A short review on Through the Looking Glass. What makes us look
into mirrors and want to enter into the world that it reflects?
There was something enough for Lewis Carroll when he gave Alice
a chance to enter into another world and move towards becoming a
queen at the end of a figurative chessboard. One can either rack
their brains on the symbolism or accept the fact it may have
been the author’s design to throw as many backward situations as
possible enough to perhaps perplex Alice so that she would want
to run home. In other words Lewis purposely created all these
contradictory characters so that the girl who wanted to escape
her strict home would love to return, especially when the real
world offers logical reasons for being. Of course I am referring
to logical as it concerns the child. The drive of the story is
that Alice must reach the end square of her fantasized patchwork
land. I take it that the child wants to be recognized as
deserving something from the adult world. The way that she has
to behave i