10. Study guide
t this page you can find summaries,
character descriptions and
analyses of literary elements in the 'Alice' books, which may come in handy when
you have to write a school paper or something the like. The purpose of these
pages is not to replace the joy of reading and analysing the books yourself, but
they are meant to be a helpful guideline to create your own understanding of the
stories.
Literary elements:
Summaries:
Character descriptions:
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland character descriptions
- Through the Looking Glass character descriptions
Analyses:
(Please mind that the following texts were not written by me personally. References to the author and publication details can be found on the page itself.)
- Science-Fiction and Fantasy Books by Lewis Carroll
- Lecture notes
- A Game of Words: the Ambiguities of Language in Through the Looking-Glass
- The Duck and the Dodo: References in the Alice books to friends and family
- The Jabberwocky
- Fantasy or Reality?
- The Precarious Reality of Alice's World
- Education's Role in the Alice books
- Food, Drink and Public health in the Alice books
- Lunacy in the Ballroom: A Carrollian Take on Traditional Mores
- Money in the Alice books
- Alice and the Victorian Gentleman
- "Alice--Mutton: Mutton--Alice": Parodies of Protocol in Through the Looking Glass
- Class in the Garden of Live Flowers
- Is Carroll Mocking Victorian Racism?
- Victorian Class Prejudices in the Alice Books
- Inventions in Alice in Wonderland
- Alice--Mutton: Mutton--Alice: Social Parody in the Alice Books
- Diluted and ineffectual violence in the 'Alice' books
- Lewis Carroll and the Search for Non-Being
- Tenniel's illustrations
External links:
- For a chapter-by-chapter analysis of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, you can visit Gradesaver or Pinkmonkey.
`And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject.
`Ten hours the first day,' said the Mock Turtle: `nine the next, and so on.'
`What a curious plan!' exclaimed Alice.
`That's the reason they're called lessons,' the Gryphon remarked: `because they lessen from day to day.'







