Character guide
Who's who in Through the Looking-Glass by Carroll, Lewis: meet the 7 main characters, see how they connect, and open a detailed profile for each.
7 illustrated profiles
Also known as the Queen
A strict and authoritative figure who governs the landscape of the looking-glass world. She is much more commanding and intimidating than the White Queen.
As drawn: A tall, stately and severe chess queen, half a head taller than Alice, upright in bearing, with a spiked crown all round her head and a stiff regal dress.
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Also known as the Queen
A gentle, somewhat scatterbrained, and ethereal character who moves through the world with a dreamy, distracted demeanor.
As drawn: A dishevelled, helpless-looking chess queen with a frightened expression, her hair escaping in every direction with loose pins working out of it, a shawl slipping from her shoulders and everything about her crooked.
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Also known as one of the twins, the twin
One of the identical twin brothers who encounter Alice; they are mischievous and prone to reciting nonsensical poems.
As drawn: A fat little man, round and short, standing with an arm round his brother's neck, with DUM embroidered on his collar.
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Also known as one of the twins, the twin
The twin brother of Tweedledum, known for his playful and somewhat argumentative personality.
As drawn: A fat little man, round and short, the exact double of his brother, with DEE embroidered on his collar.
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An eccentric, egg-shaped character who engages Alice in a debate about the meaning of words.
As drawn: A great smooth egg with a face, exactly like an egg in shape, seated cross-legged like a Turk on the top of a very narrow high wall, wearing a cravat or belt about his middle.
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Also known as the White Knight, the Knight
A gentle, clumsy, and highly inventive character who attempts to help Alice but is prone to falling off his horse.
As drawn: A gentle, mild-faced knight dressed in tin armour that fits him very badly, with a queer-shaped little deal box fastened upside-down across his shoulder and its lid hanging open, and a shock of untidy hair.
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Also known as the King, the sleeping King
A character listed in the dramatis personae as part of the Red side of the game.
As drawn: A chess king fast asleep and snoring, wearing a tall red night-cap with a tassel on the end.
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Lewis Carroll’s fantasy fiction sends Alice into a world shaped like a chessboard, where ordinary rooms, books, games, and household objects become strange and animate. From a cozy room beside a snowy window, her habit of pretending carries her through the looking-glass into a reversed counterpart of home, complete with living chess pieces and a game whose moves map the adventures ahead. The result is a journey through imaginary places filled with curious figures, playful rules, and transformations.
The voice is witty, observant, dreamlike, and gently mischievous, shifting between intimate conversation and elaborate nonsense while treating the impossible with perfect seriousness. Carroll’s Victorian prose combines nursery-tale warmth with intricate wordplay, formal riddles, theatrical entrances, and the logic of a chess problem. It will appeal to children and adults who enjoy imaginative fantasy, talking creatures, linguistic puzzles, and stories that invite make-believe rather than explain every marvel. Alice’s candid curiosity and determined questioning give the book an engaging guide through its topsy-turvy world.
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