The flowers claim that the Willow tree in the center of the garden protects them from danger, and this starts the daisies into a manic frenzy of high-pitched speech. She comes upon a large flower bed where she is surprised that the flowers possess speech. However, she keeps returning to the front of the house and becomes a little frustrated. Deciding to observe the entire house, she floats down the stairs.Īlice wants to see the garden, and decides the best view is by the hill. The chess pieces come to life but they cannot see or hear Alice, (notably when she picks the White King up to dust him off he's absolutely horrified and believes it was a volcano.) She finds the Jabberwocky poetry book on the table in the room and reads it only when she holds it up to the Looking glass as it is all backwards. Alice continues to speak about a number of bizarre things and when she climbs onto the chimney-piece and travels through the looking glass. While Dinah washes her kitten Snowdrop, Alice lectures Dinah's other kitten, Kitty about manners after unrolling a ball of twine and tries to have her pretend she is the Red Queen. 1.7 Chapter 7: The Lion and the Unicorn.1.4 Chapter 4: Tweedledum and Tweedledee.The beginning of the first Alice game follows on shortly after Through the Looking-Glass. In it, there are many mirror themes, including opposites and time running backwards.īoth Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass service as the origin of material for the video games American McGee's Alice and Alice: Madness Returns, and act as sequels to the novels. The themes and settings of Through the Looking-Glass make it a kind of mirror image to the first Alice title: the first book begins outdoors, in the warm month of May, uses frequent changes in size as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of playing cards the second begins in a snowy, wintry night in November, uses frequent changes in time and spatial directions as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of chess. Both novels were written by Charles Dodgson, published under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, and both the first editions were illustrated by John Tenniel. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There is a 1871 fictional fantasy novel and the sequel to the 1865 title Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
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