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Lewis Carroll is nothing more than pseudonym. Charles Dodgson did his best to distance himself from his alter ego, sending back letters from Alice fans marked "addressee unknown." But the fact remains: the books he created about Alice's travels brought him much more popularity than all his scholarly works.
1. Difficulties in translation
The book has been translated into 125 languages of the world. And it wasn't that easy. The thing is that if you translate the fairy tale literally, then all the humor and all its charm disappears - there are too many puns and witticisms based on the features in it. in English. Therefore, it was not the translation of the book that enjoyed the greatest success, but the retelling of Boris Zakhoder. In total, there are about 13 options for translating a fairy tale into Russian. Moreover, in the first version, created by an anonymous translator, the book was called "Sonya in the Kingdom of the Diva." The next translation appeared almost 30 years later, and the cover read "Ani's Adventures in the World of Wonders." And Boris Zakhoder admitted that he considered the name “Alice in Wonderland” to be more appropriate, but decided that the public would not appreciate such a title.
Alice in Wonderland has been filmed 40 times, including animated versions. Alice even appeared on the Muppets show - where the role of the girl was played by Brooke Shields.
3. The Mad Hatter was not in the first edition of the book.
Yes, don't be surprised. The tactless, absent-minded, eccentric and extravagant Hatter, so brilliantly played by Johnny Depp, did not appear in the first version of the tale. By the way, in the translation by Nina Demiurova, recognized as the best of all existing ones, the character's name is Hatter. The fact is that in English hatter meant not only “hatter”, as they called people who do everything wrong. Therefore, we decided that our fools would be the closest analogue in Russian. So the Hatter became the Hatter. By the way, his name and character originated from the English saying "Mad as a hatter". At that time, it was believed that workers who create hats could go crazy due to exposure to mercury vapor, which was used to process felt.
By the way, the Hatter was not the only character who was not in the original version of Alice. The Cheshire cat also appeared later.
In fact, if we talk about illustrations, it is easier to name those who in their work bypassed the motives of "Alice". The most famous are the drawings of John Tenniel, who created 42 black and white illustrations for the first publication of the book. Moreover, each drawing was discussed with the author.
Fernando Falcon's illustrations leave an ambiguous impression - seemingly cute and childish, but it seems to be like a nightmare.
Jim Minji created illustrations in the best traditions of Japanese anime, Erin Taylor drew an African-style tea party.
And Elena Kalis illustrated Alice's adventures in photographs, transferring the events to the underwater world.
Salvador Dali painted 13 watercolors for different situations from book. Probably, his drawings are not the most childish and not even the most understandable for an adult, but they are delightful.
Well, this is just not surprising. The whole Wonderland is a world of absurdity. Some vicious critics even called everything that happened in the book nonsense. However, we will ignore the attacks of too mundane personalities, alien to fantasy and devoid of imagination, and turn to the facts from the field of medicine. And the facts are: among mental disorders a person has micropsia - a state when a person perceives objects and objects proportionally reduced. Or enlarged. Remember how Alice grew and then decreased? So here. A person with Alice in Wonderland syndrome can see an ordinary doorknob as if it were the size of the door itself. But much more often people perceive objects as if from afar. What is most terrible, a person in this state does not understand what really exists, and what only seems to him.
There are references to the work of Lewis Carroll in many books and films. One of the most famous implicit quotes is the phrase "Follow the white rabbit" in the science fiction action movie The Matrix. A little later in the film, another allusion pops up: Morpheus offers Neo two pills to choose from. By choosing the right one, Keanu Reeves' character finds out "how deep that rabbit hole goes." And on the face of Morpheus there is a smile of the Cheshire cat. There are a whole bunch of analogies in Resident Evil, starting with the name main character- Alice, before the name of the central computer - "Red Queen". The action of the virus and antivirus was tested on a white rabbit, and to get into the corporation, one had to go through a mirror. And even in the horror movie "Freddie vs. Jason" there was a place for Carroll's heroes. One of the victims in the movie sees Freddy Krueger
Over the past 20 years that Tim Burton and his "muse" - Johnny Depp have worked together, they have proven that their fruitful duo can show decent results. The gothic beauty of "Edward Scissorhands", the campy farce of "Sleepy Hollow", the mind-blowing insanity of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", each of their joint creations was unforgettable for the viewer.
So fans are eagerly awaiting the result of their latest collaboration, Alice in Wonderland, where Johnny Depp plays the Mad Hatter who meets Alice (Mia Wasikowska).
