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theme and motif's

THEME: lost childhood

MOTIF: teddy bear, calendar, adult/older man. 

words

wonderland
dreams
logic
suspision
puzzles
wordplay
nosence
lost childhood
imagination
victoria era
story telling
insomnia
stammerer
believe the impossible, defy the rules'

'believe the impossible, defy the rules'
gave readers the permission to let their imagination run wild.

he preferred to photograph without their mothers present so they would appear more natural. He also disliked the Victorian practice of dressing children up like small adults, arguing that the natural form of a child was beautiful and did not need to be covered up. He frequently photographed his girls nude, though he made a point of never taking frontal portraits.

He wanted children to find in his stories an outlet for the strict moralizing of the Victorian era. 


lost childhoods all round ?

http://www.victorianchildren.org/victorian-children-in-victorian-times/

http://myfivebest.com/the-dark-side-of-wonderland-the-scandals-of-lewis-carroll/

http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/carroll/dreamchild/dreamchild1.html

marilyn monroe

MARILYN MONROE’S CHILDHOOD INSPIRATION: “I WOULD PRETEND I WAS ALICE IN WONDERLAND…”

"When I was a little girl I would pretend I was Alice in Wonderland, looking into a miror, wondering what I would see. Was that really me? Who was that staring back at me? Could it be someone pretending to be me? I would dance around, make faces, just to see if that little girl in the mirror would do the same.

I suppose every kid’s imagination takes over. The looking glass can be magical, like acting, in a strange way. Especially when you’re pretending to be someone other than yourself. This did happen when I put on my mom’s clothes, tried to fix my hair as she did and powder my face with her big powder puff, and, oh yes, her red rouge and lipstick and eye shadow. I would imagine I was sexy, like the top movie star in those days: Jean Harlow.http://historiful.tumblr.com/post/2552816073

lewis carroll summary

Here is what we know about Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, also known by his pen name, Lewis Carroll. He was a mathematical genius, becoming a member of the Oxford faculty when he was just 24 years old. He loved logic, puzzles and wordplay. He was one of the best amateur photographers of the Victorian era, shooting hundreds of portraits before abruptly dropping the hobby after 24 years. And when he wasn't taking pictures or lecturing about mathematics or inventing yet another cipher, he was writing.

The stories, novels and "nonsense" poems in which Lewis Carroll specialized were originally written to entertain the young daughters of Rev. Henry Liddell, his dean at Oxford University. (Under the name Charles Dodgson, he published things like An Elementary Treatise on Determinants With Their Application to Simultaneous Linear Equations and Algebraical Geometry. Disney hasn't made a movie about that one yet.) His favorite of the Liddell girls was Alice. Alice inspired Carroll's best-known character, a spirited girl of the same name who falls down a rabbit hole and goes on a series of fantastic adventures. Carroll's stories were some of the most imaginative things ever written, and were an important inspiration for fantasy and science fiction today. Carroll was adamant that his stories contain no moral, allegory or otherwise important "message." He wanted children to find in his stories an outlet for the strict moralizing of the Victorian era.

Victorian social mores are key to the complex problem of Carroll's legacy. Lewis Carroll was obsessed with young girls. With their parents' permission, he took photographs of them, sometimes in states of undress (or no dress). He befriended them, playing with them at the seaside and taking them to the opera. Scholars are divided on whether he had pedophilic tendencies, though there's no evidence that he ever committed inappropriate acts with children.

As the King of Hearts might say, we will just begin at the beginning, go on until we reach the end, then stop.