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ARRoGANT CoURiERS WiTH ESSaYS
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Grade Level: Type of Work Subject/Topic is on:
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[x]6-8 [ ]Class Notes [Essay on Fairy Tale ]
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[ ]9-10 [ ]Cliff Notes [Nonsense ]
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[ ]11-12 [x]Essay/Report [ ]
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[ ]College [ ]Misc [ ]
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Dizzed: o4/95 # of Words:661 School: ? State: ?
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ENDURING, ENDEARING NONSENSE
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Did you read and enjoy Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland books as a
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child? Or better still, did you have someone read them to you? Perhaps
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you discovered them as an adult or, forbid the thought, maybe you haven't
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discovered them at all! Those who have journeyed Through the Looking Glass
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generally love (or shun) the tales for their unparalleled sense of nonsense.
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Public interest in the books--from the time they were published more
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than a century ago--has almost been matched by curiosity about their
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author. Many readers are surprised to learn that the Mad Hatter, the
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Cheshire Cat and a host of other absurd and captivating creatures sprung
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from the mind of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a shy, stammering Oxford
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mathematics professor.
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Dodgson was a deacon in his church, an inventor, and a noted children's
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photographer. Wonderland, and thus the seeds of his unanticipated success
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as a writer, appeared quite casually one day as he spun an impromptu tale
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to amuse the daughters of a colleague during a picnic. One of these girls
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was Alice Liddell, who insisted that he write the story down for her, and
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who served as the model for the heroine.
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Dodgson eventually sought to publish the first book on the advice of
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friends who had read and loved the little handwritten manuscript he had
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given to Alice Liddell. He expanded the story considerably and engaged the
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services of John Tenniel, one of the best known artists in England, to
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provide illustrations. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel
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Through The Looking Glass were enthusiastically received in their own
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time, and have since become landmarks in childrens' literature.
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What makes these nonsense tales so durable? Aside from the immediate
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appeal of the characters, their colourful language, and the sometimes
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hilarious verse ("Twas brillig, and the slithy toves/did gyre and gimble in
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the wabe:") the narrative works on many levels. There is logical
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structure, in the relationship of Alice's journey to a game of chess.
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There are problems of relativity, as in her exchange with the Cheshire Cat:
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"Would you tell me please, which way I ought to go from here?"
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"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."
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There is plenty of fodder for psychoanalysts, Freudian or otherwise,
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who have had a field day analyzing the significance of the myriad dream
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creatures and Alice's strange transformations. There is even Zen: "And she
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tried to fancy what the flame of a candle looks like after the candle is
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blown out..."
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Still, why would a rigorous logical thinker like Dodgson, a disciple of
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mathematics, wish children to wander in an unpredictable land of the
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absurd? Maybe he felt that everybody, including himself, needed an
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occasional holiday from dry mental exercises. But he was no doubt also
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aware that nonsense can be instructive all the same. As Alice and the
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children who follow her adventures recognize illogical events, they are
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acknowledging their capacity for logic, in the form of what should normally
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happen.
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"You're a serpent; [says the Pigeon] and there's no use denying it. I
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suppose you'll be telling me next that you never tasted an egg!"
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"I have tasted eggs, certainly," said Alice... "But little girls eat
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eggs quite as much as serpents do, you know."
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Ethel Rowell, to whom Dodgson taught logic when she was young, wrote
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that she was grateful that he had encouraged her to "that arduous business
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of thinking." While Lewis Carroll's Alice books compel us to laugh and to
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wonder, we are also easily led, almost in spite of ourselves, to think as
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well.
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FURTHER READING:
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Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass,
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with an introduction by Morton N. Cohen, Bantam, 1981.
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Lewis Carroll: The Wasp in a Wig, A "Suppressed Episode of Through the
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Looking-Glass, Notes by Martin Gardner, Macmillan London Ltd, 1977.
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Anne Clark: The Real Alice, Michael Joseph Ltd, 1981.
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Raymond Smullyan: Alice in Puzzleland, William Morrow and Co., 1982.
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