nd the era in which Dodgson was educated, and the influential people of his life prior to concluding reasoning behind his style of writing. Dodgson lived and wrote during the Victorian Era, in which Queen Victoria ruled England. This period in literature is called the realist or naturalist period (Jones, 2000). It is prominent to note that despite Dodgson's reflection on his homeland of Oxford as a "quiet back-water where nothing ever happened", Oxford in the 1840's to 1860's was the considered the intellectual storm-centre of England (Taylor, 1979). It was in Oxford that such controversies between reason and dogma arose, and most importantly, the beginnings of separation between Catholicism and Romanism. Throughout this "Oxford Movement", it was of high fashion to be educated, or take part in intellectual matters, such as the Darwinian theories and logic. People were concerned with the progress of society, thus causing the trend in rhetorical arguments, depicting how the individual fit in and their emphasis on accuracy and suitability of form and structure.
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