The inappropriately overdressed, wild eyed and wild haired, riddle speaking, unbirthday celebrating, tea drinking mad hatter. The mad hatter is a term that came about before Alice in Wonderland ever existed, but the character was made famous by Lewis Carroll. My first small sculpture I made in high school was of the mad hatter. He ...
Alice requires no introduction – everyone is supposed to know her name, having read the story or not. Written by Lewis Carroll for a little girl he knew, the book combines fantasy and adventure with elements of tragedy, farce, comedy, madness, and absurdity, and is replete with plays on words, twisted logic, re-phrased rhymes and ...
For years literary critics and medical scholars alike have likened the scenes of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass to those of drug related hallucinations. The images of Alice, both shrinking and growing, have amused, intrigued, and even scared generations of readers. As a result, rumors have accused Lewis Carroll, whose real ...
When exploring the meaning of a text the inevitable result is that the reader will be incapable of separating the words written in the story or narrative from those that they may have read elsewhere regarding the life of the author of said story on a different occasion. In all cases an author’s work of ...
