The Looking Glass Wars Analysis
In the book, The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor, the classic story of Alice in Wonderland is flipped on it’s side. In Beddor’s novel, Queen Genivieve of Wonderland’s daughter, Alyss, takes an interesting journey, but in the end, ends up back in Wonderland. When Alyss is young, Redd kills King Nolan, which is the first time evil comes to Wonderland. Soon after that, Redd attacks Heart Palace and Queen Genevieve sends Alyss into the Pool of Tears but Alyss sees Redd kill Genevieve before she is able to escape. Thirteen years later, when Alyss returns to Wonderland, things start to change as good and evil sides begin to battle and Alyss is able to finally beat Redd and good wins over evil. One of the ways this is shown is Queen Redd, who is never afraid of anything, shows slight hints of fear like making sure she gets to the looking glass maze
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before Alyss does so Alyss does not have the chance to become Queen. Another thing Redd does is put more card soldiers defending Mount Isolation, which is where Redd stays, to prevent Alyss from reaching her.
Redd killing King Nolan. Next by killing Queen Genivieve and taking over wonderland. Finally by battling Alyss and losing finally letting Good take over once more.
The first way the book introduced Good vs.
Evil was when Redd killed King Nolan.“At the center of the skirmish, slashing his sword this way and that, was King Nolan, still atop his trusted spirit-dane when a figure in a scarlet cloak passed through the fighting, untouched, and stabbed him through the heart with her pointed scepter.”( p.27) This shows Good vs. Evil because Redd stabbed him to gain a little more power to help her become the Queen and it started the civil war. This also ties this book to Alice in Wonderland because Redd is to this book what the Queen of Hearts is to Alice in Wonderland. “Every Wonderlander over the age of twelve remembered the devastation of the civil war between Redd and Genevieve. They knew why Redd had come.” (p.54) This shows that even though Redd had destroyed everything, there were still people who were old enough to remember the battle. This also the two books together because the Queen of Hearts rules with an iron fist in Alice in Wonderland, dictating what everyone had to do, and in this book, Redd rules with a dictatorship, which is how the Queen of Hearts ruled her
Queendom.
The second way the book showed Good vs. Evil was when Redd killed Genivieve and took over Wonderland.“‘Off with their heads!’ the woman screamed. ‘Off with their stinking, boring heads!’”(p.50) Redd beheaded people to gain even more power. She even beheaded her own sister, Queen Genevieve, to take over her throne, and we find out she killed her own mother. “Abandoning herself to her wrath, she slipped into her mother’s dressing room. ‘Even you cannot take away what is mine by birthright,’ she snarled and placed a deadly pink mushroom on her mother’s tongue. Fed by the queen’s saliva, the roots of the fungus worked their way down the sleeping sovereign’s throat and strangled her heart.”(p.56) Redd killed her own mother, which shows that from a very young age, Redd was violent and would do anything to become Queen.
The last way that the book shows Good vs. Evil is when Alyss returns to Wonderland and battles Redd to take back her home .The scene when Alyss returns to Wonderland to take it back and return it to normal shows how the people of Wonderland are happy to have her return to fight against Redd. “A cheer sounded from outside… Princess Alyss, safe and apparently healthy, surrounded by happy Alyssians, gwynooks, and tuttle-birds…”(p.217) It also shows Alyss that the people have been fighting Redd for her until she was able to return and regain her imagination to fight Redd herself. Alyss headed first for the looking glass maze to get there before Redd. “You seek the Looking Glass Maze, as your mother did before you.’”(p.284) This also shows that Alyss and her mother aren’t that different from each other in what they wanted to do to help Wonderland and keep the evil Redd from being the ruler.
Good vs. Evil is shown throughout this book in three main ways: Redd killing King Nolan, Redd killing her sister Queen Genevieve, and Alyss coming back to Wonderland and reclaiming her throne as Queen. This theme is significant because it goes through the whole book and follows Alyss’s whole life from evil destroying her parents to her coming back to destroy evil. The world is impacted by this theme because we all have struggles between good and evil in our lives. We don’t have to fight major battles like Alyss did in the book, but we have to battle to choose good over evil daily in order to help ourselves and our world.
before Alyss does so Alyss does not have the chance to become Queen. Another thing Redd does is put more card soldiers defending Mount Isolation, which is where Redd stays, to prevent Alyss from reaching her.
Redd killing King Nolan. Next by killing Queen Genivieve and taking over wonderland. Finally by battling Alyss and losing finally letting Good take over once more.
The first way the book introduced Good vs.
Evil was when Redd killed King Nolan.“At the center of the skirmish, slashing his sword this way and that, was King Nolan, still atop his trusted spirit-dane when a figure in a scarlet cloak passed through the fighting, untouched, and stabbed him through the heart with her pointed scepter.”( p.27) This shows Good vs. Evil because Redd stabbed him to gain a little more power to help her become the Queen and it started the civil war. This also ties this book to Alice in Wonderland because Redd is to this book what the Queen of Hearts is to Alice in Wonderland. “Every Wonderlander over the age of twelve remembered the devastation of the civil war between Redd and Genevieve. They knew why Redd had come.” (p.54) This shows that even though Redd had destroyed everything, there were still people who were old enough to remember the battle. This also the two books together because the Queen of Hearts rules with an iron fist in Alice in Wonderland, dictating what everyone had to do, and in this book, Redd rules with a dictatorship, which is how the Queen of Hearts ruled her
Queendom.
The second way the book showed Good vs. Evil was when Redd killed Genivieve and took over Wonderland.“‘Off with their heads!’ the woman screamed. ‘Off with their stinking, boring heads!’”(p.50) Redd beheaded people to gain even more power. She even beheaded her own sister, Queen Genevieve, to take over her throne, and we find out she killed her own mother. “Abandoning herself to her wrath, she slipped into her mother’s dressing room. ‘Even you cannot take away what is mine by birthright,’ she snarled and placed a deadly pink mushroom on her mother’s tongue. Fed by the queen’s saliva, the roots of the fungus worked their way down the sleeping sovereign’s throat and strangled her heart.”(p.56) Redd killed her own mother, which shows that from a very young age, Redd was violent and would do anything to become Queen.
The last way that the book shows Good vs. Evil is when Alyss returns to Wonderland and battles Redd to take back her home .The scene when Alyss returns to Wonderland to take it back and return it to normal shows how the people of Wonderland are happy to have her return to fight against Redd. “A cheer sounded from outside… Princess Alyss, safe and apparently healthy, surrounded by happy Alyssians, gwynooks, and tuttle-birds…”(p.217) It also shows Alyss that the people have been fighting Redd for her until she was able to return and regain her imagination to fight Redd herself. Alyss headed first for the looking glass maze to get there before Redd. “You seek the Looking Glass Maze, as your mother did before you.’”(p.284) This also shows that Alyss and her mother aren’t that different from each other in what they wanted to do to help Wonderland and keep the evil Redd from being the ruler.
Good vs. Evil is shown throughout this book in three main ways: Redd killing King Nolan, Redd killing her sister Queen Genevieve, and Alyss coming back to Wonderland and reclaiming her throne as Queen. This theme is significant because it goes through the whole book and follows Alyss’s whole life from evil destroying her parents to her coming back to destroy evil. The world is impacted by this theme because we all have struggles between good and evil in our lives. We don’t have to fight major battles like Alyss did in the book, but we have to battle to choose good over evil daily in order to help ourselves and our world.