Concetti Chiave
- Lewis Carroll, pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, was a mathematician and children's book author, known for "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland".
- "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland" follows a young girl, Alice, who enters a nonsensical world by following a white rabbit, meeting whimsical characters.
- The story explores themes like growing up, a child's struggle in an adult world, and identity, featuring poetic language and puns.
- The Mad Tea Party scene exemplifies Carroll's use of nonsense, with illogical situations like offering wine during tea time.
- In the Mad Tea Party, time is perpetually 6 o'clock due to the Mad Hatter's conflict with Time, leading to an eternal tea time.
Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll is the pseudonyms of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. He was born in Cheshire in 1832, he lived an happy childhood. At Oxford he became a lecture in Mathematics and published a work about Euclid. In the meantime he wrote books for children like “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and its sequel “Through the looking-glass”. For this reason we can talk about the Carroll’s dualism—> poetry and logicLewis Carroll was the creator of nonsensical world, critics say that he had the brain of abnormal person, but the heart of normal child. He died in 1898.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
- The story talks about a young girl, Alice, who dreams that she follows a white rabbit down a small hole into an amazing world where everything is illogical. Here she met strange creatures & characters like the Mad Hatter, the March hare, the Cheshire cat, the queen/king of hearts. In the end Alice wakes up and coming back to the reality.- It was set in Wonderland, a crazy world where she entered following a white rabbit. Animals acts like normal people and there are no references to dark or night, it’s like our world seen by the eyes of a child but the story takes place in the real world, she sleep next to her sister.
Themes
- The main themes are:1. Growing up
2. Child’s struggle to survive in the adult’s world.—> she has a different way to live,
different concept of time and space.
3. Identity —> Alice is order to idenfity herself by creature she met, she has doubts
about her identity, she grows and shrinks. She is worried and want to find right size.
The style is harmonious and it’s incorporated poetic language in a parodic form, there are a lot of puns.
Mad tea party
They were having tea but the march hare proposed some wine to Alice, that’s an example of nonsense: wine to a little girl and in the afternoon whit tea, but on the table there isn’t wine.They shout “no room” (non c’è spazio) even if the table was very long and they were in a corner, they have no sense of space (a common human behavior).
She expressed a judge and the Mad Hatter answer to Alice.
An other important features of the text was the riddles, but no-one has the answer , they have no sense and makes Alice thoughtful.
Concept of time, are always 6 o’clock. This because mad hatter kill time (person) and was stopped by queen of hearts. And this the motives—> they spent their time to round in the table, is always time of tea and didn’t time to wash.
Domande da interrogazione
- Chi era Lewis Carroll e quale dualismo caratterizzava la sua opera?
- Qual è la trama principale di "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland"?
- Quali sono i temi principali di "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland"?
- Cosa rappresenta il "Mad tea party" nel contesto del libro?
Lewis Carroll, pseudonimo di Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, era un docente di matematica e autore di libri per bambini. Il suo dualismo si riflette nella combinazione di poesia e logica nelle sue opere.
La storia segue Alice, una giovane ragazza che sogna di seguire un coniglio bianco in un mondo straordinario e illogico, incontrando creature strane. Alla fine, si sveglia e ritorna alla realtà.
I temi principali includono la crescita, la lotta del bambino per sopravvivere nel mondo degli adulti, e l'identità, con Alice che affronta dubbi su se stessa e cerca di trovare la sua giusta dimensione.
Il "Mad tea party" rappresenta il non-senso, con situazioni illogiche come l'offerta di vino ad Alice e l'assenza di spazio al tavolo. Il concetto di tempo è distorto, essendo sempre le sei a causa di un conflitto con la Regina di Cuori.
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