Topic > Nonsense and Justice in Alice's... by Lewis Carroll

You would think that Lewis Carroll, English author, mathematician and logician, would sit down and write a logical, didactic novel, but instead he wrote a novel of the nonsense literary genre. Unusual, isn't it? Perhaps we should take a closer look at Carroll's "nonsense" and see why it is considered random, senseless, unpredictable and ruleless. Furthermore, even justice is not spared from parody, injustice and chaos are logical consequences of life in Wonderland. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is the story of a little girl who comes into contact with the unpredictable, illogical and fundamentally crazy world of Wonderland by following the White. Rabbit in a huge rabbit hole. Everything he experiences there challenges his perception and questions common sense. This extraordinary world is inhabited by peculiar, mystical, anthropomorphic creatures who constantly assault Alice, forcing her to question her core beliefs and suffer an identity crisis. However, when he woke up from “such a curious dream” he couldn't help but think “well, what a wonderful dream it had been”. As I said before, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pseudonym Lewis Carroll, in addition to being an English author, was a mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. Carroll created the character of Alice to entertain her good friend Dean of Christ Church's daughter, a little girl named Alice Liddell. The story was first published in 1865. One of the key features of Carroll's story is his use of language. As a result, much of Alice's nonsense has to do with transpositions, both on a mathematical scale and in parodies of scrambled verse. As an illustration of the transposition on a mathematical scale...... half of the sheet......"Say with your head! " is never imposed, it is an act of self-preservation. For us adults, Lewis' constant violation of the law of logic is not natural, we fight against it, but if we look a little deeper into our inner child, we can understand why children love the improbable. I think we would all like to enter at least for a moment into this wonderful and wonderful world of Wonderland where everything is possible and nothing is reasonable and coherent they are crazy, but so no one is? To conclude I chose my favorite quote from the book because it is a nice example of silliness that spreads through the book. This humorous nonsense is one of the many reasons that makes this book very popular among both adults and children. All in all, Wonderland is a world we all want to sneak into.