play essential archetypes to portray their social standing and Alice is capable of proving this through her adventures when she changes heights in order to join and belong with each social order.

In one of the articles I found while looking up Lewis Carroll it told about his life and the reason behind writing Alice in Wonderland. Lewis Carroll loved

Lewis Carroll’s classic children’s novel, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is fundamentally about the growth of the character of Alice. In the Victorian period 1837- 1901, there was a changes in children education and reflexively development of children literature. Therefore when writing Lewis Carroll attempts to put forth a form of education within the text. The story follows Alice who is a seven year old well-mannered victorian girl that stumbles through a rabbit hole into the magical world of Wonderland. Alice takes on the role of the audience viewing Wonderland and its strange inhabitants. It is through language in both conversations with herself and with the characters of wonderland that we see Alice’s journey through wonderland is representative of a child’s education into adulthood.

In 1862, floating upon the river Isis, Charles Dodgson narrated for Alice Liddell and a few others in company his original tale of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Gliding along underneath the blue sky, Dodgson wove his words into one of the most classic children stories of all time. Thesis: Although Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland may have only begun as a children’s story, many adults have sought to discover the “true meaning” of the novel. Curiosity has led to years of searching and interpretation of the origins of Carroll’s novels, and the symbols inside, developing into theories ranging from practical to nearly impossible, eventually evolving into their own stories in the film industry.

One of my favourite childhood books has been “The Cat in the Hat” by Dr. Seuss. When I was younger my brother and I use to play together. I remember my brother and I use to make a big mess, but also get in trouble at home. The two kids in the book Sam and Sally create a very big mess with the Cat, however the cat cleans it up for them. The mother arrives home and everything is put back into place. Sam and Sally’s mother asks them what they did all day. Then the book “ends with a question “what would do if your mother asked you”? I loved this question as a child because I loved the idea of keeping secrets from my mom, but I never did we always got caught. This book made me laugh as a child and continues to do so today. I have always loved cats

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, more commonly known as Lewis Carroll, rose to fame from the birth of Alice’s Adventures Through the Looking Glass. While he became a celebrated author among children and adults alike, conspiracies arose concerning his life outside the glamorized, innocent light from which the Victorian masses viewed him. Many modern critics have called into question Dodgson’s relationships with young girls, specifically holding a microscope under his interactions with Alice Liddell, the girl that inspired his famous tale. Despite the mix of reckless and groundless claims, Dodgson’s relationship with little girls never went beyond the confines of friendship.

Charles Dodgson, although known by many as Lewis Carroll, came into the world on January 27, 1832, in Daresbury, Cheshire, England. During his early childhood, Dodgson resided in an isolated country village along with his ten siblings. Since Dodgson resided in an isolated country village, he had few friends outside of his family. However, he and his siblings had little trouble entertaining themselves. Dodgson had a great skill for creating games to amuse himself and his siblings. Once he reached the age of twelve he attended the Richmond School in Yorkshire. After two years there, Dodgson departed and enrolled in Rugby School, where he studied from 1846-1850. He disliked those four years of public school due to his shyness and the amount of bullying that he received from his classmates. Also during those four years at Rugby School, he contracted several illnesses, including one that left him deaf in one ear, which might have contributed to his hatred towards public

Heavy literary symbolism is difficult to trace through his works because of the fact he wrote mainly for entertainment. In fact, Carroll's stories, including Alice, are usually

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, commonly known as Lewis Carroll, was the king of literary nonsense. Best known as the author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Carroll had remarkable word play skills and ironically had a deep love for both fantasy and logic. Carroll had repeatedly rejected the idea that “Alice” was inspired by a real

Carroll intended for the purpose of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to be a children’s book and therefore probably did not intend for adults to scrutinize his work. Gilead explains Carroll’s book as “merely playful entertainment” (288) for children. Therefore, his recovery was short, potentially in light of the fact that a child does not need this type of recovery, for they already have their imagination and innocence intact. But as Gilead states, “writing for children thus permits the adult to recuperate the familiar and to link slippery modern culture to the lost wholeness and stability of an imagined (and largely imaginary) past” (288). Gilead is saying that although this is children’s fantasy, if adults were to read it, the whole narrative

A classic is judged over a period of time to be of the highest quality and outstanding of its kind. Most childrens’ book are always considered classics or a “must read”. Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland is a fairly decent book, but it should not be put into the CFORK’s canon of literature. It doesn't have any life lessons that are valuable for the typical high school student, it is entertaining, but the book was intentionally written for the lower levels.

Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) used the study of Old, Middle, and Early Modern English in his creation of Wonderland. Lewis Carroll loved to play with words and “it is essential to the coherence of Carroll’s linguistic worlds that we are aware of language acting in accordance with rules even as we are aware that they are not the rules we expect to take precedence” (Williams 660-661). In Jabberwocky, Carroll invents his own lexicon, intelligible only through its function words which give light to the poem’s structure. The poem begins,

Adventure tales are driven by the presence of strange lands, as characters venture to and through them, finding fantastical things they have never seen before. In Alice 's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, Alice enters a nonsensical world where both the location and the rules of the world itself are foreign. The characters Alice meets do not follow the rules of the real world, so she must navigate both the terrain and the logic of Wonderland to return home. Robert Louis Stevenson 's Treasure Island follows a similar pattern, where Jim travels to a faraway island which he only knows as a map until he arrives. As Jim travels to the "Treasure Island," he discovers that the people around him are not as honest as they seem to be, throwing him into situations that follow rules and traditions known only to pirates. In addition to traversing an unfamiliar land, both protagonists apply their known conventions to their respective interactions, but face problems as a result that drive the story forward.