There, Alice also meets the Red Queen, who offers a throne to Alice if she can move to the eighth rank in a real life chess match. Upon leaving the house, Alice enters a garden where the flowers speak to her and mistake her for a flower. There, she discovers a book of looking-glass poetry, " Jabberwocky", which she can read only by holding it up to a mirror. To her surprise, she is able to pass through the glass to experience the alternate world on the other side. Carroll incorporates many mirror themes, including opposites and time running backwards, into the plot.Īlice is playing with her kittens-a black kitten named Kitty and a white kitten named Snowdrop, the offspring of Dinah, Alice's pet cat in the first book-when she begins to wonder what the world is like on the other side of a mirror (the reflected scene displayed on its surface). It is almost a mirror image of Alice in Wonderland in terms of setting and imagery the first book begins outdoors in the warm month of May, uses frequent changes in size as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of playing cards the second opens indoors on a snowy, wintry night exactly six months later, uses frequent changes in time and spatial directions as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of chess. Carroll wrote Through the Looking Glass as the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) is a work of children's literature by Lewis Carroll, or Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, with illustrations by Sir John Tenniel.
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