Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
Lewis Carroll –Conceptual Mind Map image - Coggle Diagram
Lewis Carroll –Conceptual Mind Map 
-
BIOGRAPHY
-
-
Born on 27 January 1832 in Daresbury, Cheshire, England
education
Matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford in 1850
-
Became a lecturer in Mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford (taught for 26 years)
Educated at home early on, then attended Richmond Grammar school and rugby school
-
Talented photographer (took many portraits, especially of children)
In 1856, became close friends with the Liddell family (Dean Henry Liddell’s daughters, especially Alice)
-
On 4 July 1862, told a story to the Liddell sisters during a boat trip on the River Thames
-
-
Never married,lived most of his life in Oxford
Died of pneumonia/bronchitis on 14 January 1898 in Guildford, Surrey
LITERARY PECULIARITIES
-
Brilliant word play, puns, invented words (“portmanteau” words)
Play with logic, paradoxes, and reversed rules
Satire of Victorian manners, education, and adult authority
-
-
Stories that question identity, time, rules, and reality
DETAILED ANALYSIS
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
Short Plot Description
A girl named Alice sits by the river when she sees a White Rabbit with a pocket watch. She follows him down a rabbit hole and falls into a strange underground world called Wonderland. There she meets many odd creatures: a smoking Caterpillar, the Mad Hatter and March Hare at a crazy tea party, the Cheshire Cat, and the cruel Queen of Hearts. Alice grows and shrinks, attends strange trials, and finally wakes up back by the river.
Characters
-
White Rabbit, Mad Hatter, March Hare, Dormouse, Cheshire Cat, Queen of Hearts, King of Hearts, Caterpillar
-
-
-
WORKS
Children’s Novels
-
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871)
-
-
Other
-
Sylvie and Bruno (two volumes, 1889–1893)