The Red Queen is a fictional character in Lewis Carroll's fantasy 1871
novel Through the Looking-Glass. 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.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. Despite this, their initial
encounter is a cordial one, with the Red Queen explaining the rules of
chess concerning promotionâ€"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. As a queen in the game of chess, the
Red Queen is able to move swiftly and effortlessly.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. Despite this, their initial
encounter is a cordial one, with the Red Queen explaining the rules of
chess concerning promotionâ€"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. As a queen in the game of chess, the
Red Queen is able to move swiftly and effortlessly.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. 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. 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.The Red Queen is commonly mistaken for the Queen of Hearts from
the story's predecessor, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The two
share the characteristics of being strict queens associated with the
color red. However, their personalities are very different. Indeed,
Carroll, in his lifetime, made the distinction between the two Queens
by saying: Red Queen (Through the Looking-Glass) Top Movies & Young Movies