Through the Looking-Glass (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- First Published: 1871
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy
- Time of Work: Nineteenth century
- Setting: The dreamworld of an imaginative child
- Principal Characters: Alice, Dinah, The Black Kitten, The White Kitten, The White King, The Red King, Gnat, Tweedledum, Humpty Dumpty, The Lion, The White Knight
- Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman, Fantasy
- Subjects: Girls, Maturation or coming of age, Children, Traveling or travelers, Nineteenth century, Education or educators, Other worlds, Dreams, Cats, Reality, Kings, queens, or royalty, Fantasy, Imagination, Comedy, Pretensions, Animals, Games, Chess or chess players, Mirrors or lenses
- Locales: Dreamscape, Godstow, England, Wonderland (mythic)
The Story:
Alice was sure the whole thing was not the white kitten’s fault. It must surely have been the fault of the black kitten. Dinah, the mother cat, who had been washing the white kitten’s face, certainly had had nothing to do with it. The mischievous black kitten, however, had been unwinding Alice’s yarn and in all ways acting naughty enough to cause the whole strange affair.
While the black kitten was curled up in Alice’s lap playing with the yarn, Alice told it to pretend that the two of them could go right through the mirror and into the looking-glass...
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