The Looking Glass Wars Essay
Alyss has changed and transformed throughout this novel. Alyss was introduced as a mischievous little girl playing pranks. Throughout the novel she learns how to become a strong proper young lady. Alyss went through many obstacles to prepare her for battle. In The Looking Glass Wars, Frank Beddor uses conflict to transform a naive, mischievous, and endearing little girl into a confident, leading, and boss so she can save the queendom from Redd’s rule. In the beginning of the novel, Princess Alyss is characterized as mischievous, endearing, and naive. Alyss loves to play pranks such as “dropping jelly jellies from an open window and watching them splat on the guards below (Beddor 11). Instead of behaving like
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Alyss concludes, “This marriage would please her mother, for her family’s sake” (Beddor 171). Alyss acts as a people pleaser when she accepts Leopold’s proposal. She doesn’t love Leopold, but accepts his proposal only to make her mother happy. Alyss has decided to no longer stand out and become like “every women” (Beddor 191). Alyss desires to conform and submit to ideas of society. She becomes normal and no longer stands out like odd Alyss. Mrs. Liddell exclaims “ The dress she had purchased months before, but which Alyss had always refused to wear it because she feared it would make her look normal”, Alyss now wears it ( Beddor 151). Alyss starts to dress like everyone in England. She no longer looks like a former Wonderlander, but becomes by all appearances a proper young …show more content…
Alyss lead her army by “led Homburg Molly, Hatter Maddigan, and the chessmen through the forest” (Beddor 333). That proves Alyss is leading her soldiers. She is affecting others and how they go to battle. She has never had to be a leader, but she is taking over by “Meet us at the Heart Crystal. Look for Spiral Hall” (Beddor 331). Alyss was giving commands. Alyss is becoming a boss. Alyss was scared of Redd or what she might do , but not anymore “I’ve finished running from you, Redd. It’s time for you to run” (Beddor 318) . Alyss is standing up to Redd. Alyss is confident in fighting Redd. Although Alyss has gone through a lot, she comes back to take back
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.
Throughout the book Alyce proves to be a very empathetic and caring young girl. One of the times Alyce shows her empathy, the Midwife was trying to help a woman give birth, but the lady was having some trouble and Jane tried so much that in the end she just gave up to go help someone else she knew would pay her more, deciding to abandon the woman who was in need of help. Alyce decided that it wasn’t fair, and that a lady shouldn’t be left like that when she needed help, “The memory of the proud, frightened, Joan of a moment ago kept her there. And she asked herself, What would the midwife so if she were here? … Alyce took a deep breath and returned to Joan’s side” (59), so she decided to help Joan even though the midwife was too selfish to do so. Alyce also respects the people who don’t respect her, so when the village boys that had recently stopped teasing her were doing something that would have definitely gotten them in trouble if the midwife had seen them, she knew they’d have been in trouble so she went up to the midwife and talked to her to hold her off so the boys could get away. Alyce likes helping people that need help when no one else will help them, for example when she’s found a job at an inn after she’s given up her career as a midwife’s apprentice and a few people ride to the inn asking for help because they claim the lord’s wife is being eaten by a stomach worm but Alyce immediately realizes the lady is pregnant and decides to help her even though she’s a bit uncertain at first because of her recent failure.
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.
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.
Over the course of the play, Albus completes the archetypal hero cycle. His call to action comes in the form of a plea for help from a stranger. Delphi asks indirectly asks Albus to bring her cousin back from the dead by changing the course of time. Once he hears this, Albus is set into action, advancing to the next step. He gains a follower by recruiting his best, and only, friend, Scorpius, who reluctantly agrees to tag along. Once, Albus and Scorpius make their plan, they cross the threshold by exiting through a train window and immediately face their first task. The trolley lady confronts them on the roof of the train and transforms into a sort of monster. Once they get past her, Albus and his companion face many other tasks ranging from a fight with a bookcase to attempting to change one aspect of the past without destroying the world as they know it. Eventually, after the tests have all been tackled and mostly go wrong in some way, they discover that Delphi has been deceiving them all along and is actually evil. Upon this realization, the two teens get their parents and other adults involved through another test, and prepare for the epic battle, going back to the day when Harry’s parents were killed. They wait for Delphi to appear and once she does, she gains the upper hand over the adults.
It is commonly believed that the only way to overcome difficult situations is by taking initiative in making a positive change, although this is not always the case. The theme of the memoir the Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is that the changes made in children’s lives when living under desperate circumstances do not always yield positive results. In the book, Jeannette desperately tries to improve her life and her family’s life as a child, but she is unable to do so despite her best efforts. This theme is portrayed through three significant literary devices in the book: irony, symbolism and allusion.
