How and why does Lewis Carrol set the events in the novel Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There around a strategy game such as chess?

摘要

This extended essay analysis the reasons and ways Lewis Carrol used chess, in order to describe the events of growing up and nonsense in Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There more effectively. It includes the explanations of the chess moves in the novel, similar characteristics of the figures with chess pieces, the similarities of the landscape with a chess board with references to this piece of literature and many quotations for further understanding and explanation. Also the theme of growing up and other references of chess in the novel are explained with examples. Growing up is also examined with the theme of chess, as well as chess being a metaphor to life and faith. Furthermore, the relationship of Lewis Carrol with math is briefly explained and many other references of math are explored. The purpose of this study is to understand Lewis Carrol in using chess and explore how the storyline is built around a chess game.udIn the conclusion, it is validated that chess, in the novel, represents life itself with all opportunities and bad calls. Theme of nonsense is depicted in the story to strengthen the references to growing up, by symbolizing the understanding of logic of children, which has no sense within.