Humpty Dumpty in Lewis Carroll's 'Through the Looking Glass'

Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1, University of Kassel, course: Lewis Carrolls Alice-Books, language: English, abstract: I guess, nearly everybody knows about Alice's Adventures in Wonderland from their childhood experiences. This book, andThrough the Looking Glass,were written by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson who is better known by his pen-name Lewis Carroll. His main contribution is to be found in children's literature. In my following work I will concentrate on the scene between Alice and Humpty Dumpty. Because Humpty Dumpty is very well known especially by british children, he is one of the main characters in the bookThrough the Looking Glass.Many children are able to tell the little nursery rhyme about him, which goes: 'Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall: Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the King's horses and all the King's men Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty in his Place again.' For this is the chapter which is unique in the linguistic sense, I divided it in several parts to analyze it best. These are the topics of which Alice and Humpty speak.