What is the difference between Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass?

Answer 1

Through the Looking Glass was written as the sequel to Alice in Wonderland. They are both by Lewis Carroll, Alice is the main character in both, and both are set in fantastic realms where the usual laws of physics do not apply.

The writing style is the same in both books, and both are full of puns, word play, poems, and nonsense.

The basic plot line is the same for both books, each starts with Alice entering another world by some unusual means and awakening at the end to discover that her adventure has only been a dream.

Similar themes run through both books; in Alice in Wonderland, Alice has an identity crisis when she fears she may have been swapped for somebody else, and in Through the Looking Glass she loses her identity all together when she forgets her name.

Each book features game equipment as characters; in Alice in Wonderland there are living playing cards, in Through the Looking Glass, Chess pieces. Both books feature kings and queens as well as talking animals and fabulous creatures. And both feature the March Hare and the Hatter, although in the second book, the spelling of their names has been changed.

Answer 2

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is the first Alice book. It was published in 1865. Through the Looking Glass is the sequel. It is set six months later and was published in 1871.

In the first book Alice falls down a rabbit hole and lands in Wonderland. In the second, she goes through a mirror to a place referred to as the Looking-Glass world. This realm has different laws of physics from Wonderland and it appears that it is an entirely different place.

Through the Looking Glass is much more structured than Alice in Wonderland in which Alice basically drifts aimlessly through a series of unconnected events. The second book is based on a game of chess and has a precise narrative line, which is even spelled out at the beginning of the book, Alice starts at the first square and progresses to the eighth, whereupon she becomes a queen.

Utilising the theme of mirror reflectivity in the second book, Through the Looking Glass contains several opposites to Alice in Wonderland. Wonderland is chaotic while Looking-Glass world is more ordered. Alice in Wonderland is set in the spring while Through the Looking Glass is set in the autumn. And Alice in Wonderland begins with the happy, upbeat poem All in the Golden Afternoon while Through the Looking Glass ends with the wistful and nostalgic A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky.

Answer 3

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is the full title of the first version of Alice in Wonderland to be published. It is the book which most of us know today, and was published in 1865.

Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice Found There is the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It was published in 1871. Its title is usually shortened to Through the Looking Glass or Alice Through the Looking Glass.

Alice's Adventures Under Ground is the first version of the story which Lewis Carroll wrote down. It was a hand-written version of the story which he told to Alice Liddell on a boat trip in 1862. He gave it to her in 1864. After the success of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, he borrowed it from her and had a facsimile of it published in 1886.

The Nursery "Alice" is a simplified version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland which Carroll wrote for the under-fives. It was published in 1890.

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Alice in Wonderland is a name which is applied to almost any of the above. It is usually used as a shortened alternative to the title of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, but is also used to describe that book together with its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice Found There. It is also the title of many film and stage adaptations of the books (and it's also the name of a cocktail.)

Answer 4

"Alice in Wonderland" follows the adventures of Alice in a fantastical underground world filled with whimsical creatures and nonsensical events, while "Through the Looking Glass" sees Alice stepping through a mirror into a parallel universe of chess pieces and mirrored logic. The two books are separate stories with unique settings and characters, but both feature Alice's journey through imaginative and surreal landscapes.

Answer 5

Through the Looking Glass is the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.