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Art is the outward expression of an artist's personal experiences. These experiences are the influences that become the subject of the artist's creation, whether it be a painting, a sculpture, or a novel. The works of Lewis Carroll were greatly influenced by hi ....

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.... aspects of his writings are the product of a quest to cast away the constraints of ordinary logic (46). Nevertheless, his obligation towards the science of logic did influence his novels. Heath explains this by pointing out that his works are not actually nonsense, but rather absurdity. He defines the two as being at the opposite ends of a spectrum with nonsense on one end, logic in the middle, and absurdity on the other end. Nonsense completely defies and casts away all rules of logic, whereas absurdity overuses them to the point of confusion (47). An example of this absurdity can be found in Chapter 7 of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, cal ....