10 Wonderful Facts About Lewis Carroll
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- čas přidán 13. 09. 2024
- Lewis Carroll's real name was Charles L. Dodgson. The pen name came about by taking his own name, Charles Lutwidge, translating it into Latin - Carolus Ludovicus, reversing the names and retranslating them into English - hence, Lewis Carroll.
Born in Cheshire, Charles was the third of 11 children.
Dodgson suffered from a bad stammer and was deaf in one ear.
Dodgson's first piece of work under his pen name was a romantic poem called Solitude, published in 1856
Alternative titles considered for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland included Alice Among the Fairies and Alice's Golden Hour.
Dodgson denied that Alice was based on his real life friend, Alice Liddell.
An acrostic poem is where the first letter on each line makes up a word or words. Such a poem can be found at the end of Through the Looking Glass which spells out Alice Liddell's name, leading people to believe that he did in fact base the character after his real life friend.
Queen Victoria supposedly was a big fan of the book and suggested to Dodgson that he dedicate his next book to her - Carroll denied this to be true.
Dodgson took up photography and excelled at the art. He photographed many famous people include Alfred Lord Tennyson and created approximately 3000 images. But after 24 years of taking pictures he abruptly stopped.
Chess figured prominently in Dodgson's work. References to the game can be found in Through the Looking Glass. Some of his photographs feature chess being played and it has been documented that Dodgson was an avid player.
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The shouting number countdown was really annoying.
The whole thing is really annoying!
Exactly what i was thinking xDDD
The dodo in the book is based off of himself; because of his stammer, he pronounced his name 'do-do-dodgson'
I love this man.
I've read that the "g" in Dodgson was silent.
No, it is pronounced "DoD je (soft g) son"
But when you say it fast, the "g" is almost silent.
Thank you very much for the very interesting facts about Lewis Carrol. I was very surprise why he didn`t try to pick other names for all the characters of the book Alice in Wonderland, like White Rabbit which I would like to call it (him) as Horatio (timekeeper ;). By the way, my favorite character is Cheshire which can be easily invisible whenever needed.
Wonderful Lewis Carroll fact 11: Little sister Alice is superior to both Mother Alice and Daughter Alice
real life "friend" ... please
Great man who gave birth to great works
why is this my homework
I had no idea he had a stammer.
What's going on at 2:15 with this woman's morphing hair? Is it an optical illusion, or just bad green-screening?
They didn't even bother to green-screen. They filmed her, and then just cut out a rough shape of her body and pasted that into the picture. Basically, there's a background and then a video cut down to the shape of a woman superimposed on it. She keeps going slightly out of frame, that's the morphing.
The series "Pretty Little Liars" have been hugely inspired by "Alice in Wonderland" and the origins of the tale, with the story of Charles Dodgson and Alice Liddell : this video shows how...
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she looks like an older Lana McKissack!!!
How is a Raven like a writing desk? It's a mystery that's been plaguing man since Lewis Carrol first asked it in Alice in Wonderland. But there is an answer! I won't give it away here, think about it and then check out the answer at the following website, in the album marked Answer To Riddle facebook.com/pages/Poe/261448940641880?ref=hl
Umm no and the riddle is just nonsense there is no answer that kinda the point
Fact: His work in arithmatic helped in the formation of Calculus. Question: Who is the narrator and why did she stop making the videos?
I thought Issac Newton and Liebniz invented or used Calculus centuries before Dodgson.
Dodgson's main contribution was in logic theory.
Yep. His Symbolic Logic series set up topology and digital logic analysis.
@@japonaliya
Didn't Lewis Carroll discovered algebra also??
He was supposedly autistic.
the world needs more autistic people that's for shit sure
I have no idea what he saw in Alice Liddell. Who besides Carroll would have even looked at her twice?
A matter of opinion, I suppose. In the Liddell family the story was that he asked for Alice's hand in marriage, but her mother wanted her to marry into the nobility and a young maths lecturer was considered below her.
That is what a Muse is.
Not about looks,
but it does grip your heart.
Alice was,
what I call,
his "Grail Girl"...
Admiration, obssession, enthronement, adoration and worship.
The stuff Romantic art is made of.
It's bad enough to disparage Carroll, but now you say that Alice herself was plain and ugly? Not according to the many people she enamoured as a child or the many suitors she had as an adult. My own eyes see a very precocious child who had a way of twisting adults around her little finger, and Carroll among many saw that she was a "pistol"
You ain't that good looking yourself sweetie.
Try Ruskin and the Prince of Wales for starters.
As a woman she might not have stood out, but the child Alice was very cute. However, it was Alice's personality that Carroll admired.
Many of his later "child friends" that he associated with were not beauties.
For example, one of his favorite models was Xie Kitchen. Certainly not a "beauty" by our standards.
And one of his most enduring child friends was Gertrude Chataway, who looked almost like a boy.
Fact 11 - He carried safety pins when he went to the beach in case he met little girls who needed to pin up their dresses to go paddling. He also carried a black bag full of treats to give to little girls he might meet.
Fact 12 - Alice Liddell's mother was unhappy about Dodgson's friendship with Alice and burnt his letters to her.
Fact 13 - Dodgson liked to take nude pictures of little girls and left instructions that they should be burnt on his death
Fact 14 - This was all completely innocent.
All your facts are true. Yes he did like to befriend little girls, but that doesn't mean his motivations we're sexual.
Yes Alice's mother had issues with Dodgson but they we're not based on him being a pedophile but about his social standing. Had Dodgson been Dean or had royal blood, things may have been different.
She did burn his letters to Alice but that also had more to do with Carroll's disagreement with her husband. Though Carroll "may" have brought up the subject of a future engagement to Alice, he was a proper gentleman, not a predator. Had he been so, would the Liddell family let him continue to live a few yards from the Deanery until he retired?
Lastly, all of the massive 30 some odd nudes he took out of over 3,000 photographs was with the parents permission and he directed to return to the families as many photos and negatives that could be, and destroy the rest as a matter of privacy, not shame!
Sometimes facts can be right, but SO wrong at the same time...
@@japonaliya bro i think you need to think a little harder about all this
@@quest2782 I think you should study LC and the Victorian era, the Pre-Raphaelites, read "Men in Wonderland" by Catherine Robson before you open your stupid mouth..
He was also a CHILD PREDATOR, this man doesn’t deserve a single drop of respect. May I also add that his ‘friend’ WAS A LITTLE GIRL and was a GROWN MAN A GROWN MAN
edit: I’ll also add onto that, he was going to propose to 11 year old Alice but her family cut all connections. So if that’s someone you look up to then I’ll just leave you to it but don’t talk to me at all.
They have discovered pictures he'd taken of Alice, and they are very disturbing.
they they they who the fuck are they? and by the way, no "photographs" have been "discovered" you a moron or just need clinical help?
@@SMewett
Lewis.C._. And charles dodgson die on same day._.._.._. Like._._._.. C.Lewis and aldous huxley died on same day._._._. One writes about the queen of hearts ._.._.._ one writes about the king of hearts._._._._. Both rulers of hearts are killed by girls ._._. Fantasy merges with reality.._jfk is based on perceptions of alice in wonderland by a master of perceptions aldous huxley.._