Character Analysis

Alice is a child who was raised in a wealthy household and is interested in good manners. Alice treats others with kindness and courtesy, as shown in her various encounters with the creatures. She has an active imagination but to fix everything in the world around her. Alice fights to understand the awesome dream world that has sprung from her own imagination; Alice becomes more mature in the book. It transforms into a game of chess, in which her growth into womanhood becomes an adventure to become a queen.

Red Queen is overbearing, overly obsessive about manners, and self-righteous. Like the majority of the characters in Through the Looking-Glass, the Red Queen makes statements with little regard for logic that would support them. Her comments are mostly basic behavioral advice, such as, “Speak when you’re spoken to!” When Alice reveals that most of her comments don’t make any sense the Red Queen just reminds Alice of her authority. She fits into the framework of Alice’s dream as a strict authority.

White Knight jumps in at a moment of crisis to rescue Alice from the hands of the Red Knight, before he helpfully escorts her to the point at which she no longer needs protection and can claim her new title of queen. As he guides her, he is calling attention to the idea of Alice’s transformation into a queen as a metaphor for her maturation into womanhood. The White Knight represents a figure from her childhood who can bring her to the point at which she reaches adulthood before he must let go.

Quotations
Alice: “Thank you very much.” Alice said. “May I help you off with your helmet?”
This shows how well-mannered Alice is. This is after the frightening Red Knight had kidnapped her. The White Knight came to help her and he defeated the red knight. With much politeness Alice thanks him.

Red Queen: “It’s time for you to speak now.” The Queen said as she looked her watch. “Open your mouth much wider when you speak and always say ‘your Majesty’.”
Since the Queen’s logic is completely messed up it is hard to explain this because she thinks that Alice can only speak at certain “times.” Anything else she says are based on behavioral advice.

White Knight: “I see you’re admiring my little box.” The Knight said in a friendly voice. “It’s my own invention- to keep clothes and sandwiches in. You see I carry it upside-down, so that the rain doesn’t get in.”
You see his heart is in the right place but like most characters of this book- they don’t make any sense. How can you keep a open box upside and expect things to say in? Well the characters of his book might think otherwise.