As the Red Queen and the Knave of Hearts are carried off to their exile, the Red Queen repeatedly shouts "He tried to kill me" while the Knave of Hearts begged for the White Queen to have him killed. The Knave of Hearts is also banished and tries to kill the Red Queen only to be thwarted by the Mad Hatter. The White Queen banishes the Red Queen to Outland where nobody is to say a word to her or show her any kindness. The irritable, snobbish mother of Alice's potential husband, cast as a corresponding villain in the "real world" also resembles the Queen of Hearts when she fumes about her gardeners planting white instead of red roses.Īfter the Jabberwocky is slain by Alice, the Red Queen's army stops fighting and following her orders. Heart motifs throughout her palace and a 16th-century-style costume associated with the queen of hearts playing card and the original John Tenniel illustrations for the Queen of Hearts.Employment of a fish footman and the White Rabbit.Here, the queen is madly in love with the Knave of Hearts, who leads her army, and has executed her husband the King for fear that he would leave her. Having tarts stolen, although in this adaptation it was a starving frog footman who stole the tarts rather than the Knave of Hearts.Beside the flamingo mallets and hedgehog croquet balls from the original, this queen also uses them as furniture. The use of animals as inanimate objects.Carter has said that she based her performance on her toddler-aged daughter. In the movie, the queen's moat is full of heads from her many decapitations. A quickness to anger, including the famous phrase "Off with his/her/their/your head!" Her first name, Iracebeth, is a play on the word " irascible".Most of her characteristics are taken from the Queen of Hearts, including: The White Queen theorizes that the movie's Red Queen has a tumor pressing against her brain, explaining both her large head and her deranged behaviour. Here the Red Queen is the elder sister of the White Queen, and is jealous of her sister, whom her subjects genuinely love.įrom the original John Tenniel illustrations of the Duchess, she gets a massive head in proportion to her body and a retinue of frog footmen. From the original Red Queen, this character gets only a relationship to the White Queen. īonham Carter's character is a combination of the Red Queen, the Duchess and the Queen of Hearts. Bonham Carter's head was digitally increased three times its original size on screen. The 2010 live-action film Alice in Wonderland, fashioned as a sequel to the novel, features Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen. Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen in Tim Burton's 2010 adaptation Carroll, in his lifetime, made the distinction between the two Queens by saying: The two share the characteristics of being strict queens associated with the color red, while their personalities are very different. The Red Queen is commonly mistaken for the Queen of Hearts from the story's predecessor, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The red queen is often said to be based on the Liddel’s (the family Carrol worked for) governess, Mary Prickett.Ĭonfusion with the Queen of Hearts In doing this, Alice presents an end game, awakening from the dream world of the looking glass, by both realizing her hallucination and symbolically "taking" the Red Queen in order to checkmate the Red King. When that celebration goes awry, Alice turns against the Red Queen, whom she "considers as the cause of all the mischief", and shakes her until the queen morphs into Alice's pet kitten. Later, in Chapter 9, the Red Queen appears with the White Queen, posing a series of typical Wonderland/Looking-Glass questions ("Divide a loaf by a knife: what's the answer to that?"), and then celebrating Alice's promotion from pawn to queen. As a queen in the game of chess, the Red Queen is able to move swiftly and effortlessly. Despite this, their initial encounter is a cordial one, with the Red Queen explaining the rules of chess concerning promotion-specifically that Alice is able to become a queen by starting out as a pawn and reaching the eighth square at the opposite end of the board. With a motif of Through the Looking-Glass being a representation of the game of chess, the Red Queen could be viewed as an antagonist in the story as she is the queen for the side opposing Alice. She is often confused with the Queen of Hearts from the previous book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), although the two are very different. The Red Queen is a fictional character and the main antagonist in Lewis Carroll's fantasy 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass. Helena Bonham Carter ( Alice in Wonderland, Alice Through the Looking Glass)Įmma Rigby ( Once Upon a Time in Wonderland)
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