blog




  • Essay / Absurdities and Justice in Alice's... by Lewis Carroll

    You would think that Lewis Carroll, an English author, mathematician and logician, would sit down and write a logical and didactic novel, instead he wrote a novel of the absurd literary genre. Unusual, isn't it? Perhaps we should take a closer look at Carroll's "absurdities" and see why they are considered random, senseless, unpredictable and without rules. Moreover, even justice is not spared from parody, injustice and chaos are logical consequences of life in Wonderland. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is the story of a little girl who comes into contact with the unpredictable, illogical and fundamentally crazy world of Wonderland by following the White Path. Rabbit in a huge rabbit hole. Everything she experiences there calls into question her perception and questions common sense. This extraordinary world is inhabited by peculiar, mystical, anthropomorphic creatures who constantly attack Alice, causing her to question her core beliefs and suffer an identity crisis. Nevertheless, as she awoke from “such a curious dream,” she could not help but think “as well as she could, what a wonderful dream that had been.” As I mentioned earlier, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pseudonym Lewis Carroll, in addition to being an English author, he was a mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. Carrol created the character Alice to entertain the daughter of his good friend Dean of Christ Church, a little girl named Alice Liddell. The story was first published in 1865. One of the key features of Carroll's story is his use of language. Consequently, much of Alice's absurdities have to do with transpositions, either on a mathematical scale or in parodies of garbled verse. To illustrate the transposition of a mathematical scale...... middle of paper ...... "With your head!" is never applied, it is an act of self-preservation. For us , adults, Lewis's constant violation of the law of logic is unnatural, we struggle with it, but if we look a little deeper at our inner child, we can understand why children love in improbable ways I think. that we would all like to enter at least just for a moment into this wonderful and wonderful world of Wonderland where everything is possible and nothing is reasonable and consistent Wouldn't it be nice to be in a world where everyone. is crazy, but where is no one so? For my conclusion, I chose my favorite quote from the book because it is a great example of absurdities that spread throughout the book This humorous absurdity is one. of the many reasons that make this book extremely popular with adults and children alike. All things considered, Wonderland is a world we all want to sneak into.