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A list of all the characters in Through the Looking-Glass. Through the Looking-Glass characters include: Alice, The Red Queen, The White Knight.
While the first Alice novel took playing cards as a theme, Through the Looking-Glass instead used chess; most of the main characters are represented by chess pieces, with Alice being a pawn. The looking-glass world consists of square fields divided by brooks or streams, and the crossing of each brook typically signifies a change in scene, with ...
- Lewis Carroll
- 1871
Character Description; Alice: Alice, a young girl, is the center of the story. She enters a looking-glass and has a series of odd encounters as she proceeds to the Eighth Square, where she will be made queen. Read More: Red Queen: The Red Queen is the more coherent of the two queens. She acts both as Alice's mentor and opponent. Read More ...
CharacterDescriptionAliceAlice, a young girl, is the center of the ...Red QueenThe Red Queen is the more coherent of the ...White QueenPlump, untidy, and distracted, the White ...White KingThe White King is the only king who takes ...Alice Character Analysis. The seven-and-a-half-year-old protagonist. Alice is a happy child, if a lonely one; the novel opens with her talking to her cats, Dinah, Snowdrop, and Kitty, and she's the only human who appears in the novel. She has an expansive imagination, her favorite phrase being "let's pretend."
- Alice. The seven-and-a-half-year-old protagonist. Alice is a happy child, if a lonely one; the novel opens with her talking to her cats, Dinah, Snowdrop, and Kitty, and she's the only human who appears… read analysis of Alice.
- The White Queen. One of the queens in Looking-glass World. Alice finds her extremely perplexing and not particularly queen-like. She spends the entire novel in a state of disarray, as she cannot keep track of her shawl and… read analysis of The White Queen.
- The Red Queen. A snappy and authoritative queen in Looking-glass World. As a queen, she can move all around the chessboard quickly. Alice greatly admires the Red Queen at first, and tries her best to follow all of… read analysis of The Red Queen.
- Humpty Dumpty. The egg-shaped individual from the nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty." He sits high on a wall when Alice meets him. Humpty Dumpty is rude, imperious, and self-important.
Alice is the protagonist of the story. She is a playful, imaginative seven-year-old who was also the main character of Carroll's first book. She is inspired by an actual girl who was in some ways Carroll's ward. She leads the reader through the looking-glass world, which is a metaphor for her journey to adulthood.