Cloris forms a hyper-masculine, godlike image of Lysander which places an immense pressure on him to live up to her expectations. Although she is simply in accordance with the ideals of men that have previously been formulated by others, her compliance with such images only creates unrealistic expectations that will likely end in disappointment. The narrator states of Cloris’ discovery, “Finding that god of her desires disarmed of all his awful fires,” (112-113) which dramatizes Lysander’s downfall. The once fearsome thing is now characterized as, “cold as flowers bathed in the morning dew,” (114) becoming an altogether feminine portrait of something that is intended to be idealized as the epitome of manliness. His premature ejaculation is the ultimate sign of his descent into a non-masculine figure and a disappointment on both ends. Both Cloris and Lysander are similarly chastised only by society’s expectations, Cloris being a woman with lust and Lysander a man without his erection, and are unable to experience guiltless or unpressured pleasure,
Infatuation causes Helena to lose all sense of dignity, as can be seen when in the woods, she desperately pleads with Demetrius to ?but treat me as your spaniel?. Here, Helena also becomes irrational, obsessed with pursuing Demetrius, though it is obvious that Demetrius is fixated on winning Hermia?s hand in marriage. Helena?s infatuation also causes her to see things from a skewed perspective, for she falsely believes that when she divulges Hermia?s plans for eloping with Lysander, Demetrius? love for Helena will rekindle. As the audience, we know that the most probable course of action for Demetrius upon hearing such news is to pursue Lysander and Hermia, or to report them to Theseus or Egeus. Clearly, infatuation has clouded Helena?s ability to think clearly, and she sees things in her own idealistic way.
The relationship between Demetrius and Hermia is problematic, in that Demetrius is seeking the affections of Hermia, while she is in love with Lysander. However, Hermia’s father approves of Demetrius and tries to force her to marry him, but Hermia refuses because of her love for Lysander (A Midsummer Night’s Dream 1.1.22-82). Lysander points out the flaw in the situation through this comment, “You have her father 's love, Demetrius –/Let me have Hermia 's. Do you marry him,” (A Midsummer Night’s Dream 1.1.93-94). The second flawed relationship is between Lysander and Helena, as a result of an enchantment put on Lysander that made him fall in love with Helena. Helena does not want the affections of Lysander, but rather the love of Demetrius, and believes that Lysander is taunting her. In addition, this relationship creates tensions because Hermia is in love with Lysander (A Midsummer Night’s Dream 2.2.109-140). Both relationships are not desirable due to a lack of mutual admiration and the creation of non-peaceful and unsatisfying
What is the source of your success? My own definition of success is about overcoming my obstacles and hardships. If I can’t overcome the obstacles and hardships along the way, then I will try again so that I am more prepared and have the right knowledge. I want to meet obstacles and hardships because I want to feel the pleasure of success when I overcome them. In order for me to overcome and embrace hardships, I need to find the missing link, have the right knowledge, and practice effective time management.
Upon entering the middle of the town Arayneyin noticed Amberis, her main tormentor. Arayneyin tried to swift by with no attention drawn to her, but she failed miserably. Amberis quickly saw Arayneyin swiftly walking to the capital building. Amberis walked over to Arayneyin. “Hey, White Bi*ch!” she hollered straight into her ear. Arayneyin acted as she didn’t hear her. “Look at me when I’m talking to you sl*t” Amberis said as she pushed Arayneyin to the ground, dirting her porcelain white clothes. “OH, did I ruin your skimpy little corset?” she said with a sarcastic, rude tone. “Let me help you with that” She grabbed and tore at Arayneyin’s corset ribbons like Cinderella's step sisters. This enraged Arayneyin. All the torment of past years built up in her and she did something she never thought she would do. Arayneyin rose up into the air and and a green ura surrounded her. She used her telekinetic powers to pick up Amberis and slam her, multiple times into the ground. She then tossed her into the capital building, breaking the window as she flew in. She laid her on the ground and picked up the broken glass . They spun wildly around her. She then struck every single shard into Ambris’ body. Arayneyin calmed down as she came down. She walked over to Amberis’ body. Arayneyin scanned her body, teeth missing, bloody
When Lysander awakens, the first person he sees in Helena and he falls madly in love with her despite his love for Hermia and Helena believes that Lysander is merely putting on an act to mock her for her undying love for Demetrius. Puck realizes what he has done and tries do undo his mistake that night, but instead makes both Demetrius and Lysander falling madly in love with Helena.
In the first part of the play Egeus has asked the Duke of Athens, Theseus, to rule in favor of his parental rights to have his daughter Hermia marry the suitor he has chosen, Demetrius, or for her to be punished. Lysander, who is desperately in love with Hermia, pleads with Egeus and Theseus for the maiden’s hand, but Theseus’, who obviously believes that women do not have a choice in the matter of their own marriage, sides with Egeus, and tells Hermia she must either consent to marrying Demetrius, be killed, or enter a nunnery. In order to escape from the tragic dilemma facing Hermia, Lysander devises a plan for him and his love to meet the next evening and run-off to Lysander’s aunt’s home and be wed, and Hermia agrees to the plan. It is at this point in the story that the plot becomes intriguing, as the reader becomes somewhat emotionally “attached’’ to the young lovers and sympathetic of their plight. However, when the couple enters the forest, en route to Lysander’s aunt’s, it is other mischievous characters that take the story into a whole new realm of humorous entertainment...
...ngagement, their re-engagement. Cecily is not the natural country girl. She possesses the self-assurance of the experienced woman. Without being cynical she makes her desires clear. And when Gwendolen and Cecily discover that their Earnests are impostors whose names are Jack and Algernon they decide that love can be restored only if Jack and Algy christen themselves Earnest.
Lykos is like a wolf in a sense that she is unpredictable, she bares her fangs easily, she has no emotions at the start of the story, but as the story progresses, she progressively becomes more and more open to talk about her feelings and becomes more and more closer with the other characters.