... book she is described as being very ugly with a sharp chin. In Martin Gardener's footnotes to the annotated edition of Alice, he suggests that she was based upon a real fourteenth-century duchess named Margaretha Maltausch, known as "the ugliest woman in history". Also, in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Charles made some what of a mockery of simple day to day items. The Mock Turtle is a made-up ... animal based upon a pun. In Charles Dodgson's day, turtle soup was considered a great delicacy, but was very expensive. As a result, many people ... them a story; he obliges, composing one...

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• Grade Level: High School

... other writers and decided to write the novel with an abundant amount of satires (Stanley 30). The work of Lewis Carroll in the novel, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, depicts the usage of drugs and phallic symbols and creates an absurd amount of confusion in a child's life, thus such a book should be solely for the enjoyment and entertainment of adults. Through out the duration of the ... allows a reader to come of agreeing, "she [the queen] is an alarming creation, ugly, sadistic, aggressive, and ridiculously moralistic" (Howes 120). The third and final theme to the novel, Alice's Adv...

• Word Count: 1375
• Approx Pages: 6
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate