alice through the looking glass film quotes

This represents Alice's desire to grow up and become an adult, something that shows up as other characters, especially Humpty Dumpty and the Red Queen, pick at Alice's manners and etiquette. Alice's goal as she travels through Looking-glass World is to transform from a pawn into a queen once she reaches the Eighth Square. Through all of this, Alice comes to the conclusion that she likes her name, that it's important to her in most cases, and that having a name is also helpful to others who wish to identify her. Many of the beings she meets along her journey ask her questions about her name, who she is, and what would happen if she didn't have a name. She's also extremely concerned with figuring out who she is. Loneliness and sadness plague her often, especially when individuals she likes and admires, like the Fawn, abandon her suddenly. She travels through this strange Looking-glass Word, and because this is a dream, it reflects Alice's thoughts and anxieties about her real world.

She has an expansive imagination, her favorite phrase being 'let's pretend.' This leads Alice to fall asleep one November day and dream that she climbs through a looking-glass and into Looking-glass House and the world beyond, where a giant chess game is taking place. Alice is a happy child, if a lonely one the novel opens with her talking to her cats, Dinah, Snowdrop, and Kitty, and she's the only human who appears in the novel. Perhaps if I'd come bearing tea and crumpets, with a bewildered, bespectacled white rabbit clutching a pocketwatch in his paw, you'd have been more willing to give me the time of day.The seven-and-a-half-year-old protagonist.

I seem to recall Alice spent the better part of her time being irritated and flustered, too. You make a charming and somewhat more quirky Alice than I'd have expected. 'YOU'RE NEVER TOO OLD TO HAVE A TEA PARTY,' he read out loud, then smiled at her. She lifted her arms away so he could read the script that accompanied the copy of an original pen and ink art rendering of the Hatter seated at a long table, holding a teacup aloft. What does it say?' He nodded toward her apron front. I must say, this dry side of you is surprisingly appealing. Because I'm certain the staff would have greatly appreciated the humor in them.' 'Since I was little and my mom taught me to bake.' When he smiled, she arched a brow.

“On closer notice of her apron, he said, 'Is that-?'

Alice through the looking glass film quotes