Lewis Carroll Essay

“Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast” (Carroll 5). Charles Dodgson, the author of two of the most famous children’s books in the world, was a very peculiar man. He wrote under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. Carroll is famous for writing Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There. Much of Dodgson’s characteristics and life experiences influenced how he composed his novels. Before Dodgson began writing novels, he wrote

MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE OF UKRAINE IVAN FRANKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF LVIV ENGLISH DEPARTMENT LEXICAL AND STYLISTIC DEVICES IN LEWIS CAROLL’S NOVEL «ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND» COURSE PAPER PRESENTED BY

Many poems have concepts that can be hard to grasp due to complex metaphors, figurative language, and forms of diction. Lewis Carroll takes this struggle of comprehension to an entire new level in The Jabberwocky. Although a simple story of a boy slaying a foul creature, it is formatted in a way that traps the reader inside of the nonsensical imagination of Carroll. It does not take close inspection to realize that the word choices throughout are a bit unorthodox. It does, however, take an out-of-the-box

Lewis Carroll's Alice In Wonderland “So she sat on, with closed eyes, and half believed herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality . . .” (Carroll 119). Wonderland: a place where everything is different and the imagination is free to roam wild. A place where it does not matter how big a person is, but the intellect that is in a person. Existing in the dreams of children everywhere, wonderland is a place of escape, causing a person

of it it’s humor is derived from it’s nonsensical nature rather than wit or the joke of a punchline. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who is better known as Lewis Carroll, has authored diverse amount of poems, novels, and short stories in his career.”The Hunting of the Snark” display his wonderful ability in the genre of literary nonsense. However, Carroll is most distinguished for his infant’s “nonsense” novels: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and the sequel Through the Looking-Glass. His work, principally

these stories would delight children for the coming century and even became major motion pictures, like the stories of Alice and Peter Pan. Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan present their own unique stories with "the fantastical" which entertain many for generations to come. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll follows the young girl Alice down the rabbit hole to Wonderland where she meets the different creatures of Wonderland. One of

Lewis Carroll and Vladimir Nabokov both effectively present the idea of how a child can easily lose their innocence. Lewis Carroll’s, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland follows a young girl who disappears down a rabbit hole, to find herself amongst a place filled with bizarre and wonderful adventures. Vladimir Nabokov’s, Lolita is a fictional memoir, following the life of a man with a disturbed lust for young girls. Carroll and Nabokov, similarly write their novels with a semi-autobiographical tone

Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) was born on January 27, 1832 at Daresbury, Cheshire. He attended the Richmond Grammar School while contributing prose, poetry and drawings to a series of family magazines. Later, he moved to many different schools. Dodgson also knew mathematics really well. His academic record and mathematical skills won him the Christ Church Mathematical Lectureship in 1855. But he continued to publish his works under name, Lewis Carroll. One Of the most famous Carroll’s

comments: 'The invention view seems to assume that whether an utterance has meaning and what meaning it has it entirely up to the speaker.'[8] This can been seen especially in the character of Humpty Dumpty, who gives his own meanings to the words. Carroll is toying with the language and communication using its ambiguity and various references to confuse Alice. Moreover, the communication gains a new meaning, its role is no longer to transmit a message to the listener; it is transformed into meta communication

In Lewis Carroll’s poem Jabberwocky we see the themes of danger flow throughout the poem. In this particular poem Old English is used not only to give us a sense of time this will take place but as well as a dramatic effect. The time takes place in what I believe to be the 1800s. Not only does Carroll language help identify this theme but he uses different literary devices to help as well. Carroll uses literary devices such as onomatopoeias, metaphors, and symbolism to identify this dangerous theme