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How Alice Liddell Inspired Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

This analytical essay examines the influence of real-life relationships on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The student explores how Lewis Carroll incorporated his own desires and ideas regarding childhood, significantly making Alice an active agent against logic and hierarchy. The student argues that Alice Liddell specifically and children more generally inspired these themes.
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Bridget's feedback:

"This is a perceptive literary analysis that makes good points about how character, theme, and context come together in a piece of writing. Your work with the historical and cultural milieu creates a good foundation, and the discussion is insightful on topics of absurdity/commonsense, Victorian childhood, and dreams. Reference to the "real" Alice, however, is shaky for a few reasons, the first of which is the misspelling of her last name (Liddell), which can trouble ethos. At other moments in the essay, you more generally refer to Carroll's "young friends," and I recommend maintaining that more general approach except for claims about Liddell that you can back with a source immediately (a parenthetical citation will suffice). I think this will ultimately be a matter of revising the language itself in those local moments; for example, you write, "Although Alice [Liddell]..., Lewis chose to make her...", which blurs the lines between the real-life Alice and the character (Alice, her). (I also recommend clarifying at the end of the introduction which Alice you are referring to in "...presented Alice in a unique way.")

More broadly, fairly frequent minor errors impact clarity, including in some sentences that present claims (as discussed above). A careful proofread should be used to ensure your ideas and argumentation come through precisely to avoid misunderstanding, particularly in occasionally contentious subjects."

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