The Writing Style Of Alice's Adventures In Wonderland And Through The Looking Glass?

Lewis Carroll is widely known for his nonsensical writing style that is seen in all of his poems and stories. Carroll’s interest in literature started at a young age, and his love grew for writing as he got older. As Carroll began to embark on his adult life, after graduating college, his writings began to be published and noticed. Carroll’s most successful stories, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, were also produced during this time. “Jabberwocky,” a poem from Through the Looking Glass, tells the story of a boy going on a quest to slay a horrible beast. Carroll’s “Jabberwocky” is so famous and widely known for its ballad like stanzas and portmanteau word use, all of which make it so unique. Many critics such

While creating stories and writing poems, Carroll also began to take an interest in photography at this time. Carroll was declared “the most outstanding photographer of the nineteenth century” by an analyst of photography. While mostly focusing on photographing young girls, one in particular named Alice caught Carroll’s eye. Alice Liddell was the four year old daughter of the Oxford dean, and would later be the main character of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (Dodgson 141). Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, which was published in 1865, tells a dreamlike story of a young girl in a Wonderland where everything is not as it seems. Carroll’s sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland would be published in the year of 1871 as Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (Dodgson 141). Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, is yet another one of Carroll’s senseless stories about Alice. This time Alice would travel to a world where everything is reversed, almost like a mirror effect (Dodgson 142). In the story, Through The Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Alice finds a book with the poem of the “Jabberwocky written in it, which she is unable to understand until she holds it up to a mirror (“Jabberwocky” 90). It is said that even though Carroll continued writing until his death, no stories or poems amounted up

A few short months after Carroll’s death in 1898, a survey out of Paul Mall Gazette was released with the leading children's books, and Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland was at the very top of the list. Even Queen Victoria loved Alice’s whimsical stories so much that she insisted Carroll dedicated his next story to her. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There has been translated and quoted almost nearly as many times as William Shakespeare's work. Many authors of the twentieth century with the same nonsensical style as Carroll admired his work and sought to have the same writing abilities. Carroll is even given credit for the technique name that is still used today of “portmanteau” words, which is combining two or more words into one (Dodgson 139). Of course, none of Carroll’s stories would have become as popular if it were not for the inspiration of Alice, Edith, and Lorina Liddell. During Carroll’s world travels and boating expeditions, he would imagine and tell the nonsense tale of a young girl named Alice, and her two sisters, who appear as Eaglet and Lory. Carroll would later on publish the story with his own illustrations and title it as Alice’s Adventures Underground. Two years later an expanded version, with illustrations by John Tenniel was published and titled as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland