Through the Looking-Glass

Alice Through the Looking Glass (also: Alice Through the Looking Glass as well: Through the Looking Glass and what Alice Found There, in the original: Through the Looking -Glass, and What Alice Found There) (1871 ) is a book authored by Lewis Carroll children's book and the sequel to Alice in Wonderland (1865 ).

• 6.1 Film and Television 6.1.1 Only based on Alice Through the Looking Glass
• 6.1.2 When combined with Alice in Wonderland
• 6.1.3 Other Movies

Genesis

With the huge success of Alice in Wonderland Carroll decided to write a sequel. As an illustrator, he was again John Tenniel won, but that turned down the offer at first, because he was too busy. In the printing of Alice was also been a debacle since Tenniel with the pressure of his pictures was dissatisfied and Carroll therefore had to withdraw from the market the entire run. Finally, Tenniel had yet to persuade a new collaboration. The novel was published at Christmas time in 1871 with a first edition of 9000 books and later again 6000 further copies. Just seven weeks after publication of the book already 15,000 copies were sold.

Content

Chapter I: The house behind the mirror

Where Alice in Wonderland on a warm day in May, Alice birthday, begins as the story starts, this time on a snowy day in early November. Alice plays with her cat Dinah and their kittens, one black and one white, in front of the fireplace and a philosophy of how the world would look on the other side of a mirror. Then she climbs on the mantelpiece and notes that the mirror above the fireplace actually leads to a parallel world. On the other hand, she finds a reflected version of her house, where objects eg Pictures, clocks and chess pieces are alive. You will also find a book that is written in mirror writing. It includes the nonsense poem Jabberwocky. She decides to explore the house and goes further into the garden.

Chapter II: In the garden of talking flowers

After Alice has left the house, she finds herself in a sunny garden again is populated by talking flowers. There she meets the Red Queen ( in English, the Red Queen ) and discovered that the landscape is laid out like a large chessboard. Alice also want to participate in the game and is used by the Black Queen as a white queen pawn ( in the original White Queen's pawn ) and starts from the second box. When it reaches the eighth field, it becomes the queen. Then take the Queen Alice by the hand and runs with an incredible pace through the forest move around without it. After the queen has moved on, Alice prepares for her first train.

Chapter III: A Spiegelschnake and other insects

Alice creates an overview of the landscape and observed flying elephants, collect the honey. Then you decide to go further and crosses the first of six small streams and finds himself in a railway again. There she meets all kinds of unusual passengers ( eg, various animals and a man who is dressed in white paper). The train skips the third field and brings Alice with the crossing of the next stream directly into the fourth field. Alice finds herself under a tree again, where her fanning a large mosquito air. You provide it with the mirror in front of insects, for example, the rocking horse fly or the Christmas butterfly.

Chapter IV: The Tweedledum Tweedledee and

Alice meets Tweedledum and Tweedledee on the Twins (English Tweedledum & Tweedledee ) on their way through the forest. She asks the two by the way, but instead of helping her, the two begin to dance and recite poetry in the form of the poem The Walrus and the Zimmerman. Alice is distracted by a loud noise, which turns out to be the snoring of the Black King, sleeping leaning against a tree. The twins would have you believe Alice that they exist only in the king's dream and would disappear when he awoke. Finally, the two brothers, the plot of the nursery rhyme from which they were collected following to fight on, but then are chased by a large crow. Alice flees into the woods where she finds a scarf.

Chapter V: Sheep and rowing

The scarf belongs to the White Queen, but seems to be very confused and constantly muttering the word sandwich in front of him, but the next moment shows her gift of precognition, because it can predict future events. The White Queen and Alice together cross a small stream and thus reach the fifth field. The two found themselves in a small shop and the Queen has taken the form of a talking sheep. Soon after, the shop and Alice is transformed along with the sheep in a rowboat, where the sheep she instructs the sheet flat hold, since otherwise it would catch a cancer. Alice and the sheep are out again in the store where Alice buys an egg, but it does not get hold of. When wandering through the store, it crosses a stream and go again as the sixth field.

