Lewis Carroll Research Paper

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The inspiration of Lewis Carroll’s “ Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”
Rumors say that Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ( Lewis Carroll) was a paedophile. Lewis Carroll had a lot of mental problems, but he somewhat knew what he was doing by showing the connections of his writing to real-world problems and scenarios.Lewis Carroll had a lot of negative relationships with a few real-world problems and often incorporated them in his writing. No one actually knows the truth about these allegations, although there is some pretty harsh evidence saying he was in fact a paedophile.
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson or also know as his pen name, Lewis Carroll, was born on January 27, 1832 in Daresbury, Cheshire, England to Charles Dodgson and Francis Jane Lutwidge (“Lewis …show more content…
When Carroll was with children, he felt more comfortable; like he could be himself without mockery. He could speak without him getting nervous because of his stammer. although he spent a lot of time with different children, he had a somewhat obsession with the Liddell sisters; his neighbors daughters(“Lewis Carroll Biography”). The three little girls names was Lorina, Alice, and Edith Liddell. According to the authors of alice-in-wonderland.net, Lewis would take the three on “adventures” and the most wonderful stories about “dream worlds” (“Lewis Carroll Biography”). one of the reasons people accused Carroll of being a paedophile is because around the same time he was spending a lot of time with the girls, there was a picture taken of the eldest sister, Lorina Liddell, completely nude that is now in a French museum (“BBC Investigates Whether Lewis Carroll Was ‘repressed Paedophile’ after Nude Photo Discovery”).
Alice. The girl that inspired Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was the middle sister Alice. When he would take the three sisters on their little adventures, Carroll would tell them dreamy stories about other worlds. On a day that Carroll and the three sisters were with each other, they all went on a picnic and he began to tell “the first iteration of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” (“Lewis Carroll Biography”). …show more content…
You can first see that when you notice he uses a pseudonym to be able to write his books; going from Charles Dodgson to Lewis Carroll. When Lewis Carroll was writing Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Carroll made the animals in the wonderland as victims and the cat Dinah as a predator(“Alice in Wonderland.net”). Another example of how Carroll incorporated dual personalities in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland would be when Alice was falling down the rabbit hole and the top end and the bottom end came together as one, and according to the author of alice-in-wonderland.net, Alice pretends to be two people, speaking in two different
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