![]() ![]() ![]() The White Knight talks about putting a right foot into a left shoe. Tweedledee and Tweedledum are mirror images of each other. Ideas are also inverted, which is plain in many of the conversations that Alice has with the characters encountered in the looking-glass world. Space/direction is inverted: Alice must walk away from where she wants to go in the garden in order to actually get there. Text is reversed: Alice reads the poem Jabberwocky backwards. Within the looking-glass, everything is backwards. The most apparent example of this theme is the looking-glass itself, which provides a reflection of the actual world for Alice to explore.
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