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Themes In Frank Beddor's The Looking Glass Wars

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In Frank Beddor’s The Looking Glass Wars the story of Alice in Wonderland was taken to a completely different level. The story is switched around and now Alyss was born in the beautiful queendom of Wonderland and is forced to live in the busy country of England. Alyss is brought back to Wonderland, determined, ready to take back her throne. Beddor uses varieties of themes during The Looking Glass Wars that give the book a whole nother side of the story. For example, Genevieve, Dodge, and Redd show how they have, don’t have, give, and take away freedom of thought in their actions described in the book. One of the characters that show freedom of thought is Genevieve. Queen Genevieve’s daughter Alyss, had a very wild imagination and was always told to stop imagining wild things. She did not allow Alyss to think completely on her own. ‘“Birthday or not, Alyss.” Queen Genevieve said, “I don’t think it’s nice to show off.”’(13) Alyss used her imagination to amuse herself during times when she was mad, bored or just wanted to get attention. “Impatient with Jack of Diamonds for some childish indiscretion, she’d imagined his trousers filled with slick, squiggling qwormmies.” (14) Genevieve never gave Alyss the freedom to think on …show more content…

Genevieve had taken away much of Alysss’ use of imagination in the story. Dodge had his feelings for Alyss taken away by his duty of a guardsmen when he was a boy, but he tried to make Alyss want vengeance as much as he did. Redd never let any of the Wonderlanders think on their own and always put thoughts in their head. Freedom of thought in The Looking Glass Wars helps explain tremendously why Queen Genevieve was a better ruler than Redd and why. The story was told as if someone had turned it upside down and shaken it around, and it was filled with all kinds of different themes that made the story

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