![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As the foreign world through the looking glass disobeys Alice’s established views, so does it disobey the reader’s views. He confronts the reader indirectly through Alice. Lewis Carroll challenges this personal reality in Through the Looking Glass by using the genre of fantasy. One cannot escape how his opinions and his single point of view distort and reshape reality, The lone subjective mind can never understand what constitutes absolute truth or reality. 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. ![]() 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, and What Alice Found There (also known as Alice Through Through The Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll ![]()
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