Chapter VI: Humpty Dumpty

The egg that Alice wanted to buy at the store, enlarged and changed more and more until it finally in Humpty Dumpty (English Humpty Dumpty ), a character from a well-known English nursery rhyme transformed. Alice talks with the egg on their age and the tie, which Alice mistakenly thought was a belt that Humpty Dumpty has to get his non- birthday of the White King and the White Queen. She then asks him to tell her the nonsense poem Jabberwocky from the first chapter. In the same breath he explains Alice and the reader, the concept of case word. When Alice wants to move on, they will not get far before she is surprised by a loud noise.

Chapter VII: Lion and Unicorn

The noise comes from the many soldiers who march at once through the forest. When she gets out of the woods into the open ground, she finds the white king and his Anglo-Saxon messenger Hasa and hat foundations. ( Tenniel show illustrations of the two, that it is the Hatter and the March Hare from Alice in Wonderland ) report the messengers that the lion and the unicorn, as in the nursery rhyme from which they come to the crown of the White king fight. Alice away eventually. Of the fight and jump over another creek in the Seventh Field

Chapter VIII: The inventions of the White Knight

Alice found herself alone in the new field again until it is discovered by a Black Knight who wants to capture her, but a White Knight comes to her rescue. The knight accompanied Alice through the forest while repeated falls from his horse. He sings to her also a self- composed song before Alice said goodbye to him and crossed the last creek and finally enters the Eighth Square, where she again finds himself with a crown on her head.

Chapter IX: Queen Alice

By crossing the creek eighth Alice has been automatically crowned Queen. Shortly thereafter, she meets the Black and the White Queen, with computing tasks, the want to check out ABC and practical questions whether Alice really can be a queen. Finally, a celebration is held in honor of Alice coronation, but it quickly degenerates into chaos. Alice grabs the Black Queen, who makes them for everything that has happened is responsible, and begins to shake it.

Chapter X: Raw treatment

Alice shakes the shrunken queen who changed more and more.

Chapter XI: Rapid transformation

Namely, in a black kitten.

Chapter XII: Who is dreaming whom?

Alice wakes up in her chair and holding her black kitten, which they associated with the Black Queen, while the white kitten stands for the White Queen. Alice ponders, whose dream it was now finally, her, or at least of the Black King. The book has a poem as a kind of epilogue, in which life itself is compared to a dream.

The Rich Wasp with the wig

Alice Through the Looking Glass was originally supposed to include 13 chapters and 51 illustrations. The removed section was called The Wasp in a Wig. The reason for this was that Tenniel did not get along with the illustration, because he could not imagine a wasp in a wig easily. So he wrote Carroll that the episode is not qualitatively located on the same level as the other 12 Carroll took the criticism and highlighted the already set story completely. The story was years as lost until she showed up in a 1974 catalog auction house Sotheby again.

The episode describes Alice's encounter with a wasp wearing a yellow wig, and includes another poem.

Chess motif

Where Carroll was oriented for Alice in Wonderland to playing cards as a motif, makes use of the Looking Glass now at chess. Most of the characters that Alice meets are chess pieces, they move as a farmer on the giant chessboard. Alice needs to be crowned Queen, come to the eighth field and has to move from one field to another, total cross six streams that are marked in the text with asterisks (**** ). These streams represent the boundaries of the squares of the chessboard and document Alice's progress in the game. That black and white take turns choosing, according to Carroll himself could be met better, but in general the rules have been followed.

