At the mention of the name Alice, one tends to usually think of the children’s stories by Lewis Carroll. Namely, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass are two classic works of children’s literature that for over a century have been read by children and adults alike. These two stories tell the tale of a young girl named Alice who finds herself in peculiar surroundings, where she encounters many different and unusual characters. Although Alice is at the centre of both stories, each tale is uniquely different in its purpose, characters and style.
Carroll first published Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in 1865, three years after he had first told the story to the young girl Alice Liddell and her sisters,
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Both of these stories are structured differently in the manner in which Carroll had written them. For Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, there is no direction to the story and one could almost place the chapters in any sequence and the story would still make sense. However, the opposite is true for Through the Looking Glass as Carroll clearly indicated at the beginning with the introduction of the chess game. This image of a chess board is fundamental to understanding the story in Through the Looking Glass and portrays a sense of logic and order to the reader. Throughout the story, the reader has a clear sense of direction as to where the story will go next and each chapter follows in sequence. Alice’s journey in the second story is to go from being a pawn to that of a Queen.
Carroll’s use of the chess board is also important in Alice’s transition to adulthood. Her journey across the chess board from being a pawn to reaching the status of Queen represents the growth of being a child to becoming an adult. This emphasis is conveyed primarily in Through the Looking Glass and Carroll conveys this through the encounters that Alice has with the various characters, mainly the Queens and the Kings. The Queen always seems one step ahead of Alice, similar to what a child feels in an “adult” world. Carroll continues to express the tyranny of adulthood through Alice’s encounters and journey. She soon learns that becoming a Queen was not all
By Frank Beddor’s The Looking Glass Wars, he retells the story of Alice in Wonderland by putting it in the perspective of Alyss as the princess of Wonderland, when she is forced to flee Wonderland when her Aunt Redd (Queen Genevieve’s sister) comes to retake her throne. Alyss ends up in Victorian London and is separated from her keeper Hatter Madigan. Beddor changes the story to provide good significance and inspiring themes to give good imagery throughout the story. For example, in the story Queen Genevieve, Hatter, and Alyss forget their own survival to sacrifice themselves for the good of others.
In 1862, floating upon the river Isis, Charles Dodgson narrated for Alice Liddell and a few others in company his original tale of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Gliding along underneath the blue sky, Dodgson wove his words into one of the most classic children stories of all time. Thesis: Although Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland may have only begun as a children’s story, many adults have sought to discover the “true meaning” of the novel. Curiosity has led to years of searching and interpretation of the origins of Carroll’s novels, and the symbols inside, developing into theories ranging from practical to nearly impossible, eventually evolving into their own stories in the film industry.
In the story, The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor, the author writes a spin on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. The story begins with Princess Alyss Hart whose life is turned upside down when her Aunt Redd takes over the queendom forcing Alyss into hiding.Eventually Alyss returns home, claims her throne and restores peace to the queendom.Beddor puts a new spin on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with a variety of themes like,determination.This is shown throughout the book by many different characters like Alyss,Hatter,and Queen Genevieve.
In The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor, the story of Alice in Wonderland is retold, but with a twist. Instead of Alice going to Wonderland because she wants to live in a different place, Alice (Alyss) lives in Wonderland, and the book was written about her life. Alyss experiences many obstacles in her journey to the real world. She ends up in England where she is then convinced that Wonderland isn’t real and that it was all just her imagination. However, to her surprise, she ends up back in Wonderland and back in the same troubles in which she left behind. By changing the plot of the story, the themes of the original story have been tweaked. One of the major themes in this book is love and sacrifice. This theme is shown mainly through three
The classic story of Alice in Wonderland was given it’s own twist in Frank Beddor’s The Looking Glass Wars . The story centers around Princess Alyss Heart of Wonderland, and how she escapes her Aunt Redd and finds refuge in London. She soon returns the defeat her Aunt and reclaim her throne. The Looking Glass Wars is filled with many themes that progress throughout the story.
