Character of the Red Queen in “Through the Looking Glass”
“I don't know what you mean by your way, all the ways about here belong to me…”— The Red Queen, Through the Looking Glass. An amalgam of the Queen of Hearts, and even sometimes the Duchess from the previous book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), the Red Queen is portrayed as a domineering, puritanical, officious and matronly woman in Lewis Carroll's 1871 fantasy novel Through the Looking-Glass . Civil but yet unpleasant, she brings Alice into the chess game as the White Queen’s pawn and is often seen to hound her about her lack of etiquette and general knowledge like a quintessential Victorian governess. Though viewed as an antagonist in the story for her being in the side opposing Alice, their initial encounter besides the flowers is a cordial one, with the Red Queen explaining the rules of Chess concerning promotion to Alice in that she is able to become a queen initially by starting out as a pawn and ultimately reaching the eighth square. Alice finds herself r...