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Alice Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

Alice Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll. Alice Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll. Introduction Lewis Carroll’s World 1. the 19 th Century World Shift a. b. c. I. Introduction. Cultural Anarchy—age of machinery a. b. c. d. e. I. Introduction.

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Alice Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

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  1. Alice Through the Looking GlassbyLewis Carroll

  2. Alice Through the Looking GlassbyLewis Carroll • Introduction • Lewis Carroll’s World 1. the 19th Century World Shift a. b. c.

  3. I. Introduction • Cultural Anarchy—age of machinery a. b. c. d. e

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

  5. II. Through the Looking Glass • Introduction 1. not a continuation of AW 2. Change in Alice 3. central symbol 4. Structure

  6. B. Playing the Game • Alice’s Tone and Maturity—big change • In the Dark Wood • Circles and Mirrors (narcissism, mirroring of self) a. b. c.

  7. C. Tweedle dum and Tweedle dee • Mirror images • ID • Narcissism • War • Signs to the house

  8. D. Humpty Dumpty 1. infantile 2. Center of the book • Shape • Language • Contrast Alice’s maturity

  9. E. The White Knight • White Knight’s mirror reflection is ______ • Heart-wrenching farewell to Alice 3. Alice’s last step to identity 4. Next move--

  10. III. Conclusion: the Search for Order A. Alice searches for identity and meaning BUT… B. Religious and Metaphysical assumptions C. Games and Toys won’t work D. Alice books are the completion of the disillusionment of the 19th century

  11. III. Conclusion: Search for Order (con’t) E. Alice’s Heroism F. Return to order (at book’s end)? G. Who in the world are we (and who we are in the world) is a function of: 1. 2. 3

  12. 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

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