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Nineteenth Century Literature Detroit Gale Research
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Robert Maxwell Du Maurier
1,429 wordsRobert Maxwell: The Man and the Mystery by Anita Cheek Moon for The Paper Store, Inc. -- March VISIT web -- Robert Maxwell, the infamous tycoon who is remembered as much for his personality and ethics in his business dealings as he is for his accomplishments, died in 1991. Debates over his life and diversions, however, will loom well into the future. Perhaps fittingly, Maxwell is reported to have died while urinating off the side of his twenty-one million dollar yacht the Lady Ghislaine (Informa...
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Alice In Wonderland Lewis Carroll
1,107 wordsCharles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, is recognized by all as the silly fairy-tale author of stories such as Alice in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass. However, little is known about what drove him to write such obviously fantastic stories. Themes such as nonsense and fantasy, education, drug abuse, racism and prejudice, money, malnutrition and public health are touched upon throughout his works. While only speculation can be offered, it is clear that these ...
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Alice In Wonderland Worth A Thousand
1,090 words... mages, Alice in Wonderland, at once views the adult world on a childs level, questions the authority of adults and of royalty, and mocks commonly held prejudices of its day (Kelly 215). Obviously, Carroll's writing is completely fantastic nonsense. Throughout Alice in Wonderland, there are thousands of references to a bizarre fantasy-land. Alice thought she had never seen such a curious croquet ground in her life: it was all ridges and furrows: the croquet balls were live hedgehogs, and the ...
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Meaning Of The Poem Lewis Carroll
670 wordsIn Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky the use of imagination is a must. Carroll makes up words with rhyming sounds. This confuses the reader a little, but strangely enough you get some kind of an idea of what he is writing about. This is where the imagination comes in. When I heard these bizarre rhyming words for the first time my initial thought was that this poem doesn't make any sense. As I read on and certain words would go through my head, bells started going off, filling my head with ideas about ...
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Lewis Life And Influence In Alice Wonderland
1,106 wordsOf all of Lewis Carroll's works, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has a unique standing in the category of whimsical, nonsense literature. Much has been written about how this novel contrasts with the vast amount of strict, extremely moralistic childrens literature of the Victorian time Lewis Carroll lived in. Yet, as odd as this novel appears in relation to the other Victorian childrens stories, this short novel is odder because it was written by an extremely upright, ultra conservative man; a ...
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Lewis Life And Influence In Alice Wonderland
1,117 words... uspicious of his motives for associating with her children (DLB v. 163 61). Despite her feelings, Carroll was still permitted to escort the girls on day trips, which they enjoyed (62). During the afternoon of July 4, 1862, the story, which would become known as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, was told for the first time (63). Carroll created this fascinating story to entertain the Liddell girls, Login, Alice, and Edith throughout a boat ride on the river Isis. From all three girls came the...
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Alice Adventures In Wonderland Lewis Carroll
651 wordsEvents or people in their lives inspire many authors. It is reflected in their writing. Lewis Carroll was inspired to write Alice in Wonderland by the real-life relationship with an Alice and his other child-friends. Lewis Carroll was born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson in Danbury, Cheshire, on January 27, 1832 (Gattgno, 1976, p. xi). He was the son of a clergyman and the first born of eleven children. Carroll was educated at Rugby from 1846 to 1850 and at Christ Church College, University of Oxford, ...
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Alice In Wonderland Identity Crisis
729 wordsIdentity Crisis Loss of innocence is often a theme in stories that center on a single, isolated child who is struggling to grow up. However, a theme authors often overlook is the loss of identity that accompanies such a lonely journey. In Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, the author portrays the transition from childhood to adulthood as a lonely, traumatic experience. Exaggerated growth and shrinking represent the changes Alice endures but cannot come to terms with. Carroll intends to show th...
