The Looking Glass Wars Analysis

In the book, The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor, the classic story of Alice in Wonderland is flipped on it’s side. In Beddor’s novel, Queen Genivieve of Wonderland’s daughter, Alyss, takes an interesting journey, but in the end, ends up back in Wonderland. When Alyss is young, Redd kills King Nolan, which is the first time evil comes to Wonderland. Soon after that, Redd attacks Heart Palace and Queen Genevieve sends Alyss into the Pool of Tears but Alyss sees Redd kill Genevieve before she is able to escape. Thirteen years later, when Alyss returns to Wonderland, things start to change as good and evil sides begin to battle and Alyss is able to finally beat Redd and good wins over evil. One of the ways this is shown is Queen Redd, who is never afraid of anything, shows slight hints of fear like making sure she gets to the looking glass maze
Evil was when Redd killed King Nolan.“At the center of the skirmish, slashing his sword this way and that, was King Nolan, still atop his trusted spirit-dane when a figure in a scarlet cloak passed through the fighting, untouched, and stabbed him through the heart with her pointed scepter.”( p.27) This shows Good vs. Evil because Redd stabbed him to gain a little more power to help her become the Queen and it started the civil war. This also ties this book to Alice in Wonderland because Redd is to this book what the Queen of Hearts is to Alice in Wonderland. “Every Wonderlander over the age of twelve remembered the devastation of the civil war between Redd and Genevieve. They knew why Redd had come.” (p.54) This shows that even though Redd had destroyed everything, there were still people who were old enough to remember the battle. This also the two books together because the Queen of Hearts rules with an iron fist in Alice in Wonderland, dictating what everyone had to do, and in this book, Redd rules with a dictatorship, which is how the Queen of Hearts ruled her