ALICE IN WONDERLAND
By Lewis Carroll
INDEX:◦ AUTHOR WITH HIS CURIOSITIES◦ ALICE AND HER CURIOSITIES◦HATTER AND HIS CURIOSITIES
AUTHOR -Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ( 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898).
-He suffered from a stammer
-Richmond Grammar School
-Oxford University
CURIOSITIES
-“CARROLL MYTH”
-MIGRAINES
-ALICE’ SYNDROME (AIWS)
-”GRIN LIKE A CHESHIRE CAT”
Lewis Carroll portrait of Beatrice Hatch
ALICE- MAIN CHARACTER.
- SHOW THE JOURNEY FROM CHILDHOOD TO ADULTHOOD
- BASED ON: ALICE LIDDELL
- CRITIC : GOOD MANNERS AND TWO FACES SOCIETY AND THE INNOCENCE
“-So you think you’re changed, do you? - I’m afraid, Sir. I can't remember things as I used, and I don’t keep the same size for ten minutes together!” (Lewis, p.45,)
ALICE LIDDELL◦ BORN : 4 MAY 1852. (LONDON)◦DIED: 16 NOV 1934 (AGE OF 82)◦HER FAMILY MOVED TO OXFORD WHERE SHE
MET Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ALSO CALLED Lewis Carroll.
◦ INSPIRED THE STORY – BOATING TRIP IN OXFORD
“MAD” HATTER- DURING THE XIX CENTURY.
- HATS WERE MADE WITH MERCURY.
- APPEARS THE EXPRESSION “AS MAD AS A HATTER”
- CARROLL NEVER REFERS TO HIM AS A “MAD HATTER”
HATTER- MAIN CHARACTER OF THE TEA PARTY
- CRITIC TO SOCIETY IN VICTORIAN AGES
- RIDDLES AND POETRY
- PUNISHED DUE TO “MURDERING TIME”
- FOOD AND TEA
- “THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, AND WHAT ALICE FOUND THERE”
“Why is a raven like a writing-desk?” (Carroll, 68).
“-What a funny watch! It tells the day of the month and doesn’t tell what o’clock it is!” (Carroll, 30)
“Take some more tea- the march hare said to Alice. “I’ve had nothing yet, so I can’t take more! -Replied Alice. “You mean you can’t take less. It’s very easy to take more than nothing”-said the hatter” (Carrol, p.33)
WORKS CITED:
Carroll, Lewis. Alice’s adventures in Wonderland. Macmillan & Co,. London, 1966, 2015. Hemsley, Rik. I have Alice in Wonderland’ syndrome. The Guardian. 2008, 2015.
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