Alice and Wonderland is a classic tale of a whimsical fantasy of a girl who falls down a rabbit hole into another dimension or so many people thought. In Frank Beddor’s Through the Looking Glass tells the story of Alice and Wonderland with a completely different take. In this version Alyss is a free spirited princess whose mother (Queen Genevieve) rules over wonderland with help from her husband, King Nolan. After the queendom is taken over by the queen's evil older sister Redd everything goes from light to dark.
In The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor,The story from Alice and Wonderland is revisited, making changes such as Alice being the princess of wonderland, and the Mad Hatter is a royal guard for Wonderlands “Millinary”. Alice, or Alyss, has to escape Wonderland because her evil Aunt Redd has taken over the kingdom over and needs to kill her. She end up escaping to England, where she grows up denying this ever happened. However, she eventually returns to Wonderland and reclaims her rightful spot as the queen. In this book, the author added some themes to the story line.
In Frank Beddor’s The Looking Glass Wars, the story of Alice in Wonderland is completely transformed. Instead of being a curious girl in London, Alyss is the princess of her family’s queendom in Wonderland. She has been unexpectedly alone for a long time ever since her parents died in a vicious battle with her Aunt Redd and her army. She must now avenge her family by trying to reclaim her throne that Redd took away from her. By Beddor changing the story, it provides a clearer significance and importance for the themes that he brings up at certain parts of the story. For example, tragedy forcing characters to grow up early is evident in Alyss, Dodge, and Molly.
In The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor, the story of Alice in Wonderland is told in a whole new perspective. Beddor tells the tale from the perspective of Alyss, who in this novel is Princess of Wonderland. Her Aunt Redd attacks the queendom and her mother, wanting to be queen. Alyss is forced to escape Wonderland and finds herself trapped in England, but later returns to the queendom to rightfully regain her throne. In Beddor’s new tale, new themes are shown such as not giving up, even when times get rough which is shown in Alyss, Hatter, and Dodge.
These emotional spaces in Lewis Carroll’s Through The Looking Glass and What Alice Found There can be seen through another lens as well. While Alice, the book’s heroine, metaphorically grows into adulthood as she moves her way across the fictional chessboard, the author remains static; Carroll watches wistfully as the emotional space between himself and
In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll uses third-person limited to give the reader an intimate look into the thoughts, feelings, and actions of Alice by way of an anonymous narrator. With this perspective, it is possible to see the changes Alice undergoes during her adventure in Wonderland and her feelings on them. It also adds to the mystique surrounding the motives and intentions of the other characters within the story and adds to the tension created by the nonsensical application of reason.
Issues concerning her size, identity, and her social exchanges with both Wonderland and its creatures spur and characterize Alice’s development towards becoming a young woman.
Alice is running forward, or so she thinks; however, Alice is doing the exact opposite of that. Alice has a main objective in this novel; she must move eight squares in order to become a queen. In Lewis Carroll’s, Through the Looking-Glass, Carroll adds a certain pizazz that most people wonder where it comes from. How does he come up with certain characters? How does he think of something so different like the Jabberwocky poem? Many things contribute to Carroll’s writing: struggling with sleep deprivation, dealing with dual personalities, having an education, growing up with several siblings, and handling abnormal eating habits.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, was a children’s book written by Lewis Carroll. The focus of
Alice’s main objective throughout the story is to become Queen. She slowly moves step by step towards her goal, like a pawn would in chess. Carroll gave each chess piece life in Looking Glass World and empowered them by using them to assist Alice in her quest to become Queen. Carroll symbolizes Alice’s adventure as chess game because he wants to make the point that rules are needed in life, but fun is still important. “Life is just a game, full of arbitrary rules and not nearly as meaningful as we like to pretend” (Games). Alice is criticized by the Red Queen about all the rules she needs to follow, but Alice wants to live in her adventure and have fun with the odd characters. Since she is so young and has only limited knowledge of chess, Alice does not understand the moves being made or the rules of the game. “Alice rubbed her eyes, and looked again. She couldn’t make out what had happened at all” (Carroll 197). Alice is confused when she suddenly makes another move many times throughout the book. Carroll symbolizes turns and twists in Alice’s adventures by these chess moves. Many times, she does not understand what is happening because she is represented as pawn, which would not move like the other