Figures

• Alice: The heroine of Alice in Wonderland goes half a year after her adventure in Wonderland on a journey behind the mirror. Although she is much older, Alice is in the second book a lot more confident and clever.
• Black / Red Queen: The first pawn with which Alice has in the mirror world, the life-size black queen. She tells Alice to the white side, thus automatically makes the Queen to Alice's antagonist. The Queen is very pedantic and overbearing and Alice taught as a teacher. Carroll himself described it as cool and strictly, but not entirely unfriendly, it has all the characteristics of a governess. Not to be confused with the Queen of Hearts (Queen of Hearts) from Alice in Wonderland. In films the two characters are often merged into one, which then usually has the characteristics of the Queen of Hearts, but are named after the Red Queen.
• Black / Red King: The king is the whole game over passive since he lies asleep under a tree. Tweedledum and Tweedledee argue then that Alice is only a part of his dream and when you wake up simply disappears. Alice puts him in checkmate later, when they end up taking the queen of the feast and shakes.
• White Queen: Alice sees the queen and the king, still in their character size, for the first time in the mirror house as the two after their daughter Lily are looking for. Later, the Queen Alice runs to meet, as this has found her scarf. Carroll describes the White Queen as a noble and sensitive but at the same time. Well as stupid and helpless as a newborn
• White King: How the Queen Alice sees him for the first time in the mirror house where he is still as big as a normal pawn. The next time Alice meets him, this time to live large, the battle of Unicorn and Lion.
• Humpty Dumpty: Better known as Humpty Dumpty, this figure comes from the same nursery rhyme. He is very skilled with language, so he sets out to use words as he pleases. Thus, mean whatever Humpty Dumpty would like for him names like Alice a general meaning and ordinary words.
• Jabberwocky: The dragon-like creature appears only in the homonymous poem that Alice finds in a book in the mirror house. Carroll wanted to use the Jabberwocky first as a cover picture, but then decided against it but because children might find it perhaps too scary.
• Tweedledum & Tweedledee (English Tweedledum & Tweedledee ): The two originating from the same nursery rhyme twins are enantiomorphic ie they are mirror images of each other. So stretch against both welcome each of the right hand and the other left hand.
• White Knight: One of the few characters who confronts Alice with kindness and treats them with respect and courtesy. It is believed that the White Knight is based on Carroll himself, since both the physical description - tangled hair, friendly face, big eyes - as well as some character traits - fun inventing and penchant for things from a different angle to see Carroll apply. Illustrator John Tenniel illustrated the knight but as a self- portrait, what Carroll did not like, but Tenniel prevailed.
• Walrus & Carpenter: The two main characters from the eponymous poem that Tweedledum and Tweedledee Alice tell. Carroll gave Tenniel the manuscript for illustration, but gave him the choice either a carpenter to paint a butterfly or a baronet, as all three words to fit the rhyme scheme. This shows that not always have to put a certain symbolism behind Carroll's poems, but that they are mainly used for entertainment of children.
• Hat foundations & Hasa: In the two Anglo-Saxon messengers of the White King is the Mad Hatter and the March Hare from Alice in Wonderland.
• Lion & Unicorn: Two more characters from a children's rhyme compete for the crown of the White King, which makes their struggle so absurd. The rhyme was popular in the early 17th century, when Scotland and England joined forces, which resulted in a new logo which adorns both the Scottish unicorn and the English lion. Tenniel's illustration of the two characters was seen as a caricature of the politician Benjamin Disraeli ( Unicorn ) and William Ewart Gladstone (Lion). Whether this was Carroll's intention, but it is unclear to this day.

Media

Film and Television

Alice Through the Looking Glass was filmed many times, but usually in combination with Alice in Wonderland

Based only on Alice Through the Looking Glass

One of the oldest film adaptations of the book dates from 1928 and was Alice Through A looking glass (directed by Walter Lang). In 1966 a musical version with Judy Rolin and Jack Palance in the lead roles. There also some TV versions were produced, including the 1973 published BBC version, a 1999 published feature film starring Kate Beckinsale in the lead role, who is also the first time included the lost wasp Rich with the wig - episode, and an animated film featuring the voices of Mr. T and Phyllis Diller from the year 1987.

When combined with Alice in Wonderland

Movies that both stories were combined, inter alia, the 1933 released movie with Gary Cooper and Cary Grant. Elements of Alice through the Looking Glass were, for example, the occurrence of Humpty Dumpty, the White Queen and the White Knight .. Also the 1951 Disney film released Alice in Wonderland shows with the two poems Jabberwocky and The Walrus and the Carpenter episodes from the second book. In the 2010 released movie directed by Tim Burton, there are many elements from Through the Looking Glass as the occurrence of the White Queen and the Jabberwocky, which plays a larger role.

Other Movies

The resulting 1977 film Jabberwocky (film ), directed by Terry Gilliam weaves the story of the poem of the same name on. In the Disney short film Mickey in dreamland Mickey Mouse enters through a mirror a bizarre country. Donald Duck meets in 1959, published short film Donald in the land of magic math disguised as Alice, the Red Queen on a chessboard

Theater

Early as 1886, brought Carroll 's two books: the opera Alice in Wonderland: A Musical Dream Play, in two acts, for Children and Others on the stage. The play was a financial success, Carroll himself gave her only a mediocre rating. 1980 Meryl Streep played the role of Alice in the stage production Alice in Concert In 2007, an acrobatic version of the two books was first performed under the title Looking Glass Alice and currently runs indefinitely in Chicago