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? asked in Arts & HumanitiesBooks & Authors · 9 years ago

Lewis Carrolls "Through the looking glass".?

Carroll wrote this classic as a story for children, but was there a deeper satirical meaning pertinent for its time?

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  • 9 years ago
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    No, he just meant it as a nonsensical story to amuse children. His other works have nothing to do with current events. Also, he was well known for making up amusements for children.

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    5 years ago

    I love that poem. One of the most neatest things about it is the method he manages to personify the younger oysters with only a few phrases and contours and make you love them, at the least somewhat, and then has the Walrus and the chippie devour them so casually, so matter-of-factly, so effortlessly. Exceptional tragedy is like that; the Walrus and carpenter are usually not doing something major to them, simply shooting the breeze about some thing involves mind, be it serious or trivial--and having lunch--but the penalties are large for the oysters. You might--i am now not saying Lewis Carroll did--compare that scene to one of the vital results of British colonialism within the nineteenth century, the place the Brits had been just carrying on business as ordinary but the results on indigenous peoples from Africa to India had been traditionally fairly severe.

  • 9 years ago

    i'm not quite sure, been wondering that myself actually... have you tried Wikipedia?

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