Making Sense Out of Nonsense (Analysis of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
" 'Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise' "(Carroll 89). Carroll here conveys the message to not try to show yourself deeper than what your surface suggests. Did he follow in the footsteps of that philosophy in his renowned work Alice's Adventures in Wonderland? In this work, Lewis Carroll, the pen name used by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, devises a seemingly nonsensical plot that weaves through the various adventures of young Alice through her dreamland, contending with all sorts of odd characters on the way (Cohen 125). Although childish nonsense on the surface, these characters in Lewis Carroll's imaginative story Alice's Adventures in Wonderland reflect personality types in an adult society. The most obvious yet false interpretation of Alice is that she represented Alice Liddell. As the pretty dark-haired daughter of the dean of Christ Church where Lewis Carroll attended, typically shy Alice Liddell quickly began to view Carroll as a friend and mentor (Hudson 266; "Introduction to Lewis Carroll" 105). Carroll related the original
Lewis Carroll addressed the concept of time, the usage of words, the function of names, and the confusion associated with personal identity, each a subject that continually perplexes adults of all personalities and roles today (Holmes 642). Derek Hudson observed that "Lewis Carroll's knowledge of math and logic. "The Philosophers 'Alice in Wonderland. The Duchess displays her brutal side in this quote.
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