Let's go behind the scenes to find out that Tim Burton doesn't like motion capture technology, Mia Wasikowska hates green walls, and that creating an animated cat is much more difficult than you might imagine...
Fact 1. This film is not like the previous adaptations of the famous story.
Because, frankly, Tim Burton wasn't impressed with them. “All the versions of Alice that I saw suffered from a lack of dynamics,” says Tim. “They were all absurd stories, showing one phantasmagoric character after another. You look at them and think, “Oh, this looks unusual. Hmm, how strange ... ”and you don’t even pay attention to the development of the plot.
How does Tim Burton plan to avoid all these pitfalls? “We tried to make all the characters more solid and make the story more down to earth, simpler,” explains the director.
“I mean, they are still insane, but we gave each character their own specific insanity and a lot more depth.”
Fact 2. All special effects were obtained by trial and error.
Or, as Burton likes to say, "it was an organic process."
In fact, the special effects team filmed all the scenes using expensive Zemekis image capture equipment to discard the footage.
“In the scene with the Jack of Hearts (Crispin Glover pictured) and the tweedles, we used motion capture,” says lead animator David Schaub. “Knave in the story is 2.5 meters tall, so we thought motion capture would be the best way in this case. But in order for the tweedles' eyes to be directed correctly, we had to put the actor on stilts. As a result, all captured images depicted the actor on stilts. It looked ridiculous. ”
“Were you sorry to throw away the footage?”
“It's Tim's choice, he acted from his own experience and what he saw and the technique he used,” answers David Schaub.
“We discussed all the things we like and don't like about image capture technology. I had some heated discussions with the animation team, but personally I think this technology looks weird,” says Tim Burton.
Fact 3. You will not understand what is real and what is not.
“There are only three live actors in the film: Alice (Wasikowska), the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp) and the white queen (Anne Hathaway). Tweedles and Jack of Hearts are real heads mounted on animated bodies, it looks very unusual, you have not seen anything like it. This is very cool.
At the same time, the red queen is a combination of several different methods, which we eventually distorted somewhat.
But one of the most difficult tasks was the creation of the Cheshire Cat. The difficulty was that he flies. And we thought, if cats could fly, how would they do it?
Then he always shows his huge smile, which causes problems, since he must have emotions. But how to convey other emotions, except for happiness, if he is constantly smiling? It was complicated.
As for the wonderland itself, it is completely modeled on a computer. Except, perhaps, for one scenery - this is the staircase that Alice descends after falling into the rabbit hole.
The result certainly looks amazing, but try to understand poor Mia Wasikowski.
“It was three months before the green screen,” sighs the actress. “I had to keep in mind that I would have an animated character in front of me. But this is very difficult to do when you have only tennis balls and duct tape in front of you.”
Fact 4. The Mad Hatter is a Depp/Burton creation.
“It’s funny,” says costume designer Colleen Atwood, who has worked with Tim Burton for 20 years, “but when the three of us made sketches of what we thought the Mad Hatter should look like and compared them to each other, they looked very similar” .
“One of the very interesting features Hatter's costume is that he is able to change his color, depending on the mood of the owner.”
“I made a lot of sketches of costumes, different colors and shades, and then it was all enhanced with computer graphics. It will look very cool.”
Fact 5. Mia Wasikowska is the new Cate Blanchett.
“She's just a delightful young lady,” says Colleen Atwood, “she has no head in the clouds, is extremely hardworking and has a great sense of humor, which is a must when making such a crazy film.”
“She reminds me a lot of Cate Blanchett in the sense that they are both very talented and easy to talk to. And they are both from Australia.”
“Mia has a very mature soul, but there are elements about her that make her feel very young and naive,” agrees Tim Burton. “She is perfect for the role of Alice, as she plays herself. She, too, is at a crossroads in her career right now, and this movie will probably be the weirdest movie she's ever made. It is very unusual even for me.”
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On August 2, 1865, Macmillan published the first edition of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
SmartNews decided to choose the 5 most interesting facts related to this famous fairy tale.
hatter
There is a character in the tale called the Hatter or the Mad Hatter. The name Mad Hatter owes its origin to English proverb"mad as a hatter" ("mad as a hatter"). The appearance of such a proverb is due to the fact that in the 19th century, craftsmen who made hats often suffered from excitability, impaired speech, and trembling hands. The health disorder of the hatters was caused by chronic mercury poisoning. A solution of mercury was used to process hat felt. As you know, toxic mercury vapor affects the central nervous system.
