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Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll. Charles Lutwidge Dogson was born in 1832 in Cheshire. His talent as a mathematician won him the Christ Church Mathematical Lectureship (Oxford), which he continued to hold for the next twenty-six years.

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Lewis Carroll

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  1. Lewis Carroll

  2. Charles Lutwidge Dogson was born in 1832 in Cheshire.

  3. His talent as a mathematician won him the Christ Church Mathematical Lectureship (Oxford), which he continued to hold for the next twenty-six years.

  4. In 1856, a new dean, Henry Liddell, arrived at Christ Church, bringing with him his young family. Dodgson became close friends with Liddell's wife, Lorina, and their children, particularly the three sisters: Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddell.

  5. On july 4, during a trip with the children, Dodgson invented a story that he entitled “ Alice’s adventures under ground”. He used the pseudonim of Lewis Carroll. Lewis was the anglicised form of Ludovicus, which was the Latin for Lutwidge, and Carroll being an anglicised version of Carolus, the Latin for Charles.

  6. Plot It is the story of a young girl, Alice, who follows a whit rabbit down a rabbit hole into an amazing world ehwre everything that happens is fantastic and illogical. Here she meets strange characters, things and animals. The novel is enclosed in a dream, in fact at the end Alice wakes up coming back to reality.

  7. The character of Alice is enspired on Alice Liddell. She is seven years old but seems to conduct herself like a somewhat older child. The novel takes place on May 4th, Alice Liddell's birthday.

  8. “Alice in wonderland” is not only a novel for children. In his book Carroll treats also many philosophical themes, which were discussed in the scientific salons of his time…

  9. The time: the character of the mad hatter is the the facetious rappresentation of Bergson( the philosopher), in fact he speaks about time as time itself was subjective and not objective.

  10. The language: Carroll is the creator of non-sense literature. He plays with the language using puns, subtleties of typography and philosophical paradoxes. The result is the non-sense sentence: the meaning of the words is known but not the link between them.

  11. H:“why is a raven like a writing-desk?” A:“Come,we shall have some fun now! I’m glad they’ve begun asking riddles. I believe I can guess that.” H:“then you should say what you mean” A:“I do. At least I mean what I say. That’s the same thing.” H:“not the same thing a bit! You might just as well say that “I see what I eat” is the same thing as “I eat what I see””

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