Friday, July 6, 2007

Characters:
  • Charles Dodgson: lecturer in mathematics at Christ Church College, Oxford. Avid amateur photographer, with a focus on portraits. Loved language and words. Fairly quiet man, raised in a large family, with a number of siblings whom he would write little books and magazines for, and make up puzzles for them to solve. Did not travel much, never married. Had relationships with children, often little girls, but there is no evidence that he was a pedophile. He also had relationships with people his own age, both men and woman, and sometimes with married woman.
  • Alice Liddell: somewhat of an old soul, dark hair, bright eyes, an imagination that never stops. Youngest Loves to be outside, loves stories. Shy around people she does not know. Passionate about life, doesn't like rules/strictures, or boring stories (which is why she likes Mr. Dodgson, he tells good ones!). To her: "Wonderland is so much better than here!" (Almost Wonderland, Scene 4).
  • Dean Liddell: family man, Dean of Christ Church College, Oxford. Loves his wife and children. Victorian gentleman, protector. Does not want to lose Alice.
  • Lorina Liddell: Eldest, apple of her mother's eye. Victorian through and through, especially more as she grows up. Nickname: Ina. Once maybe believed in Wonderland. She also plays the Mad Hatter, why is a raven like a writing desk, in Scene 3.)
  • Edith Liddell: Middle child, caught betwen Lorina and Alice in more than one way. Caught between following rules and being proper and joining Alice in her world, which truly does seem a lot more fun. She also plays the March Hare in Scene 3).
  • White Rabbit, is what he sounds like. Lives in the Deanery Garden.
  • Cheshire Cat..."I've seen a cat without a grin, but never a grin without a cat." (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland).

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