Alice in the wonderland
I - The autor
-Lewis Carroll ( 1832-1898 ) -He lived during Victorian’s reign -His real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. - ( English ) Photographer / mathematician / writer - He spent his youth in Yorkshire and liked to make puppet shows. - In 1851, he enters to the university of Oxford and obtains a diploma of mathematics - He continues his career as teacher at the university and is ordered deacon in 1861. ( a deacon = un diacre is a role in the Christian church which consist in representing the help of the Christ ) -Besides his educational works on the mathematics, he writes news(short stories) in the magazine ' The Train ' under Lewis Carroll's pen name. - In 1865 he publishes his most famous work ' Alice in the Wonderland ', surrealist narrative having for heroine a little girl -He gives him it a continuation in 1872 ( Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There ) - In photography, his favourite subjects are girls disguised as fairy
II - The idea of writing ‘ Alice in the wonderland ‘
- Alice was published in 1865, three years after the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and the Reverend Robinson Duckworth rowed in a boat, on 4 July 1862, up the River Thames with three young girls:
Lorina Charlotte Liddell (aged 13, born 1849) ("Prima" in the book's prefatory verse)
Alice Pleasance Liddell (aged 10, born 1852) ("Secunda" in the prefatory verse)
Edith Mary Liddell (aged 8, born 1853) ("Tertia" in the prefatory verse).
The three girls were the daughters of Henry Liddell, the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University and Dean of Christ Church as well as headmaster of Westminster School.
The journey had started near Oxford and ended five miles away. Dodgson told the girls a story that he had just invented, they loved it, and Alice Liddell asked Dodgson to write it down for her.
III - The story
Alice is very bored and sleepy while sitting with