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    “I can’t go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.” This quote‚ said by Lewis Carroll‚ is true when it comes to growing up‚ because you cannot be the same as who you yesterday when growing up. This just so happens to be the theme in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland‚ written by Lewis Carroll. Alice can not seem to go through Wonderland without getting confused or lost. While she wanders in Wonderland‚ she has to manage to go through size changes‚ which symbolize growing up. Meaning

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    When I first read Jabberwocky‚ probably the most famous poem from Lewis Carroll‚ I was in fifth grade. I recalled thinking‚ I must be doing something right. I had created some words my own and found myself vindicated. In the sequel Through the Looking Glass as an Alice’s second Adventure‚ and what Alice encounter there. Carroll used his playful nature one more time when in the first chapter Alicia reads a poem called the Jabberwocky. In the first chapter‚ Alicia‚ crossing the mirror of her house

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    Adventures in Wonderland Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a popularly known children’s book written by Lewis Carroll‚ but all is not what it appears. Though the book seems mostly comprised of silliness‚ random actions and nonsensical fun‚ that is a common misconception‚ and it is actually‚ demonstrating a social relationship. Through the adventures of a little girl named Alice‚ Carroll echoes his opinions of a government and its society’s relationship. Throughout the story‚ Alice’s split

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    Senselessness A senseless world is creatively put together by Lewis Carroll to become a very imaginative plot of entertainment‚ yet is has yielded a variety of concerns that relate to life throughout the novel. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland and Through The Looking-Glass relate to a dream-like world that is full of adventures that of which a young girl‚ Alice‚ accompanied by various animals‚ insects‚ and imaginary characters experience. Carroll has not only created an abstract character group‚ but has

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    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

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    Lewis Carroll wrote a story about a young girl ‘Alice’ who fell through a rabbit whole into a fantasy world inhabited by strange‚ humanlike creatures. Alice encounters lots of different humanlike creatures throughout her journey through the world of nonsense

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    Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland The children novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is written by Lewis Carroll‚ whom was a lecturer in mathematics at Christ Church in Oxford. Lewis Carroll was a stammer‚ and in company with adults in his own age‚ younger or older‚ he did very poorly. Nevertheless he did really well among children‚ which was how he got to write children’s books. Lewis Carroll was inspired to write Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by one of his children friends‚ named Alice. In

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    Lewis Carroll’s novel‚ Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland‚ has been interpreted as an absurd and nonsense book for children. It is a nonsense book‚ but it is also so much more. Carroll has intertwined nonsense and logic therefore creating sense with nonsense. By looking past the absurdities of this book you find new meaning. You find that the novel is full of references and parallel aspects of the Victorian era in topics of etiquette‚ education and prejudice. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is also

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    classic “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”‚ by changing the story into a more darker and nonsensical tone then the original version. The story of “Alice’s Adventures on Wonderland” has been adapted many times over the course of generations since Lewis Carroll printed it in 1865. The original book differs from Jan Svankmajer version greatly because it was made before surrealism existed. The characters in Carroll’s book seem to be more animalistic‚ while Svankmajer’s are puppets of animals. Svankmajer’s

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    The intriguing poems and novels of Lewis Carroll creates a daydream like and fantasy mood‚ which allows the readers to keep an open mind and have a free interpretation of his stories. The Victorian Era‚ ideology‚ and politics greatly influences his work of literature‚ helping him develop content that amuses children‚ while adults are mesmerized by the clever lines that contain symbolic social commentary. He is known as a nonsensical writer‚ who breaks away from their traditions and becomes embedded

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