Examples Of Conflict In The Looking Glass Wars

The quote ‘’The more conflict and contrast you have with a character makes it more interesting’’(Chris Hemsworth) relates to the story The Looking Glass Wars by showing the conflict between Alyss and Redd throughout the whole story. While the conflict builds for Alyss to return, Alyss builds her strength with the Alyssians to defeat Redd. In The Looking Glass Wars, Frank Beddor uses conflict to portray Alyss as a naive, mischievous, and endearing child into a furious, vicious, and smart young woman so that she can lead the Alyssians in an attack to defeat Redd and take back her queendom.

At the beginning of the novel, Princess Alyss is characterized as mischievous, endearing, and naive. Alyss loved to play pranks on other people such as” Dropping

Dodgson makes a book about Alyss mocking her and makes Alyss mad when she refuses to talk to him when he’s at his house “‘Alyss comes downstairs Liddel calls” Dodgson is here’Alyss says’ I won’t see him”’(Beddor 150). While Alyss gets married, the coming of the cat and the card assassins ruin her wedding leaving her powerless, and in danger.”’ The cat and card assassins fall onto the train of Alice’s gown”(Beddor 204). When Alyss is standing hopelessly while the cat is attacking her all of a sudden, a man comes to save her” The man with the scars came sprinting toward her from periphery, pushing her out of the way just as The Cat landed and smashed the altar with a downward swing of his thigh-sized arms. Alyss drives Alyss to defeat Redd after this event, driving her to kill her in the end. Hatter finds the book that Dodgson made of Alyss, which helps him later find Alyss while the cat attacks Alyss. Alyss marries Leopold in London. Later, Alyss finds out she wasn’t dancing with Leopold but rather with Dodge. “Who is hiding behind the mask?’Alyss dances with him later saying” Do I know you? Dodge furthermore says” You knew me once”(Beddor 149). After this period of time in London, Alyss is back out for revenge against Redd and sets out on a journey to take back her

Alyss is training with Hatter to get her imagination powerful once was when she finds out how to use it as she once could” While she was in this trance-like state, a large glass cover akin to one you might see over a cake in a bakery formed in the air”(Beddor 271). Alyss is in the Looking Glass when all of a sudden instead of seeing herself she sees a reflection of Redd” She glimpsed herself in a looking glass. Instead of seeing her reflection, it was Redd”(Beddor 309)After all of this time, Alyss has trained she is in the final battle with Redd “With Redd’s scepter only a few Wonderland inches from her neck, she blew hard at the evil queen, sending her flying backward”(Beddor 345). During the fight between Alyss and Redd, Alyss’s emotions build up for her thinking back on her family; but ultimately stays calm to try to finish the fight” Alyss's anger informed her, but it didn't rule her, although she seemed willing to beat Redd against the walls until the malicious woman died- a rather brutal death had it come to pass”(Beddor