Imagine jumping into a rabbit hole and entering a new world completely different than what you're used to, Lewis Carroll invented this new world to expand imagination to show differences. Throughout college, Lewis Carroll struggled to find what he wanted to pursue, but eventually, his interest sparked and literacy, which inspired him to write stories with praises, and controversy. The two stories Lewis Carroll was most known for was Alice Through the Looking Glass and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
Lewis Carroll struggled in college to find what he was passionate about, he was passionate about math but realize he was more passionate about literacy. Lewis Carroll was born In 1832 and went to the school of Christ Church, Oxford where he was
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was written in 1865 and is one of the most well-known children's book. This book started Lewis Carroll's career. The book consists of a young girl named Alice not feeling like she belongs in her society because she has a huge imagination and taste for adventures. She then sees a rabbit that looks very peculiar. Alice follows that rabbit into a rabbit hole that led Alice to an imaginary world filled with interesting creatures. She faces many challenges while meeting new people that have many opinions about her. During the challenges she learns about herself, to enjoy being young, and to not be afraid to show her differences. Through the Looking-Glass is a sequel to the first story. The story consists of Alice returning to wonderland through a looking glass (mirror). When Alice returns to wonderland everything is reversed. The characters are acting opposite than what they were before which was very strange. Alice was trying to figure out how to make everything like it was while facing many obstacles along the way. Both of these stories sold thousands of copies and also we're both created into movies by big movie producers like Walt Disney. The stories have also been televised on many different media platforms. Many awards were given to these stories and even got an award created based on the stories itself. Along with the incredible publicity and praise, the stories got it rose some
The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor was a book that took a different angle at the classic story of Alice in Wonderland. The book was not just a lighthearted, wacky story about an English girl that stumbles down a rabbit hole and ends up in a world with talking caterpillars known as Wonderland. She is Wonderland’s heir to the throne and her mother, Genevieve, is the queen. Genevieve’s sister, Redd, is bent on revenge after being kicked out of the castle. She storms the castle and forcefully takes the throne, and Alyss is sent into another world and tries to find her way back to Wonderland to take back the throne. In order to do this, she has to gain a lot of responsibility starting from her childhood in Wonderland, teenage years in England,
In Frank Beddor’s The Looking Glass Wars, There is a new take on the story of alice and wonderland. In the story alyss, the princess of wonderland has to flee her queendom after her evil aunt redd attacks and is split up with her guard. After that she falls in a portal and ends up surprisingly in England, though it would take almost 13 years, alyss would return to wonderland to fight for her throne as rightful queen. The authors change in the story makes the book have significance as well there are many themes developed throughout the book such as don’t give up which is shown by characters such as Dodge, Hatter, and Alyss.
In the Looking Glass Wars and Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, both Alyss and Alice are innocent, immature little girls who are just trying to understand the world around them. Because of their age they are very curious and they satisfy this curiosity by exploring. While they are exploring new things, it requires them to adapt to different lifestyles, which help them to better understand themselves and grow wiser.
With this in mind, he was born into a rich family on September 19, 1737, in Annapolis, Maryland, with the given name of Charles Carroll.2 A man who would one day sign the Declaration of Independence in 1776. belonging to a rich family, he lived the life of a European aristocrat. His parents, Charles Carroll of Annapolis and Elizabeth Brooke, were married twenty years after Charles was born. Charles Carroll of
Most people know the name Lewis Carroll, and even more know about the taleof a little girl who fell down a rabbit hole straight into the adventure of a lifetime. But not many people know the name Charles Dodgson, the man behind the pseudonym and the one who constructed this wonderland from a summer time boat ride in 1862. Originally written for three friends, the Liddell sisters, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has inspired philosophers, artists, writers, theologians, and not to mention the general public. The culture in which this piece of art was written has shaped Alice’s dream-like journey from the first false step into an almost never ending fall to the last storm of cards. Dodgson’s enchanting work illustrates mankind’s childlike spirit that 1880s English society tried so hard to ignore.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a story about a little girl who comes into contact with unpredictable, illogical, basically mad world of Wonderland by following the White Rabbit into a huge rabbit – hole. Everything she experiences there challenges her perception and questions common sense. This extraordinary world is inhabited with peculiar, mystical and anthropomorphic creatures that constantly assault Alice which makes her to question her fundamental beliefs and suffer an identity crisis. Nevertheless, as she woke up from “such a curious dream” she could not help but think “as well she might, what a wonderful dream it had been ”.
Overall, Dodgson’s life and his unique interests, was what inspired him in his writing of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Drawing inspiration from everything around him, especially the things he appreciated eminently, creating one of the most famous and influential books of all time, that is still popular today, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
Carroll, Lewis. Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. New York: The modern Library, 2002. Print
Lewis Carroll lived a disciplined and diligent life and accomplished many accolades in numerous fields of academics. His ability to do this was through the means of his family’s support and the era of which he lived in. These factors composed his disposition, which resonated throughout his literary works.
“’But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'” quoted by a very creative and imaginative author, Lewis Carroll, author of the hit Alice novels. This short novel was written by an extremely upright, ultra conservative man in which his unique character and many experiences had a great influence in the creation of Through the Looking Glass. Of all of Carroll’s works, Alice’s Through the Looking Glass, has a unique way of expressing adventures and stating the events in which occur throughout the whole novel making the novel standout in the category of whimsical, nonsense literature. The novel includes 12 chapters in which every new chapter brings you into different exotic settings introducing you to many peculiar characters involving the only and only Alice, the Tweedledum twins, Red Queen, White King, Humpty Dumpty Walrus and Carpenter. Meeting these characters brought her to finally achieving what her destination had been since the start; she finally became her normal size, making it into the garden. The events and settings involved with Through the Looking Glass make it a very fictional, imaginative novel. Carroll's imagination takes readers with Alice into where she finds the Looking-Glass House. Using the game of chess as the setting of his novel, he fills the novel with situations and puzzles from the ordinary to the extraordinary; including silly characters and adventures in which may be nonsensical, using the game of chess as the setting.
In such a cherished children’s book, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, written in 1865, has caused great commotion in political and social satire. It slowly but surely grew into one of the most adored publications in the Victorian era, expanding into today’s modern age. Lewis Carroll was the pen name utilized by Charles L. Dodgson and has forth created a sequel named Through the Looking Glass, And What Alice Found There composed first in 1871. In short, the text of the story presented with a feminist approach, a corrupt judicial system of Victorian England, the caucus race, and the absence of a childhood, the evolution of species, and Marxism.
Lewis, Carroll. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. New York: Oxford, 2009. Print.
Carroll is unwilling to accept the fact that Alice is growing up and that their friendship is coming to an end. In Alice in Wonderland, Alice is portrayed as a child in need of help, much like how Alice needed Carroll. However, in Through the Looking Glass, Alice is portrayed as older and independent. This is because Carroll sees Alice as years older than when he first wrote about her, despite her only being six months older in the book. Carroll reminisces on the way Alice used to spend time with him and he misses that friendship.
The book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was inspired by a little girl named Alice who Carroll would spend many hours with telling stories (Bio.com, Lewis Carroll). When the book was released in 1865 it gained popularity over time and soon Carroll wrote Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland soon became the most popular children's book in the world (Bio.com, Lewis Carroll).
Richard Morton, (December, 1960). "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass". Elementary English. 37 (8), pp.509-513