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Lewis Carroll Research Paper

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Finding clarity & sense through a wonderland Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, mathematician, logician, anglican deacon, and photographer. He was born January 27 of 1832 in Daresbury, United Kingdom. Lewis was the third born of eleven children. In 1843 his family moved to North Yorkshire. Meanwhile Carroll joined rugby school in 1846. Three years later he departed from the rugby school he was attending, and later started attending the Christ church of Oxford in 1851. Time went by and Carroll had done everything from attending school, to teaching it. Later started writing, and taking part in photography. Lewis Carroll was an inspirational artist, with an imagination as mad as a hatter, although …show more content…

Carroll started entertaining himself at a very young age. He entertained himself by writing poetry, performing magic tricks, and other exertions. Lewis Carrol done a beautiful job pursuing the things that made him who he was. Many of the writers work was based on games, in pursuance of a very playful, and childlike manner. He used magical creatures that nearly seem impossible. His pieces were magical, and would make you accredit that the supernatural was authentic. Carroll could write twenty words a minute, a page full of fine surrealism consisting of one hundred and fifty words in seven and a half minutes. Meanwhile in two and a half hours he could write a twelve page piece, in only two and a half hours. Charles was an extraordinary man with many skills. The pieces that make you believe in the unreal was phenomenal, with great …show more content…

Lewis Carroll wasn’t on drugs when writing Alice and Wonderland or any of his other pieces. Otherwise the stories would be a jumble of random madness, and aimless outlines. His pieces have much cleverness, and skill. In Alice and wonderland he mimicks a haughty game of chess, which not only proves his awareness, and attentiveness, but also that he was an extremely witty man. The documentation lacks the certainty of Carroll using drugs recreationally. Carroll being a writer, undoubtedly kept a journal to write about his adventures, and works. Again nothing was found that he was abusing drugs, to make him so creative, and off the wall with amazing literature. Carroll suffered from chronic migraines, epilepsy, he was partially deaf, and ADHD. If Lewis Carroll did partake an amount of Opium due to his chronic migraines, or even for recreational use. Opium is a highly addictive narcotic drug acquired in the dried latex of Opium Poppy. While research shows that these narcotic drugs such as Opium, Marijuana, and Cocaine aren’t performance enhancing drugs, they limit

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