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The Theme Of Evil In Frank Beddor's The Looking Glass Wars

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In Frank Beddor’s The Looking Glass Wars, he retells the original story of Alice in Wonderland. He turns the whole story backwards, and makes Princess Alyss’s original home Wonderland instead of London. She then must leave Wonderland because her mother, Queen Genevieve, must protect her daughter Alyss from Queen Redd, who is about to take over the throne. While Alyss is running away, she ends up in England and starts a new life. After living in England for 13 years, Alyss returns home, defeats Queen Redd, and regains her mother’s throne. By changing the story Beddor has made more violent scenes. For example the situations of good vs evil in this book, much describing how good always overcomes evil Redd, Alyss, and Alyssians are great examples for this topic.
In this book, one of the characters who shows good always overcomes evil is Redd. “‘Loyal subjects, there is a pretender to the throne in our midst. She calls herself Alyss Heart.’” This is Redd trying to tell the people of wonderland that Alyss is a bad person, and that they should all turn on her because Redd knows she will never win the people against Alyss. Having the people on your side in this book is very important, because they choose who they want to be queen at the end and you …show more content…

if there are people in this world that are bad you can beat them by being good and so that comes into play as good will always overcome evil. As you could see in the Looking Glass Wars Redd was an example of evil and she was defeated by good. Alyss and the Alyssains are examples of good and they always defeated Red who was evil. The theme in this book shows up a lot because, Redd always gets defeated by good and there are other characters that do it too but Redd is the main one. If there is ever a conflict with other people let them be the bad guy so the will get in trouble and you will be

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