This unpredictable chaos, however, doesn’t stop Alice from trying to make sense of the nonsense happening around her. It’s a world in which it seems like anything is possible.
Looking-glass World is one in which flowers talk, nursery rhyme characters and chess pieces come to life, and sheep knit while inexplicably shouting rowing terms. Through wordplay, pointless battles, and the fantastical, dreamlike setting, Through the Looking-Glass makes nonsense the norm-while also suggesting that attempting to make sense out of nonsense is a normal, if often futile, endeavor.įrom the moment Alice crawls through the looking-glass and into Looking-glass World, the novel asks that the reader- and, for that matter, Alice-suspend their disbelief. While not as lighthearted as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass nevertheless occupies the sanic silly, nonsensical world as its predecessor. While nonsense proves to be the bread-and- butter of Lewis Carroll’s writing style, it is not without purpose the narrative structuring of the chess game and Alice’s pursuit of queenhood, coupled with the exchanges with the various characters, fall in line with a classic coming of age tale, and present Alice as a figure within a Bildungsroman.
Lewis Carroll’s sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), titled Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871), takes the beloved Alice into a new world featuring a live game of chess, a few bizarre characters, and a repetition of classic nursery rhymes. Alice again enters a fantastical world, this time by climbing through a mirror into the world that she can see beyond it. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (also known as Alice Through the Looking-Glass or simply Through the Looking-Glass) is a novel published on 27 December 1871 by Lewis Carroll and the sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Through The Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
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