[Ron]
curiosity killed the cat but it also puts the zing in life, I mean
is'nt this the reason we all contribute here? to satisfy a curiosity?
whats it all about? whats it made of? how does it work?
Lewis Carroll was the pseudonym of the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
(1832-1898), a shy mathematics don at Christ Church, Oxford. He was
extremely fond of children and loved to entertain them with puzzles,
games and stories he had devised. The Alice books were based on stories
he told to entertain the three eldest daughters of the Reverend Henry
George Liddell, Dean of Christ Church. Many of the characters in the
book would be instantly recognisable to them as they were based on
people they knew, in and around Oxford. Dodgson's favourite of the
daughters was Alice and it was she who became the heroine of the
stories.
The story of Through the Looking-Glass describes Alice's adventures as
she moves symbolically from child to adult in a strange world entered
through a mirror above her drawing-room fireplace. The landscape there
is in the form of a giant chess board and Alice enters the game as a
white pawn. She travels across the board until she is crowned queen at
the eighth square. Along the way she encounters some of Carroll's most
memorable and enduring characters, among them Tweedledum and Tweedledee,
the Walrus and the Carpenter, The Lion and the Unicorn, and the
Jabberwock. The book is also filled with many fine nonsense poems and
songs which are still quoted from today. As with Alices Adventures in
Wonderland the story ends with Alice waking from a dream but the tone of
the book is altogether more melancholy and is prefaced by an extremely
sad poem which reflects Dodgson's own feelings about his young
child-friends growing up and entering the adult world. By the time
Looking Glass was published, Alice Liddell was nineteen years old and
Dodgson rarely saw her, although he remembered her fondly for the rest
of his life. He did, however, send three advance copies of the book to
the Liddell family with "the one for Alice being bound in morocco" as he
noted in his diary.
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