Lewis Carroll was educated at home until he was twelve years old. He was then sent to a small boarding school which is now part of Richmond School. When he was about fourteen he moved to Rugby School.
When Carroll was nineteen he went to Oxford University where he studied at Christ Church College.
"Jabberwocky", originally included in the novel "Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There".
The Alice from our beloved hildhood story is somewhat similar to the man behind the book himself. First, some background check: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, later to go by the pseudonym 'Lewis Carroll', had an awkward appearance and his irrepressible stammer and partial deafness hindered his social life, so he always felt uneasy around adults. Though he was a professor of mathematics at the prestigious Oxford University, he didn't enjoy the stiffness of the adult world; through his eyes, they were defined by rules and cold logic and molded by the chaotic, distorted politics of the time. He was, however, most comfortable around children, particularly young girls, with whom he let his imagination roam free and developed his outstanding story-telling skills. Thus, we can see Carroll's dilemma: he was caught in the world between childhood and adulthood and perhaps suffered from a nostalgia for the past. This same sort of confusion can be seen with Alice. As she eats the mystery cake and drinks from the non-poisonous bottle, she grows and shrinks randomly, but never seems able to fit through the coveted door. We can interpret this as a symbolic reference to the confusion and chaos between two identities: one still in childhood, and one entering the real world of adulthood. However, it is actually the opposite since Alice is transitioning from the world of reality to the world of fantasy, or wonderland, so we can say she is moving from the world of strict adults, backwards, to where she is free and liberated in a fantasy world. This may show how Lewis Carroll attempted to move through his life. by befriending little girls and young children (but not boys), he tried to move backwards to a time where he was a child.
lewis carroll because of his line of work could not marry because all poets can't
The most famous poem in 'Through the Looking Glass' is 'Jabberwocky'. But 'The Walrus and the Carpenter' is also very well known and also first appeared in that book.
Lewis Carroll also wrote several other poems which feature in 'Through the Looking Glass'; untitled, there is a poem which begins 'In winter, when the fields are white,' one entitled 'I give thee all, I can no more', a parody of 'Rock a bye baby' called 'Hush-a-by lady', one that begins 'To the Looking-Glass world it was Alice that said', a poetic riddle with the first line 'First, the fish must be caught', and, at the very end of the book, an acrostic, in which the first letter of each line spells out Alice Liddell's name, beginning 'A boat, beneath a sunny sky'.
There are also several pre-exisiting nursery rhymes, which Carroll didn't write, but which inspired characters and incidents in the book; 'Tweedledum and Tweedledee', 'Humpty Dumpty', and 'The Lion and the Unicorn'.
There are several answers to this question.
As Lewis Carroll made up Alice in Wonderland as he went along, one afternoon in 1865, to entertain some children he knew, you could say that it took him no time at all to write it.
One of the children loved the story and asked him to write it down for her. It took Carroll two years from when he was asked until he gave her the version he wrote down for her.
He then decided to have the book published, so he edited, added to and rewrote the hand written version and it was finally published exactly three years after he first made up the story.
Lewis Carroll taught Mathematics at Christ Curch College, Oxford under his real name, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson.
If you go through all the stages of a temporal lobe seizure you can almost turn to the next chapter of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and they match up. Like the first thing you experience are Aura's or simple partial seizures, and it often feels like your stomach is rising, like you do when you fall. Kind of like Alice down the rabbit hole, and so on and so forth.
I guess it all depends on what you mean by "take". He definitely took medication, but everyone does. However, please don't be one of those people that are sure he was on drugs and that's how he came up with Alice's stories. It was a mix of his handicaps (his stuttering his name inspired the Dodo bird's character), his friendships (he incorporated the Liddell girls a lot throughout the story, from Alice's birthday to their nicknames), his takes on the world (like how he felt about politics, and children's literature) that he might not have been able to express what with his overbearing father (who was a reverend and I feel made him join the priesthood) and POSSIBLY medications he might have taken.
Its a wonderful story to want to delve into, but don't be biased and stay open to interpretation, its what makes his writing so fascinating because of how faceted it is. Everyone can take something different from it.
- Alicia
Well with the mentioning of him using belladonna, he could have gotten some inspiration from that because they say a person who takes belladonna becomes mad as a hatter.... But then again it could be just a coicidence.. There are also drug references/drug state of minds being referenced in the movie like when Alice is talking to the flowers there are morning glories (LSA) a psychadelic and there are poppy plants in there too... The fact that she is talking to the flowers is like a drug induced state (people conversate with flowers when you are tripping hard). She also eats mushrooms and drinks many body/mind altering substances throughout the movie. She drink bottles of unlabled liquid that make her shrink and these cookie things that make her bigger. It all could be relative to taking drugs but it also could just be random coincidences too bad he's not around today to ask him.....
