Character of the White Queen in Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking Glass”
Introduced as one of the queens in Looking-glass World, the White Queen is a fictional character who appears in Lewis Carroll's 1871 fantasy novel Through the Looking-Glass. Prior to the game, the White Queen along with her husband the White King first appears to be an animate chess piece of normal size in the drawing room looking for her daughter Lily just beyond the titular looking-glass and, for whatever reason, cannot hear or see Alice after she passed through the eponymous looking glass. Alice, not realising this, picks both her and the White King off the floor and places them on a table, leading them to believe that some unseen volcano blew them up there. Upon her first arrival, Alice finds the White Queen extremely perplexing and not particularly queen-like. She does not meet her as a human-sized character until the Fifth Square. The White Queen is portrayed as an elderly woman who is very aware of her situations and what is going to happen next. She looks untidy with a comb...