The Appearance of Archtypes in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass

The main points of this thesis are:

There are over 200 scholarly works on Lewis Carroll.

The thesis approaches his work from a psychological perspective. It talks about Carl Jung.

Archetypes in the work include water, the quest (Alice's journey along the chessboard) and the trickster. (Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Another is the wise old man (Humpty Dumpty.)

The meaning of words is an important aspect of Humpty Dumpty's conversation with Alice.

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