Alice In Wonderland Critical Essay
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Critical Analysis Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, written in 1865 and 1871 respectively, are often regarded as a one and two volume set written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pen name and pseudonym Lewis Carroll. Dodgson wrote several essays on mathematics and symbolic logic as an Oxford lecturer in mathematics, but it was under the pen name Lewis Carroll, that he published his most famous works, the children’s novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is widely thought of as one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre.
The third child and the oldest son of eleven children, Carroll …show more content…
He got a lot of practice using his imagination in order to entertain them. He did not begin his real schooling until he was 12. He was an exemplary student all around, yet it was mathematics, not writing, that Carroll pursued the most. Carroll's diaries and other accounts about him are full of his stories with children, nearly always with little girls. He was obviously delighted in the company of little girls. His diary tells in great detail the almost inappropriate pleasure that he took in viewing "nice little children(Carroll's diaries)." Carroll's attractions for little girls were honorable and we have never discovered anything that suggests otherwise. In 1846, Carroll met Alice Liddell, the four-year-old daughter of Henry George Liddell. Carroll was already a close friend of Alice's older sister and her cousin. But it’s Alice who is the main child in Carroll's most famous work, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. On July 4, 1852, Carroll and a friend, Rev. Robinson Duckworth, took the Liddell children, Lorina, Alice, and Edith on a boat ride up the Isis River. There Carroll began telling a story about the underground adventures of Alice. About 180,000 copies of his book in many editions were sold in England during Carroll's lifetime; by 1911, there were almost 700,000 copies in print. Since then, within the expiration of the original copyright in 1907, the book has been translated into every major language, ranking with the works of Shakespeare and the Bible in most
The third child and the oldest son of eleven children, Carroll …show more content…
He got a lot of practice using his imagination in order to entertain them. He did not begin his real schooling until he was 12. He was an exemplary student all around, yet it was mathematics, not writing, that Carroll pursued the most. Carroll's diaries and other accounts about him are full of his stories with children, nearly always with little girls. He was obviously delighted in the company of little girls. His diary tells in great detail the almost inappropriate pleasure that he took in viewing "nice little children(Carroll's diaries)." Carroll's attractions for little girls were honorable and we have never discovered anything that suggests otherwise. In 1846, Carroll met Alice Liddell, the four-year-old daughter of Henry George Liddell. Carroll was already a close friend of Alice's older sister and her cousin. But it’s Alice who is the main child in Carroll's most famous work, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. On July 4, 1852, Carroll and a friend, Rev. Robinson Duckworth, took the Liddell children, Lorina, Alice, and Edith on a boat ride up the Isis River. There Carroll began telling a story about the underground adventures of Alice. About 180,000 copies of his book in many editions were sold in England during Carroll's lifetime; by 1911, there were almost 700,000 copies in print. Since then, within the expiration of the original copyright in 1907, the book has been translated into every major language, ranking with the works of Shakespeare and the Bible in most