Cheshire Cat
The Cheshire Cat was not in the original version of the tale. This character was added to the tale in 1865. Mysterious smile The Cheshire Cat is explained by some with the then-popular saying "smiles like a Cheshire cat". Some researchers believe that the famous Cheshire cheese was given the appearance of a smiling cat. According to another version, Carroll was inspired to come up with this character by a sandstone cat figure, which was installed near the church of St. Wilfrid in the village of Grappenhall.
Dormouse Mouse
The character of the Dormouse Mouse in the book "Alice in Wonderland" was periodically in the teapot. This can be explained by the fact that children at that time kept dormouse as pets in teapots. The kettles were filled with grass and hay.
Turtle Quasi
The Quasi Turtle character in Lewis Carroll's book often cries. This is due to the fact that sea turtles tears often appear. They help turtles remove salt from the body.
On July 4, 1865, the first edition of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was published.
Alice in Wonderland is probably one of the most famous works in the world. Meanwhile, the main character of the story had quite real prototype, Alice Liddell. Telling her stories, Lewis Carroll wrote his own famous work.
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The real Alice from Wonderland, photograph by Lewis Carroll, England, 1862
Alice Liddell lived a long and happy life. At the age of 28, she married Reginald Hargreaves, professional player cricket for Hampshire, had three sons. Unfortunately, both of the elders - Alan Niveton Hargreaves and Leopold Reginald "Rex" Hargreaves - died in the First World War. Alice died at her home in Westerham in 1934, at the age of 82.
The story was originally titled Alice's Underground Adventures, and a handwritten copy given to Alice by Lewis Carroll was sold by her for £15,400 to Eldridge R. Johnson, co-founder of the Victor Talking Machine Company, in 1926.
Adult Alice from the Looking Glass.
After Johnson's death, the book was purchased by a consortium of American bibliophiles. Today the manuscript is kept in the British Library.
Alice Liddell, photograph by an unknown photographer.
Alice was 80 years old when, while on a visit to the US, she met Peter Llewellyn Davis, the one who inspired J. M. Barry's famous work "Peter Pan".
Alice Liddell Hargreaves Pleasence in old age, 1932
The minor planet 17670 Liddell is named after Alice Liddell.
Last page of L. Carroll's original manuscript of Alice's Underground Adventures.
A few more rare original photographs the real Alice from Wonderland.
Alice Liddell (right) with her sisters, photograph by Lewis Carroll, 1859
Divine Residence – Director Tim Burton's London office once belonged to Arthur Rackham, the famous English book illustrator, who produced pictorial color drawings for the 1907 edition of Alice in Wonderland.
The question is, WHO ARE YOU? – Lewis Carroll is the pseudonym of the Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, lecturer in mathematics at the University of Christchurch in Oxford, England.
Wonderland, No Dungeon - Underland is the same fantasy land that Alice visited as a child, but according to screenwriter Linda Woolverton, she misheard the word "Underland" and thought they said "Wonderland". Woolverton says that Underland is part of the planet Earth, saying it is far below our world. The country is facing hard times since the malevolent Red Queen has assumed the throne, but she is indeed a wonderful country. This might explain why the girl who mistook her for Wonderland was called in to help bring the country back to glory.
Almost Alice - "Alice In Wonderland" spawned two CDs of music: an original motion picture soundtrack written by composer Danny Elfman, and "Almost Alice" a 16-song companion compilation featuring performers including Avril Lavigne, Robert Smith, Franz Ferdinand and others . The album's title, "Almost Alice," comes from storyline in film. Everyone in the Underland has been waiting for Alice's return, but when she does return, no one, including Alice herself, believes that she is indeed the same Alice, confident and feisty they once knew. Ultimately, the wise caterpillar tells her that she is almost Alice.
Depp's design - Actor Johnny Depp always gets enough training for each of his roles, and preparing to play the Mad Hatter was no exception.
Before production began, the actor began making watercolor paintings of what the Mad Hatter might look like, discovering later that his vision was quite similar to director Tim Burton's.
The Mad Hatter's Mood Ring - The Hatter suffers from mercury poisoning, a common unfortunate condition many hatters of the era used chemical substances in their craft. Depp and Burton perfected this Mad Hatter madness by literally showing the Hatter's multiple mood swings through changes in his make-up and wardrobe, creating a virtual human mood ring.
