Biography and Critical Analysis of Lewis Carrol and his work "Alice in Wonderland".

Lewis Carroll was born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson on January 27th, 1832 in Daresbury in Cheshire. He was the eldest son and third child in a family of seven girls and four boys. His parents Charles and Frances Dodgson, whom were first cousins, were Anglican clergyman and were known to be extremely religious. After being taught in public school for his secondary education, he enrolled into Christ Church, Oxford University in 1850 were he proceeded to earn his …

…outside force. Carroll uses characters such as the Queen of Hearts as problems and the Caterpillar as guides. Carroll also uses the problem of sudden change to show stages in maturity. Every time Alice rose to a new level of knowledge, she grew or shrunk and was able to get into a new area and face a new problem. Carroll carefully wove all the details of his story to directly assist in building his theme.