Do you ever notice in stories, the female characters tend to be weak and sometimes have a mentor to guide them? Alice In Wonderland turned the tables on this type of character and made a strong, lively character Alice. Author Lewis Carroll disregarded the traditional plot lines and development of characters of his time by creating an empowered Alice, who overcomes the challenges in Alice In Wonderland.
Lewis Carroll was the pseudonym of reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson author of children's classics. Eldest of the family out of eleven, third in line seven girls and four boys. Born on January 27,1832 and died in Guilford, England. Shortly before his 66 birthday, Carroll caught a severe case of influenza which led to pneumonia and he died on January 14,1898. By age twenty, he received studentship at Oxford Christ Church and appointed a lecturer in mathematics and won many academic prizes. Even though he was astonishing at math, he was an avid photographer and wrote essays political pamphlets and poetry.
Carroll was so insecure about his appearance it made him react awkwardly towards others. He had physical deformities, partial deafness, and irrepressible stammer which made him an unlikely candidate for
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Carroll liked to pack picnics lunch and take the Liddell children boating on thames with adults and friends (Smithsonian). Out of the 3 Liddell children, Alice seemed to be his favorite, he loved photographing her with different outfits and incorporated references into his story Alice in Wonderland. On a Sunny cooled breeze day he took the Liddell sisters Lorina, Edith, and Alice on a stretch of the river between Oxford and Godstow, and told the first part of what would become Alice in Wonderland (Smithsonian). Alice in Wonderland story was a blend of literal mindedness and dream, formal etiquette and logic of