Through The Looking Glass And What Alice Found There Essay

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Introduction:

The majority of the population is aware of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” but not many know about its sequel “Through the Looking-Glass (And What Alice Found There)” which was written a short time after the first book.
This book was chosen due to the fact that it is particularly unknown to many and it was considered as a good opportunity to introduce something that has been hidden behind many best sellers and other books.

Biographical Notes & Background Information

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, composed at 1871 is a novel by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, best known as Lewis Carroll and the sequel of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which was composed at 1865.
It is focused around his gathering
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They then welcomed each other to a gathering that would be facilitated by the recently delegated Alice, of which Alice herself had no former information. Alice arrived and sat herself at her own gathering, which rapidly turned to a disorderly mayhem much like the closure of the first book. Alice at long last got the Red Queen, trusting her to be in charge of all the day's gibberish, and starts shaking her savagely energetically. By subsequently "catching" the Red Queen, Alice unknowingly puts the Red King (who has stayed stationary all through the book) into checkmate, and in this way is permitted to wake up.
Alice all of a sudden rised in her rocker to end up holding the dark cat, whom she concluded to have been the Red Queen from the beginning, with the white cat having been the White Queen. The story closed with Alice reviewing the hypothesis of the Tweedle siblings, that everything may have, truth be told, been a fantasy of the Red King, and that Alice may herself been close to an illusion of his creative energy. One last ballad is embedded by the creator as a kind of epilog which recommends that life itself is however a

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