In Frank Beddors, “The Looking Glass Wars” a lot of things happen that are bad. There are lots of good things too. The story is about the “Myth” of Alice Liddell stepping through a looking glass into Wonderland. The topic of this essay is the Truth of the story. The purpose of this paper is how Loyal or devoted some people are to white imagination One of the characters that shows his loyalty to the queendom is Hatter Madigan. At the beginning of the story Hatter Madigan jumps into the pool of tears with Alyss to save them from the cat. “Alyss Heart holding tight to Hatter Madigan, plummeted toward the surface of the water below.” This quote represents Hatter jumping into the pool of tears to save Alyss’ life. “Hatter bowed his head. …show more content…
His life’s mission was to protect the queen.” This quote shows that he would devote his life to the protection of the queendom. There are more characters that show they will give their loyalty/life for the queendom and that is what the rest of the essay is about. Another character that shows her loyalty to the queendom or White Imagination is Alyss Heart.
To prove that she is loyal to White imagination here is a quote from the book. “But she had caught it; the crystal cube was safe.” This quote represents Alyss saving the looking glass maze cube from hitting the ground and cracking. If it cracked it would be broken forever, never allowing the queens that come after Alyss to go through the maze. Another example of Alyss’ loyalty would be when she went into the maze to become the warrior queen that she had to become to save the queendom. “Do i kill or...but what’s to be done with her if I don’t? She’ll pose a threat as long as she lives.” In this quote Alyss struggles with how to handle her aunt. She shows loyalty to the queendom by thinking about getting rid of her aunt for the better of the land. She said that she would pose a threat as long as she lives. What that means is that it would be threatening the queendom if she does not kill her. This shows she is pretty loyal to white imagination/queendom. The last character I will speak of today is Genevieve. “Take Alyss and go,” Queen Genevieve said, pointing to the looking glass. “As far away as possible.” This quote represents her loyalty to the queendom by telling Hatter to run away with Alyss for the safety of the next queen of Wonderland. If she was not safe the queendom would not have a queen and there would be no more queendom. “If we are successful against Redd, no
one can say that our success has been without sacrifice.” This quote is relevant to the theme because she sacrificed herself for the future of the queendom. One of the main points of this essay is some of the characters in this book would give or devote their lives to keeping White Imagination safe. Another main point is loyalty both to the land and to each other. The significance of the theme is that at least 5 of the main characters in this book are very loyal to White Imagination and keeping it alive. They try to defend the only thing that could keep White Imagination going, Alyss. In doing this they take big risks to trying to keep White Imagination alive.
In Frank Beddor’s book The Looking Glass Wars it retells the story of Alice in Wonderland and makes it its own new book. In this version, Alyss is the princess of Wonderland, but when her Aunt Redd who was banished from the Queendom attacks Wonderland and makes everything evil Alyss must run away with Hatter Madigan. After she ran away from Wonderland when she was seven she ended up in England. After she made it back from England she returned to Wonderland to fight Redd and her army. In this book Beddor provides many themes throughout the book that mean a lot to the characters and how they act. For example, good conquers all is evident from the actions of Genevieve, Alyss, and Hatter Madigan.
In the beginning of the novel, Alyss is characterized as irresponsible, immature, and silly. On Alyss’s seventh birthday, she is now eligible to become queen. Bibwit tells her, “The position comes with tremendous responsibilities.”, but she doesn’t seem to care. (Beddor 25) Instead, she plays pranks on everyone and does not take her responsibility as queen seriously.
He did it because, “‘She’s destroyed everything,’ Dodge said. Resignation to the past, defiance of the present, hope for the future--Alyss felt them all at once. ‘Not everything,’ she said. Not if she had hope.”(248) She had seen her castle and home in ruins and then she was ready for revenge. She looked to her friends Dodge, Bibwit, Hatter, General Doppelganger, and the Rook. They needed Alyss to get to the Valley of Mushrooms where the caterpillars are and they would get the answer to where the entrance of the Looking Glass Maze is but they are being chased until they finally make it there. The caterpillar said, “‘You seek the Looking Glass Maze, as your mother did before you.’”(284) They continue to search for it getting closer and closer. Neither good or evil prevailed this
Hatter Madigan is one of the characters that takes responsibility. After being told by Queen Genevieve to look after Alyss until she is ready to rule, Hatter Madigan takes the young princess to the Pool of Tears, “Alyss Heart, holding tight to
In The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor, the story of alice in wonderland is modified and changed to where Alyss is the Princess of Wonderland, who is forced to leave wonderland when her evil Aunt Redd takes over and kills alyss’ parents. When hatter madigan and alyss are separated in the pool of tears, Alyss ends up alone in England. Eventually returning to take back her throne. When changing the story he developed new themes like how Dodge, Jack of Diamonds, and Alyss can not stay children forever.
...ns from the Pit of Despair, stands up to Humperdinck and prevents Buttercup from taking her own life.