Changes - Mia Wasikowski, who plays Alice, is five feet four in real life, but Alice changes size throughout the course of her adventures in Wonderland, ranging from 6 inches to 20 feet tall. Production worked hard to use practical methods, not just special effects, and often it was putting Alice on an apple crate to make her taller than everyone else.
Drink Me - the potion Alice drinks to shrink is called Pishsolver (derived from English words"Fu!" and "dissolve" - approx. Helga. The pie she eats to grow up is called Upelkuchen.
Sweet And Sour - Actress Anne Hathaway, who plays the White Queen in "Alice in Wonderland," decided that her character would not just be pretty. The White Queen comes from the same gene pool as the evil Red Queen, thus Hathaway created a "radically vegetarian pacifist punk rocker" and was inspired by singer Blondie, Greta Garbo, Dan Flavin and Norma Desmond.
Futter. WHAT? - Futterwacken is a term used to describe the dance of unbridled joy by the inhabitants of Underland. Composer Danny Elfman was puzzled when it came to creating the music for the dance. He wrote four different segments for the director, with a separate one for each fun, Elfman says he “went beyond what could be acceptable. ”
Tweedledee and Tweedledee - Actor Matt Lucas was brought in to play Tweedledum and Tweedledum. They are spherical twin brothers who constantly disagree with each other and whose confusing chatter is incomprehensible to anyone but themselves. Lucas, however, sometimes proved unable to play Tweedledum and Tweedledum at the same time (for some reason. Actor Ethan Cohen was approached to portray Tweedledum for Tweedledum (or vice versa) during filming, but he would never appear on screen.
Bandersnatch? - This disgusting, drooling, foul-smelling creature has a large, filthy body and the crushed, teeth-baring face of a rabid bulldog. The creature leaves Alice with a rather painful reminder of the Red Queen's terrible reign.
Co-Dimension - Costume designer Colleen Atwood had her job designing costumes for the ever-changing Alice Mia Wasikowski. Character changes set various items clothing, including vestments made from the Red Queen's curtains from the Red Queen's curtains, and even armor. Atwood had to find fabric in different weights, and design costumes for Mia to help illustrate her size changes.
ABOUT HIS Head - Crispin Glover plays Stein, the Jack of Hearts, but only his head appears on screen. The character's body, seven and a half feet tall, is entirely computer generated. On set, Glover wore a green suit and stilts to make him look taller. His face was completely made up for the role (eye patch and scar. For the end result, his entire costume, body and even cape were created by CGI. Only his face is real.
ABOUT HER Face - Helena Bonham Carter endured three hours of makeup every morning to transform into the fierce Red Queen. With the help of make-up, the actress appeared in white powder, in a lot of blue eye shadow, completely transformed with the help of painted eyebrows and beautiful, heart-shaped lips. Bonham Carter's head was enlarged by the special effects team during post-production.
Sole Surprise - Costume designer Colleen Atwood added a red heart to the soles of the Red Queen's boots, visible when pampered royal feet on a "living pig footstool".
Stilted Trouble - Crispin Glover, who spent most of his time on stilts during filming, sprained his ankle while filming one of the scenes, so he was often accompanied on set by stuntmen dressed in green, who had to catch him in case he fell again.
Carrot Frame - TIM Burton wanted the animal characters in Wonderland to seem real, not cartoonish. So before creating the White Rabbit, the animators spent a day at the rabbit sanctuary observing the animals and photographing them to ensure they captured the nuances of the rabbits chewing and the movement of their noses.
2D - Into 3D - Director Tim Burton decided to shoot the film in 2D and convert it later to 3D. The director was so impressed with the results of converting his film The Nightmare Before Christmas into 3D that he decided to do the same for Alice.
Special Effects Genius - Tim Burton turned to legendary special effects guru Ken Rolston of Sony Imageworks to create the amazing world of Wonderland and its inhabitants. Rolston (known for such works as “ star Wars“Forrest Gump and his team shot over 2,500 visual effects shots for the film. The team used a combination of live action, animation and action capture technology.
In Green - To represent the fully digital characters on set, models were used in life size or people in green, stuck various parts anatomy to help the actors with dialogue and give them at least something real to look at and react to.
Hair on End - When the animators looked at reference photo real caterpillars, they noticed that they had hairs on them. So the Absolem Caterpillar was covered in tiny, computer-generated hairs.
