Alice Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

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Alice Through the Looking GlassbyLewis Carroll
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Alice Through the Looking GlassbyLewis Carroll

• Introduction
• Lewis Carrolls World
• 1. the 19th Century World Shift
• a.
• b.
• c.

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I. Introduction

• Cultural Anarchyage of machinery
• a.
• b.
• c.
• d.
• e

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I. Introduction

• Lewis Carroll
• 1. Charles Dodgson
• 2. The Liddells
• 3. Math, Logic, chaos,
• order, and photography

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II. Through the Looking Glass

• Introduction
• 1. not a continuation of AW
• 2. Change in Alice
• 3. central symbol
• 4. Structure

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B. Playing the Game

• Alices Tone and Maturitybig change
• In the Dark Wood
• Circles and Mirrors
• (narcissism, mirroring
• of self)
• a.
• b.
• c.

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C. Tweedle dum and Tweedle dee

1. Mirror images
2. ID
3. Narcissism
4. War
5. Signs to the house

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D. Humpty Dumpty

• 1. infantile
• 2. Center of the book
• Shape
• Language
• Contrast Alices maturity

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E. The White Knight

• White Knights mirror reflection is ______
• Heart-wrenching farewell to
• Alice
• 3. Alices last step to identity
• 4. Next move--

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III. Conclusion the Search for Order

• A. Alice searches for identity and meaning BUT
• B. Religious and Metaphysical assumptions
• C. Games and Toys wont work
• D. Alice books are the completion of the
  disillusionment of the 19th century

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III. Conclusion Search for Order (cont)

• E. Alices Heroism
• F. Return to order (at books end)?
• G. Who in the world are we (and who we are in
  the world) is a function of
• 1.
• 2.
• 3

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IV. Conclusion 2 Why are the Alice books
funny?

• Laughter laced with terror
• a.
• b.
• c.
• d.
• d.
• f.
• 2. Satire of what?
• 3. At the center of the Comedy is anarchy and
  total madness