Jabberwocky Essay

Lewis Carroll, pen name for the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, was known for writing children's books about exotic creatures and places that are best described as psychotropic dreams that have come to life. His unique, Surrealist writing stood out amongst the Victorian era’s Realist writing style, which focused on realistic events such as the everyday lives of common people. Carroll not only wanted his works to captivate the readers, but also to make them contemplate a paradox he sets forth within his work. Carroll would also create his own, original words and their meanings, displayed in his poem “Jabberwocky”, in which the words look almost like a foreign language; however, through the rhythm of the poem, they come together to inspire a vision of an irrational, awe-inspiring world. The inspiration for his works is greatly credited to the children of his colleagues, whom he often created magnificent stories for to amuse them. In the 1930s, Carroll’s relationships with the children he considered his friends began to

Surrealism blends reality and dreams into one in order to create art and/or literature unlike anything seen before it. Writers of this movement were able to incorporate their own dreamlike imagination into their views of reality in their works, allowing for a more personal undertone to be found by readers. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland appears to have come from the Surrealist movement on account of the whimsical world that Alice finds herself in; however, it did in fact, originate from the Realist movement. The Realist movement of the late nineteenth century was based solely on recreating fact, with little to no room for creative fiction. Lewis Carroll’s and the Victorian era; he was unafraid of being