The Profundity behind Insanity Victorian secrets revealed in Alice in Wonderland
Date Submitted: 12/14/2004 04:55:30
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 5 pages (1248 words)
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 5 pages (1248 words)
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lice in Wonderland is one of the most often-quoted books in English, up there with the big deals like the Bible and Hamlet. But this most influential story was indeed written down at the request of a little girl. In this children's work, not only do logic and causality work differently in Wonderland, but all the people and animals there seem to be a little bit insane. But there is profundity behind insanity.
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…as: is it necessary for Carroll to use the time-honored framework of a dream that goes back to ancient English texts as the fourteenth-century Piers Plowman in a children's tale? And do the frequent references to death in the story show that Alice is a Victorian Goth? To discover those, the best way, I think, is what Lewis Carroll wrote in the Easter Greeting Letter to every child who loves Alice in 1876: "Please to Fancy!"
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