Concetti Chiave
- Lewis Carroll, born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, was a mathematician and writer known for blending poetry with logic, evident in his famous works for children.
- "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" features a young girl's journey into a nonsensical world after following a white rabbit, meeting peculiar characters like the Mad Hatter and Cheshire Cat.
- The setting of Wonderland offers a childlike perspective where animals behave like humans, and the story juxtaposes fantasy with the real world.
- Main themes include a child's struggle in the adult world, identity crises, and the manipulation of time, explored through poetic language and puns.
- Carroll's storytelling incorporates nonsensical elements and riddles, highlighting absurd human behaviors and engaging readers with whimsical, thought-provoking content.
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 logic
Lewis 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 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.
Main themes and style
- The main themes are:
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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.
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
- Who was Lewis Carroll and what is notable about his dualism?
- What is the central plot of "Alice in Wonderland"?
- What are the main themes explored in "Alice in Wonderland"?
- How does Lewis Carroll incorporate nonsense and riddles in his storytelling?
Lewis Carroll, the pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, was a mathematician and author known for his dualism of poetry and logic. He wrote children's books like "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland" while also publishing mathematical works, showcasing his ability to blend imaginative storytelling with logical precision.
"Alice in Wonderland" follows a young girl named Alice who dreams of following a white rabbit into a fantastical world where logic is turned upside down. She encounters bizarre characters and experiences a series of illogical events before waking up and returning to reality.
The main themes include a child's struggle to navigate the adult world, identity, and the concept of time. Alice faces challenges in understanding her identity and the nonsensical nature of the world around her, which is depicted through poetic language and puns.
Carroll uses nonsense and riddles to create a whimsical and thought-provoking narrative. Characters engage in illogical conversations, such as offering wine to a child during tea, and pose riddles without answers, reflecting the absurdity and complexity of human behavior and thought.
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