Real Stuff - Very few real sets were built for Wonderland. In fact, only three versions of the Round Hall (where Alice ends up after falling down the rabbit hole) and the Red Queen's dungeon were scenery. The rest were created digitally.
Eyes YES Notice - The Mad Hatter's eyes have been slightly enlarged, making them about 10-15 percent larger than Johnny Depp's eyes.
Storming the Internet - When the animators started designing the Dodo, their first stop was a Google image search and then the Natural History Museum in London.
Big Head - A special 4000-line resolution Dulsa camera was used to film Helena Bonham Carter and allow her head to be doubled in size without losing image quality.
Alice in wonderland cartoon. Alice in Wonderland (Disney, 1951)
Animated film created by tale of the same name Carroll by Walt Disney Studios, USA, released on premiere in 1951. Due to the difficulty of translating the fairy tale into a cinema format, the cartoon "Alice in Wonderland" by directors Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Lasky was filmed for five long years. The original title of the cartoon is "Alice in Wonderland". The duration of the film is 75 minutes. Genre - musical, fantasy, adventure. According to Disney, making films about naive princesses is much easier than conveying inner world a small but smart girl beyond her years. Each cartoon character is endowed with his own character, emotions, special movements. It seems to be fabulous beautiful world everything lives, blooms and sings. This is the same cartoon that you want to review more than once, distracted from your own problems, plunging into childhood and carelessness.
The plot of the cartoon: a little blond girl Alice is a very curious person. She sees a late rabbit with a huge watch, and the girl is so interested in where the little rabbit is in such a hurry that she climbs into a hole after him and falls into it. From this moment, unprecedented miracles begin, which are accompanied by ringing and melodic music, which makes viewing even more interesting. Alice meets a door that talks, but she is not surprised - she is chasing a rabbit. To get out the door, the girl has to decrease, then increase, then again decrease to an incredibly small size. Outside the door, Alice will meet with a sea of funny and strange characters: a caterpillar, talking flowers, brothers with a story about curious oysters, and what is the Cheshire cat worth. But the girl continues to look for the rabbit and ends up in the Queen's garden.
Illustration by John Tenniel for Alice in Wonderland. London, 1867 year Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
Illustration by John Tenniel for Alice Through the Looking-Glass. Chicago, 1900 Library of Congress
Lewis Carroll with the family of writer George MacDonald. 1863 George MacDonald Society
Illustration by John Tenniel for Alice in Wonderland. London, 1867 Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
To truly understand Alice in Wonderland, it is important to keep in mind that this book came into being by accident. The author moved where his fantasy led him, not wanting to tell the reader anything and not implying any clues. Perhaps that is why the text has become an ideal field for the search for meanings. That's far from full list interpretations of books about Alice offered by readers and researchers.
History of England
The baby duke turning into a pig is Richard III, whose coat of arms depicted a white boar, and the Queen's demand to dye white roses red is, of course, a reference to the confrontation between the Scarlet and White Roses - Lancasters and Yorks. According to another version, the book depicts the court of Queen Victoria: according to legend, the queen herself wrote "Alice", and then asked an unknown Oxford professor to sign the tales with her name.
History of the Oxford Movement The Oxford Movement was a movement to bring Anglican worship and dogmatics closer to the Catholic tradition that developed in Oxford in the 1830s and 40s.
The high and low doors that Alice, changing height, is trying to enter are the High and Low Churches (gravitating, respectively, to the Catholic and Protestant traditions) and the believer who oscillates between these currents. Dean the Cat and the Scottish Terrier, the mention of which the Mouse (a simple parishioner) is so afraid of, is Catholicism and Presbyterianism, the White and Black Queens are Cardinals Newman and Manning, and the Barmaglot is the papacy.
Chess problem
To solve it, it is necessary to use, in contrast to ordinary problems, not only chess technique, but also "chess morality", leading the reader to broad moral and ethical generalizations.
Encyclopedia of psychosis and sexuality
In the 1920s and 50s, they became especially popular psychoanalytic interpretations"Alice", and Carroll's friendship with children began to be presented as evidence of his unnatural inclinations.
Encyclopedia of the use of "substances"
In the 1960s, in the wake of interest in different ways“expansion of consciousness”, in fairy tales about Alice, who is constantly changing, drinking from bottles and biting off a mushroom, and has philosophical conversations with a Caterpillar smoking a huge pipe, they began to see an encyclopedia of the use of “substances”. The manifesto of this tradition is the song "" by Jefferson Airplane, written in 1967:
One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don’t do anything at all “One pill and you grow, / Another and you shrink. // And the ones your mother gives you, // There's no use." .
