Alice in

Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll

Kálmán Alexandra
Sándor Gréta
RAII
 Biographical data
● born on January 27, 1832 Daresbury, Cheshire, England
● logician, mathematician, photographer, and novelist
● real name: Charles Dodgson
● excelled in mathematical and classical studies at Oxford
● he never married
● passed away on January 14, 1898, Guildford, Surrey
 Some important works
● Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
● Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871)
● Jabberwocky (1871)
● The Hunting of the Snark (1876)
If I had a world of my own,
everything would be nonsense.
Nothing would be what it is,
because everything would be
what it isn’t. And contrary wise,
what is, it wouldn’t be. And what
it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?

-Lewis Carroll
 Interesting facts
● his name isn’t Lewis Carroll
○ he translated his real name to Latin as “Carolus
Ludovicus.” It was then translated back to English
as “Carroll Lewis”
 Interesting facts
● At some point in his early childhood,
Carroll developed a stammer which, he
called his ‘hesitation’.
 Interesting facts
● he was an amateur master photographer
○ over 3,000 photos
○ less than 1,000 have survived
○ more than half of those surviving show young girls
 Alice in Wonderland
● 1865
● Beloved British children book
● Fantastical tales and riddles
● It became one of the most popular works of
English-language fiction
● Children’s literature, fantasy fiction, absurdist
fiction, fantastique, nonsense literature
 Short summary
● It begins with a young girl named Alice, who falls
down a rabbit hole while chasing a white rabbit.
● Alice finds herself in a strange world called
Wonderland, meeting bizarre creatures and
situations.
● Alice navigates through a series of absurd events
and challenges, often going against logic and
rationality.
● Alice experiences size changes after drinking
potions and eating cakes, leading to comical and
unpredictable changes in her appearance.
● Ultimately, Alice's adventures end with her waking
up, leaving readers to wonder whether her
experiences were a dream or a fantastical reality.
 Main themes
Loss of childhood Life as a Death is
and innocence meaningless puzzle always around

Alice's weird size Alice deals with puzzling Alice gets into risky
changes symbolize situations that don’t situations
the confusion of make sense, just like suggesting that
growing up, like life's tricky problems. danger, like death,
puberty. might be there.
 Motifs
Dreams Destabilization
It mixes real-world things Wonderland keeps challenging her
with Alice's thoughts. normal understanding of how
things should be.

Language
Wonderland allows
anything, and Carroll's
wordplay reflects this
endless possibility.
Curious,nonsense
and confusing
She uses these words to
describe things she can’t
understand =criticise
 Symbols
The Garden The Caterpillar’s
mushroom
It might represent the Garden of
Eden, a perfect and innocent Some people believe that
place that Alice can't reach. It the mushroom is seen as a
also could stand for her strong drug that makes Alice's
desire to reach something. Both view of Wonderland seem
show how Alice wants to keep weird and unreal.
her innocent feelings as she
grows up, even though she
knows she has to let them go.
“Well, I’ve had
enough nonsense.
I’m going home!”
-Alice in Wonderland
 01 Green, Roger Lancelyn. "Lewis
Carroll". Encyclopedia Britannica, 13
Oct. 2023

02
Bibliography Lesso, Rosie. "What Does Alice
Represent in Alice in Wonderland?"
TheCollector.com, 30. Sept. 2023

03 Twomey, Aisling. “10 Things You

Didn’t Know About Lewis Carroll”.
Book Riot, 7 Dec. 2021

04 “8 Life Lessons You Can Learn from

Alice in Wonderland”. New English Teas
Thank you for
your attention!