Essays Tagged: "Through the Looking Glass"

Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland

an adult or, forbid the thought, maybe you haven'tdiscovered them at all! Those who have journeyed Through the Looking Glassgenerally love (or shun) the tales for their unparalleled sense of nonsense ... known artists in England, to provideillustrations. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through TheLooking Glass were enthusiastically received in their own time, and havesince become land ...

(2 pages) 117 0 2.8 Oct/1995

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

An essay that talks about the life of Lewis Carroll

ographer, and a mathematician. Carroll wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1865,he then wrote Through The Looking Glass in 1872. He was a skilled photographer that enjoyed photographing children ...

(2 pages) 41 0 3.0 Dec/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

e most lastingly delightful children's books in English are "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass". Here are what Albert Baugh write about them in "A Literary History of En ... . In them are elements of satire and parody which connect them with a long tradition, but they shot through with a quality distorted logic (for their author was a professional mathematician and logici ...

(1 pages) 98 1 3.3 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Pink Flamingo.

at just about every zoo. You can find them in storybooks. Aliceuses flamingos as croquet mallets in Through the Looking Glass (by Lewis Carroll).Images of flamingos, standing under palm trees, appear ... y decided thatflamingos belong in a group by themselves.There are 5 species of flamingos that occur throughout the world. Thegreater flamingo is as tall as a grown-up person is. The lesser flamingo is ...

(4 pages) 39 0 3.5 Apr/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Zoology

Metalanguage in a world of nonsense based on the book Alice in the Wonderland

xplores Carroll's Wonderland in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, serving as a guide for the reader through this world. Carroll's world of nonsense reflects a different type of speech where statements ... ich speech semantics dominate.Marret expresses clearly that in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Carroll's intuitions of emptiness and nonsense are the foundations of thi ...

(4 pages) 22 0 0.0 Oct/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Fantasy: "Alice in Wonderland" and "Wizard of Oz"

Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass and Wizard of Oz are great works of fantasy. Each novel incorporates aspec ... s from Bettelheim, Freud and Jung can be applied in analyzing each work.In both Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass and Wizard of Oz , the authors delineate essential components to show how ... o, she found her own self-image deteriorating, questioning her previously stable self-image. But in Through the Looking Glass her maturity and new reassurance in herself is present. We can see this by ...

(6 pages) 27 1 0.0 Sep/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Analysis of "Jabberwocky"

's quest to kill a beast, called the Jabberwocky, and when the boy returns back home to be honored. Throughout the poem, Carroll uses a lot of cacophony to build up suspense for the reader. Thus when ... nasty but thrilling setting, which gives the poem a fantasy-like essence. Carroll takes the reader through a creative journey. The nonsense words are also imaginative terms. The reader must use their ...

(3 pages) 15 0 0.0 Nov/2010

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry