Lewis Carroll Research Paper

The victorian era was known for its uprise on the thought of childhood. Before this time period, children were seen as unproductive citizens. Almost as if they were useless. Adults would omission their childhood and make them work instead. In the eighteenth century, finally, childhood was seen as a time for amusement, a time for laughter and a time for innocence. Life was enjoyable, almost like a game. Indeed, some authors started writing novels, poems, and lullabies for children’s entertainment. This is when Lewis Carroll created his work of art. Perhaps Carroll did not know he would have such a big impact on the perspective of children when he wrote his stories. Undoubtedly, Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass were

«A place where (creatures) are players in a game called life.» (Anonymous) Authors are often influenced by their surroundings or their feelings while writing. In this century, people were contented, maybe because England became an Empire. Lewis Carroll was delighted. Thus, Lewis Carroll created stories about life being a game with a touch of absurdity and madness.
Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland is story involved around a young seven year old girl named Alice. She is a girl with a strong and powerful imagination that allows her to believe whatever she pleases. After falling down a rabbit hole, Alice needs to change her body size to incredibly miniature in order to enter Wonderland. She ends up changing from strangely enormous and finally reaching the right height. This could be Carroll making an exaggerated parallel to growing up and going through puberty. Anyhow, finally when she reaches the door

This time, Alice is playing chess with her kittens. All of a sudden, she looks at herself and her surroundings through a mirror. She then wonders what it would it be like if her world was upside down from a mirror’s perspective. Using her imagination, Alice enters the looking glass and discovers a world where life is a game of chess.“‘I declare it’s marked out just like a large chessboard!’” (Carroll, 192) Alice meets the Red Queen and admits she wants to be just like her. In order to become a queen, Alice has to obey the rules. She starts at the Second Square and needs to get to the Eight Square. Alice enjoys the thought of the world being a huge game of chess. “ It’s a great huge game of chess (...) Oh what fun it is!” (Carroll, 192) Alice has to follow rules, go through challenges and work hard to achieve her goal. This can be related to reality in a ridiculous way. «In this deterministic concept of life, free will is an illusion and individual choices are bound by rigidly determined rules and guided by an overarching, unseen force.»