Background
Carroll combines logic games, parody, wordplay, and nonsense verse. The chess structure gives the dream a loose direction, while individual scenes challenge the assumption that confident speech must be sensible.
Reading notes
- Follow Alice’s progress across the chessboard as well as through each conversation.
- Read the poems aloud and notice how sound affects their comic logic.
- When a rule seems contradictory, ask whether the reversal is part of the joke.
Version note
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