At the beginning of the book after redd’s attack hatter and alyss jump into the pool of tears. In the pool of tears the two get separated and hatter comes out in paris while alyss comes out in England. Hatter Madigan decides to vow his life to finding alyss “He was closer to finding alyss that he had ever come before” Once hatter has finally tracked alyss down to england he gets shot trying to save her and is forced to return to wonderland through a mystic puddle. He emerges through the pool of tears,m finds the alyssians, and get patched up. Once he is tended to by the nurses he announces the Alyss Heart is “old enough to return and claim her rightful place as queen… and I’m going back to get her’” (188). This action shows that even though he is wounded exhausted and weak he will still look for alyss and not give up.
In the beginning of the novel, Alyss is characterized as stubborn, clueless, and she has the typical seven year old attitude. Alyss is very headstrong, “I won’t need any lessons,” Alyss said “I’ll just imagine that I know everything and then I will, so you won’t have to give them to me“ (Beddor 26). Instead of listening to other people who are trying to help her, she is trying to be independent. She thinks she can be independent and does not need anyone else’s help, but she is too young to know everything and not need help. Alyss is also oblivious, she has no idea what a lot of things mean, “Where did you come from?” (Beddor 34). In this scene, Alyss is talking to the kitten that conjured at her feet. She is unobservant and does not think about how situations could be bad or dangerous. Alyss is also sassy and she has her ways
Presented with many obstacles and complications to overcome, we know that Hermia is the protagonist in the play. She has relations with almost all the characters in the play. The first and most important relationship is her love, Lysander. From the very beginning we see that Hermia loves Lysander with all her heart and soul and he loved her the same. The only tragic flaw in their relationship was when Puck put the magic juice in Lysander's eyes and he fell in love with Helena. Hermia felt sad and rejected when that happened. But when Puck finally realized that he had made a mistake and corrected it, Hermia and Lysander were in their heavenly bliss of love once again.
With a sweep on a hand, the miniature replicas launched themselves into the vulnerable spots of every single card soldier, each of them folded, no longer a menace.” (Beddor 173). Alyss has just gotten out of the maze and as her first duty she stops the enemy from harming the Alyssians. When Beddor describes alyss banging her scepter on the floor it is as if alyss has reach her full potential. Alyss might be describe as powerful but with power comes grave responsibility. ‘“Our objective is to remove Redd from power” Alyss said loud enough for Dodge to hear. Our objective is the heart crystal, not vengeance”’ After Alyss has came out of the maze. She realizes that vengeances isn’t the way and she tries to warn Dodge. When Alyss says.“... heart crystal, not vengeance” she is say to dodge to let him that know that if you let vengeances run your life, than you are no different from the cat. Even though she is characterized to be Powerful and responsible it takes a great ordeal of bravery to stand up to her aunt and do what she thought was right. Beddor writes “I’ve finished running from you, Redd. It’s time for you to run” Alyss has becomes aware of the fact that she does have
Vallone, Lynne. Notes. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. By Lewis Carroll. New York: The Modern Library Classics, 2002.245-252. Print.
One such approach is that of Lydia Murdoch, who argues that Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a story about children becoming adults and the hardships they face when exploring the real world. In her article entitled “Alice and the Question of Victorian Childhood,” Murdoch uses the shifting role of children during the Victorian Era to suggest that Alice’s attitudes and behaviors, especially during the events towards the beginning of the book, are meant
SparkNotes Editors. “SparkNote on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” SparkNotes.com. SparkNotes LLC. 2005. Web. 30 Oct. 2013.
In the opening scene, Alice desires something beyond orthodox. This is showed by her lack of interest in her studies and longing for a world in which everything would be “nonsense.” She is a curious child. Deborah Ross argues that Alice expresses the usual idealistic desires: “to escape boredom (with lessons), to satisfy curiosity (about the white rabbit), and above all, to exert power” (Ross 57). However Alice does not know exerting power is difficult when the world is consumed of “nonsense”. Thus she has different qualities that contributes to her vague identity. She believes life would be different in her world. Also Disney strives to reveal Alice’s incentive of Wonderland by introducing pictorial wonders such as singing flowers and surrealistic insect, making it seem as a dream. The movie progresses in the same route as Lewis Carroll’s book by focusing on her immature thinking of Wonderland.
With many speculations as to what the story is about, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a tale that still entices readers. Written in 1865, Charles Dodgson created a tale under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. Within that tale Carroll inevitably created a character of ambition within the little girl, Alice. From the beginning of the tale, she is displayed as being adventurous, leaving her sister’s side to follow a white rabbit down a mysterious hole; complacent until she finds herself in a predicament. New ideas about the story revolve mainly around drugs, speaking as if it were some psychedelic LSD trip. Another theory also led to the belief that its’ author was nothing more than a pedophilic gentleman who had too close of a relationship with