Lewis Carroll Writing Effects

Effects of Lewis Carroll’s Life On His Writing Lewis Carroll’s life as a writer and as a person can be described to some people as secretive or peculiar. He was born in Daresbury, Cheshire, England in 1832 under the name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. All the books that he published was wrote with the pen name of Lewis Carroll. Being a mathematician, photographer, and novelist, he was a much respected man in England. At an early age he excelled in mathematics and went to college at Christ College. Even though he was a prestige mathematician, Lewis Carroll in known for his nonsense style of writing. Critics have tried to guess of reasons why this style was plagued with Lewis’s writing but none are guaranteed true. On the other hand, some

A Victorian lifestyle was a time period of when Queen Victoria lived. It was a time where social classes were based highly upon if you were wealthy or not. It was also a time when the woman had more dominance over the man than today. You can see were female dominance is portrayed in Lewis’s books such as the Queens and Alice in “Through the Looking Glass”. A troubled childhood was also something that you can see influenced his writing. Lewis was the oldest in his family but most of the attention was toward the younger siblings. In his books he has a negative attitude toward babies which give credit to the idea that when he was a child his baby brother and sisters received most of the attention. “Neither Charles Dodgson or Lewis Carroll had many good things to say about babies. Throw them away. Tie them in Knots and send them into the wilderness” (www.alice-in-wonderland). Lewis also had a stuttering problem that affected his speech when he talked to people but found that is ceased when he talked to children. That is why that Lewis centered his writing around a children’s theme and spread his imagination around and create crazy things to entice children. Children “as they undoubtedly inspired his best known writings and have been a point of disturbed speculation over the years”

Although some ideas are just rumors, there is still enough evidence in his writing to fuel the fire and make it plausible. In his writing there are multiple details that you can relate or compare to his life experiences so you can accurately say that they influenced his novels and his style of writing. Lewis is famous for his unorthodox method of writing and critics have had many ideas on what have influenced it. Drug problems, enjoyment of children, leisure activities,victorian lifestyle, eating habits, and logical ideas are all items that affected Lewis Carroll’s writing. Looking through his novels one can clearly see that his life in general influenced his style of imaginative