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Alice's adventures in wonderland

Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)

About

Author

-Was born in Daresbury on January 27, 1832.

-Studied mathematics at Christ Church College

-In 1861 he was ordained a deacon, but he would never take higher orders.

-Falling ill with bronchitis, he died in Guildford on 14 January 1898

Works

Works

He wrote some mathematical books like:

  • "Euclid and his modern rivals" (1879)
  • "The game of logic" (1887); "What the tortoise said to Achilles" (1894);
  • "Symbolic logic" (1896).

A book that later became famous and originally published in 1865 is "Alice's adventures in Wonderland"

Plot

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Settings

The story has two localities:

-the real world

-the imaginary or dream world

Settings

Characters

Mad Hatter

Queen of hearts

Characters

- members of the Mad Tea Party.

- He occasionally is very rude and provokes Alice during the tea party

-Although everybody calls him ‘the Mad Hatter’, Lewis Carroll never actually called him that in the story. He just referred to him as ‘the Hatter’.

-Carroll may have asked Tenniel to draw the Mad Hatter to resemble Theophilus Carter, a furniture dealer near Oxford.

White rabbit

-The Queen of Hearts rules over Wonderland

-She is violent, authoritative and dominant.

- She likes to play croquet with live flamingoes and hedgehogs as mallets and balls

- is nervous and always in a hurry.

-he is confident enough about himself to contradict the King of Hearts.

-Dean Liddell, Alice’s father, might have been an inspiration for the White Rabbit.

Alice

Caterpiller

Cheshire Cat

-Main character of the story

-She is a seven-year-old English girl

- polite, well raised and interested in others

-based on a real girl, called Alice Liddell

-he teaches Alice the ‘rules’ of Wonderland

-He gives her insight in how things work down there.

-he is rather strict and not very friendly

-He teaches her how to change size by eating the mushroom

-the original illustrations are black-and-white, in the text the Caterpiller is described as being blue (‘a large blue caterpillar’).

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Review

Opinion

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