Yes, Lewis Carroll wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
His real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and his pen name 'Lewis Carroll' was derived from the Anglicized version of his Latinized name.
i believe the theme is that things ar enot always as they seem and that wisdom comes with age; the older dysters did not leave the oyster bed only the youngsters
He is buried in Guildford Cemetery in Surrey.
Lewis Carroll enjoyed reasonably good health until the moderately advanced age (for the time) of 66, then died suddenly in 1898 of pneumonia.
Lewis Carroll is the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 - 14 January 1898), a lecturer in mathematics at Oxford University and a church deacon who wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel, Through the Looking Glass (1871). Originally conceived as nursery tales for the daughter of family friends, they quickly became classics of children's literature. Carroll also wrote light verse, including The Hunting of the Snark.
If you mean Lewis Carroll, that was the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Among many things, he was a writer and mathematician who wrote "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass", the popular "Alice in Wonderland" books.
How Doth the Little Crocodile was written as a parody of Against Idleness and Mischief by Isaac Watts.
How doth the little busy bee
Improve each shining hour,
And gather honey all the day
From every opening flower!
How skillfully she builds her cell!
How neat she spreads the wax!
And labours hard to store it well
With the sweet food she makes.
In works of labour or of skill,
I would be busy too;
For Satan finds some mischief still
For idle hands to do.
In books, or work, or healthful play,
Let my first years be passed,
That I may give for every day
Some good account at last
The moral message of Watts' poem is that through business and productive labour we will not fall into evil ways. Carroll's poem subverts or questions this by asking what happens if our labours themselves are inherently evil.
How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale!
How cheerfully he seems to grin,
How neatly spreads his claws,
And welcomes little fishes in,
With gently smiling jaws!
There has been an attempt to relate all of Lewis Carrol's nonsensical poems with mathematical concepts. Whether this was the author's intention or not there has been curious and quite valid arguments made for each one. In the case of How Doth The Little Crocodile the mathematical concept would be a cumulative sum. That which is usually depicted by the Greek symbol sigma.
Alice...from the books 'Adventures in Wonderland' of 1865 and 'Alice through the Looking Glass' and 'What Alice found there' of 1871
Apart form Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, he also wrote its sequel, Through the Looking Glass. His other novel was the two-part work, Sylvie and Bruno and Sylvie and Bruno Concluded. His other best known piece is the poem The Hunting of the Snark. Other than these he also wrote a great many poems and articles, and under his real name, Charles Dodgson, he wrote numerous texts about mathematics.
Lewis Carroll wrote three versions of Alice in Wonderland. The first one he wrote was Alice's Adventures Under Ground, which was a hand written version of the story he told to Alice Liddell and her sisters during a rowing trip. It was published in 1986.
The second version was Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. This was a lengthened version of the original, with new scenes added and illustrations by John Tenniel. It was actually published before Alice's Adventures Under Ground, in 1865, and is the version most of us know today.
The third version Carroll wrote was The Nursery "Alice", which was written to be shorter and simpler, so that younger children could enjoy it. It was published in 1890.
To read and compare the different versions online, follow the Related Links below
in a way, it was his reaction to the time period in which he grew up. Lewis Carroll always wanted to be original. he himself said "Perhaps the hardest thing in all literature.. is to write anything original". Nevertheless, he worked his hardest to come up with masterpeices of literature of the likes the world had never seen . His nonsense poetry and literature seemed to revoke the rigid, set rules and defining guidelines and expectations of the Victorian Era. His writing broke with contemporary tradition. For example, children literature at the time was usually didactic and preaching morals and virtues, not necessarily the most entertaining things. To the contrary, Carroll's nonsensical, humurous tone created a new literary trend in the age. his use of simple diction granted readers of all ages access to his works; children were amused by the main characters' adventures and discoveries, while adults intrigued in the witty, clever lines, and the symbolic social commentary.
Lewis Carroll caught a pneumonia which turned out to be severe influenza, and died on 14 January 1898. His body is buried in Guildford at the Mount Cemetery
Lewis Carroll became famous by writing Alice in Wonderland. I don't know what story he told, but the first time he told any of his stories was on a boating trip. :-)
Carroll presented Alice Liddell with the first, handwritten version of the story on November 26, 1864. It was called Alice's Adventures Under Ground.