By Kayla, Melissa & Jake
Thesis: The Red Queen is the villain of Through the Looking Glass because she is condescending towards Alice and increases the level of anxiety for her throughout her adventures. She claims to be in control of all that is going on and criticizes Alice whenever she can. Therefore, without the Red Queen, Alice’s adventure would have been much easier and stress free.
Thesis: The Red Queen is the villain of Through the Looking Glass because she is condescending towards Alice and increases the level of anxiety for her throughout her adventures. She claims to be in control of all that is going on and criticizes Alice whenever she can. Therefore, without the Red Queen, Alice’s adventure would have been much easier and stress free.
· Pg. 192 – scolded Alice and “sharply interrupted”
· Pg. 193 – also “interrupted impatiently”
· She’s conceited, thinks she’s superior
o Pg. 128 when she tells Alice she “should have said ‘Its extremely kind of you to tell all me this.’”
· Pg. 193 – Insulted the White Queen or Alice, accuses one of them of having a “nasty, vicious temper.”
· Rude and hypocritical, preaches about manners but in reality doesn’t have manners herself (interrupts people etc)
o Pg. 194 – “wrong as usual”
· Pg. 125 – Alice is afraid of the Red Queen
· Pg. 200 – tries to ruin Alice’s dinner
· Orders people around, is very bossy
· Abusive of her power
· Pg. 204 – “cause of all the mischief”
· She turns into the black cat. Black cats represent bad omens and the black cat at the beginning of the story was the one that was acting naughty.
· Condescending
· Pg. 124 – “all the ways about here belong to me.”
I believe this thesis is the the strongest because it has the most textual support. The thesis also has gives many faucets to argue which would make for a strong paper if it were to go any further.
ReplyDeleteI believe that this entry bears the most strongly supported argument. Although the Cheshire Cat, the caterpillar, and the White Rabbit represent villains in their own way, I believe that they all play at a weakness of Alice and not so much as being a true villain themselves. The Red Queen also shows the most about the power aspect of Alice in Wonderland, which creates the Red Queen as the biggest villain, so this thesis is the strongest argument. -Chloe Toso
ReplyDeleteBased on the thesis and examples from the text, it is clear that the main villain in the Alice stories is the Red Queen. She is constantly correcting or insulting Alice as well as anyone else in her presence. The Red Queen also causes Alice to be very stressed throughout much of the story in the way that she is always correcting Alice's flaws in a very harsh manner. She also thinks that she is better than everyone else, which intimidates poor Alice. Most of the book excerpts above hit upon these characteristics of entitlement, conceitedness, power, and intimidation which the Queen believes she is allowed to possess.
ReplyDeleteThis entry really sticks out to me, enforcing that the Red Queen acted as Alice's true villain. The evidence that impacted me was the Queen acting superior to Alice, proving her "wrong as usual", and acting bossy. This is because Alice wanted to seem older than she was and to be respected by all. The Queen invaded these ideas of Alice's by shoving her down and making her feel so much younger and inferior. This lead to Alice having deeper struggles within her own identity. She made tensions very high for Alice and I believe that without the Red Queen the story would have involved Alice's feelings very differently.
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