Looking Glass Wars

In The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor the story of Alice in Wonderland is told from the opposite viewpoint. In this story Alyss Heart is the princess of Wonderland, and not a little girl from London. Alyss is forced to leave her homeland when both of her parents are killed by her evil Aunt Redd. When Alyss finds herself alone in England and must find her way back to Wonderland to defeat her evil Aunt. By switching storylines, Beddor shows significant themes that are developed throughout the story. For example, the theme violence or vengeance is show at times such as Redd and Genevieve, Dodge , and when Alyss faces her evil Aunt Redd.

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.

“Thinking it the final in her short, troubled life, Princess Alyss Heart knelt down before her Aunt,” the narrator reads (Beddor 314). Alyss shows confidence when she sacrifices herself to her aunt, so her friends can live. Due to Alyss’s ultimate sacrifice she completes the Looking Glass Maze and is a step closer to her throne. So as the reader can see Alyss uses her imagination and confidence to complete the Looking Glass Maze and reclaim herself as Alyss Heart of Wonderland.

Alyss when she was young loved her home in Wonderland but had to grow up in a whole other world. She would always think her imagination would get the best of her but that fantasy never left as she grew and became who she really was. In The Looking Glass Wars, Frank Beddor uses conflict to transform Alyss from a mischievous, endearing, and naive girl to a fond of, praised, and comfortable young woman so that she can defeat Redd and take back the Heart Queendom.

The Looking Glass Wars wrote by Frank Beddor is a rewritten version of Alice in Wonderland where Alyss, the princess of Wonderland, is forced to leave her beloved home because of her Aunt Redd that has overpowered the Queendom. Alyss finds herself all alone in an unknown place that does not believe in Wonderland. She returns to Wonderland to fight Redd for the Queendom. This rewrite of Alice in Wonderland really shows the battles of Good vs. Evil with the death of King Nolan, the overthrow of the Queendom ruled by Queen Genevieve, and the final fight for the queendom.

A caterpillar that smokes from pipes and eats tarty-tarts is only the beginning of Frank Beddor’s first book in his trilogy The Looking Glass Wars. Many of us are familiar with the infamous fairy tale of Alice who stumbles upon a hole that leads her to Wonderland and meets strange characters like the Cheshire Cat and others. Now there are many differences in Beddor’s tale; not only is the Cat an assassin with nine lives but Alice-the character we grew up knowing-has a different name, Alyss Heart. She is a young girl whose kingdom of Wonderland is taken over by her blood thirsty and cruel Aunt Redd, who is truly the incarnation of evil. This book is one with many

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.

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 Frank Beddor´s The Looking Glass Wars he tells an out of the ordinary story of Alice in

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 Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor, the original tale of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is flipped from total nonsense to a new telling with Alyss as the princess of Wonderland. In Beddor’s version, Alyss is taken away from Wonderland for her protection by the orders of her mother Queen Genevieve as Alyss’s evil aunt, Redd attacks the palace to claim the throne. As Alyss is being transported out of Wonderland along with the leader of the millinery, Hatter Madigan, they are separated with Alyss being in London and Hatter in Paris. Hatter must cross oceans and climb mountains to find the lost princess and return her to Wonderland to defeat her evil aunt Redd and take back the throne of Wonderland that was rightfully her’s. Thanks to

“Dreams feel real while we’re in them. It’s only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange. -Inception” (50 Dream Quotes). Carroll writes Through the Looking Glass based off of the dream concept. This novel is strange compared to most because of the dream Alice has. In the beginning, Alice is playing with her kittens. As she drifts off to sleep, Alice goes through the mirror and enters Looking Glass World. While there, Alice joins a chess game as a pawn. She continues across the board and meets all sorts of characters who help Alice in her journey to become Queen. She meets the Red Queen, White Queen, Humpty Dumpty, and White Knight in different squares throughout the game. When she reaches the honor of Queen, Alice is

The Victorian Era was a time where not many ethical ideals and moral standards were sustained. Yet, it is also an Era in which modern society uses to make advancements in both humanity, and philosophy. Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland, was a novelist who wrote pass his time. He wrote further in the future of the "common" Victorian Era. The ideology he presents in Alice in Wonderland is conducive to an individual attempting to bring attention to the deteriorating mental health and humane conditions in Victorian-Era England. Alice is representative of a normal child in everyday-Victorian England. This child, Alice, has not been exposed to the likes of diversity, but instead solidarity. The type of solidarity that is all too prevalent throughout the Victorian Era, primarily in the upbringing of children during this time. Children in Victorian Era England were taught to be followers of the norms already established by adults, and to ask no questions. These types of parameters placed restraints on children growing-up during this time; not only physical restraints, but also mental restraints, such as their imaginations'. Carroll was no stranger to this ideal or the likes of this concept; In fact, he constructed Alice in The Wonderland with this in mind, to defy the imaginative 'norm' of Victorian-Era England. He created a character that dreamt of falling down a rabbit hole into another universe. This dream or imagination becomes so vivid in his novel that the

'Alice in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll seems a first a simple fairy tale, but in fact its meaning is a lot more profound. This novel criticizes the way children were brought up during the Victorian era. Carroll presents the readers with the complications these offspring must endure in order to develop their own personalities/egos, as they become adults. For Alice, Wonderland appears to be the perfect place to start this learning adventure. A way to understand her story is by compering it to the world as if being upside-down. Nothing in Wonderland seems to be they way it’s supposed to. The first lesson, Alice must learn in this peculiar journey through Wonderland is to achieve separation from the world around her and to stop identifying herself through others, in order to discover who she

Alice in Wonderland by Charles L Dodgeson (Lewis Carrol) is a classic masterpiece and example of great literature. Many people know of this book as merely a child’s tale or a Disney movie. As both were adopted from the book, many of the ideas were not. I have my own feelings and opinions of this book. Remarkable use of words and an originally creative theme and plot structure are both used in this book. The author of this novel used many hidden meanings, symbolism, and ambiguous terms to greatly describe the actual nature of the story. Many people have different views as to the type of book it is and the novel’s actual meaning. Although this book inspires many people to laugh, it also inspires them think.