Alice in Wonderland characters.
Alice
The heroine of this story. Her adventures begin with her fateful leap down the rabbit hole and the tale is an extended metaphor for the challenges she will face as she grows into an adult. She has an unusual composure for a child and she seems bright but makes many charming mistakes. She becomes more confident as the book progresses.
White Rabbit
Alice's adventures begin when she follows the White Rabbit down the rabbit hole. He is the messenger and herald at the court of the King and Queen of Hearts. He wears a waist coat and carries a pocket watch.
mouse
Alice meets a mouse while swimming in the pool of tears. He hates cats and dogs, and he starts telling Alice a disturbing story about being put on trial. He is very sensitive.
Bill
Lizard in the service of the White Rabbit. When Alice is giant and stuck in the white rabbit's house, she kicks Bill out of the chimney. Bill is also one of the jurors at the trial at the end of the book.
caterpillar
Wise, mysterious, and unwaveringly juicy, the Caterpillar gives Alice valuable advice on how to get by in Wonderland. He smokes a hookah and sits on a mushroom. He gives Alice a valuable gift of a mushroom (one side makes her bigger and the other makes her smaller), which gives her control over her size in Wonderland.
pigeon
The Pigeon is afraid for her eggs, and Alice bugs for the snake. Alice tries to reason with her, but Pigeon forces her off.
duchess
When Alice first meets the Duchess, she unpleasant woman nursing a baby and arguing with her cook. She is later put under sentence of execution. The Duchess looks different when Alice meets her a second time and then in the book, and Alice notices that the Duchess only speaks in pat morality.
prepare
Arguing and convinced that pepper is key element in all food. She first appears at the Duchess's house, where she throws everything in sight at the Duchess and the baby. Later, she is a witness at the Heart of Diamonds trial.
Baby
Duchess nurse's child. Alice is concerned about leaving a child in such a violent environment, so she takes him with her. He turns into a pig.
Cheshire Cat
Possessing extremely sharp claws and disturbingly sharp teeth, the Cheshire Cat is polite and polite despite its intimidating appearance. His face is fixed in an eerie smirk. He can make any and all parts of his body disappear and reappear.
hat merchant
A madman who always sits at tea, everyone, since time has stopped working for him. He takes his tea from the March Hare and Sonia. Alice is temporarily their guest, although she finds the event to be the stupidest tea party she has ever attended. Later, the nervous hatter is forced to be a witness at his trial.
March Hare
Playing with the expression, "Mad like a March Hare," Carroll puts him in the company of the Mad Hatter and the narcolepsy Dormouse. Their strange tea party is at the March Hare's house.
Dormouse
Another guest at the crazy tea party. He can't seem to stay awake. He is also one of the observers at the trial.
Two, five, and seven
These three unfortunate gardeners are trying to repaint the queen's roses, as they planted white roses by mistake and now fear for their lives. Like other people working for the queen, they are in uniform playing cards. When the queen orders their beheading, Alice hides them.
queen of hearts
Obnoxious, cruel, and loud, the queen admires the ordering of the execution, although everyone seems to get pardoned in the end. People of miracles are horrified by her. Although Alice initially thinks she is stupid, she grows frightened of her. In the end, however, Alice's gigantic size may endear herself to the Queen and her threats.
King of Hearts
Somewhat overshadowed by his noisy wife, the King of Hearts is an extremely dense figure. He makes terrible jokes and can't say anything smart. Alice outreasons him pretty well on trial.
griffin
The griffin, a mythical animal that is half eagle and half lion, is taken by Alice into the Sea of the False Turtle. He attended scuba school with the Mock Turtle.
False Turtle
The False Turtle is always crying while he and the Griffin tell stories loaded with puns. Its name is another pun (fictitious turtle soup is a soup that actually uses lamb as a meat ingredient).
Jack of Hearts
The unfortunate Knave is a man on trial, accused of stealing the Queen of Hearts' pies. The evidence against him is unfair.
Alice's sister
She helps solidify the story by appearing at the beginning, before Alice begins her adventures, and at the end, after Alice wakes up from her strange dream. Her presence lets us know what Alice is in Once again is in real world, in the comfort of home and family.