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Alice Adventures In Wonderland Coming Of Age
1,820 wordsIn Victorian England, society expected children to make the transition into adulthood as soon as possible. This expectation caused acute mental and emotional stress upon many of the children of this age, as Lewis Carroll shows in the character of Alice in his book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Coming-of-age in the twenty-first century, however, is a longer, more painful journey than it was during the time in which Lewis Carroll lived. Teenagers must now deal with the emotional aspects of ad...
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Alice In Wonderland Nonsense
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Lewis Carroll's works Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There are by many people considered nonsense books for children. Of course, they are, but they are also much more. Lewis Carroll had a great talent of intertwining nonsense and logic, and therefore creating sense within nonsense. If you look past the nonsense you can find a ne...
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Adventures In Wonderland Alice
1,314 wordsDifferences Between Alice's Adventures In Wonderland And Differences Between Alice's Adventures In Wonderland And Through The Looking Glass At the mention of the name Alice, one tends to usually think of the children? s stories by Lewis Carroll. Namely, Alice? s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass are two classic works of children? s literature that for over a century have been read by children and adults alike. These two stories tell the tale of a young girl named Alice who f...
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Adventures In Wonderland Alice
668 wordsEvents or people in their lives inspire many authors. It is reflected in their writing. Lewis Carroll was inspired to write Alice in Wonderland by the real-life relationship with an Alice and his other child-friends. Lewis Carroll was born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson in Danbury, Cheshire, on January 27, 1832 (Gatt? go, 1976, p. xi). He was the son of a clergyman and the first born of eleven children. Carroll was educated at Rugby from 1846 to 1850 and at Christ Church College, University of Oxford,...
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Alice Adventures In Wonderland Lewis Carroll
467 wordsEnglish 265 Modern Poetry Poet: Lewis Carroll Term Paper Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was born on the 27 th of January in the year of 1832 and died on the 14 th of that same month in 1898. His pseudonym, Lewis Carroll, was born on March 1 st, 1856 and was destined to live forever. Most poets live out of sync with the era they exist in, but Carroll lived a particularly bizarre lifestyle. He was a mathematician as well as a poetic scholar. It is rare for someone to excel at either one individually, ye...
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Horror Genre Horror Films
1,211 wordsMorbid Fascinations: Carroll on Horror The Philosophy of Horror; or Paradoxes of the Heart by Noel Carroll is an in depth look at the reasons why so many people are intrinsically drawn to images of horror and gore and death in film, art, and life. Carroll discuss the many avenues that people have taken in the past to explain this phenomenon, this apparent paradox of how artistic presentation of normally averse events and objects can give rise to pleasure. (Carroll, p 161) This paradox is a parti...
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2,884 wordsCraig H. Brockman Instructor: Eric Becker College Writing 221624 23 April 2000 The Diallo Incident; One Officers Perspective In the quiet post-midnight hours of February 4, 1999, 41 shots rang out in the entry vestibule of a South Bronx apartment house. Within seconds, a young man laid dead, four policemen standing over his lifeless body. A 22 -year-old immigrant from West Africa was the unfortunate victim. The police officers: four white men from the New York City Police Departments Street Crim...
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Alexander The Great Hanging Gardens
2,282 wordsThe famed Seven Wonders of the Ancient World is a collection of seven great temples, monuments, and tombs. The list of wonders is comprised of the Great Pyramid of Giza, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, the Temple of Artemis at Ephesos, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the Colossus of Rhodes, and the Pharos at Alexandria. Six of these marvels have long been destroyed, but their legacies shall live forever. (Carroll, 6 - 15) The Great Pyramid of Giza was built for the...
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483 wordsCarroll s Looking Glass During the Victorian age, many poets flourished in the spotlight of being independent in their own creative way of composing poetry and literature. During a time of strict morals, many people felt that there was a need to break loose. Lewis Carroll, a math professor, had a tremendous imagination and used it to his advantage to create some of the most profound stories for children. At this time in society, the Industrial Revolution began. Social reform took place, and the ...
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