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Red Queen | |
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Alice character | |
First appearance | Through the Looking-Glass |
Created by | Lewis Carroll |
Portrayed by | Helena Bonham Carter (Alice in Wonderland, Alice Through the Looking Glass) Emma Rigby (Once Upon a Time in Wonderland) |
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Gender | Female |
Occupation | Queen |
Spouse | Red King Will Scarlet (Once Upon a Time only) |
Nationality | Looking-Glass Land |
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.
Overview[edit]
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 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. 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.
Confusion with the Queen of Hearts[edit]
The Red Queen is commonly mistaken for the Queen of Hearts in 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:
I pictured to myself the Queen of Hearts as a sort of embodiment of ungovernable passion - a blind and aimless Fury.
The Red Queen I pictured as a Fury, but of another type; her passion must be cold and calm - she must be formal and strict, yet not unkindly; pedantic to the 10th degree, the concentrated essence of all governesses![1]
The 1951 Walt Disney animated film Alice in Wonderland perpetuates the long-standing confusion between the Red Queen and the Queen of Hearts. In the film, the Queen of Hearts delivers several of the Red Queen's statements, the most notable of which is based on her 'all the ways about here belong to me'. Both characters say this to suggest importance and possible arrogance, but in the Red Queen's case it has a double meaning since her status as a chess-queen means that she can move in any direction she desires.
In both American McGee's Alice and Tim Burton's film adaptation of the books, the characters are also combined, leading to further popular misconception. Also, Jefferson Airplane's song 'White Rabbit' contains the lyric 'and the Red Queen's off with her head', another instance of the two characters combined or mistaken for one another (as the phrase 'off with his/her head' is constantly uttered only by the Queen of Hearts in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland). However, American McGee's game implies that after Alice was put into the asylum the Queen of Hearts and Red Queen fused together.
Popular culture[edit]
Alice in Wonderland (2010)[edit]
The Red Queen | |
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Alice in Wonderland (2010 film) character | |
Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen in Tim Burton's 2010 adaptation | |
Created by | Lewis Carroll & Tim Burton |
Portrayed by | Helena Bonham Carter (adult) Leilah de Meza (child) |
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Full name | Iracebeth of Crims |
Family | King Oleron (father) Queen Elsemere (mother) Mirana of Marmoreal (sister) |
The 2010 live-action film Alice in Wonderland, fashioned as a sequel to the novel, features Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen .[2] Bonham Carter's head was digitally increased three times its original size on screen.[3]Bonham Carter's character is a combination of the Red Queen, the Duchess and the Queen of Hearts.[4] From the original Red Queen, this character gets only a relationship to the White Queen. Here the Red Queen is the older sister of the White Queen, and is jealous of her sister, whom her subjects genuinely love.
From the original John Tenniel illustrations of the Duchess, she gets a massive head in proportion to her body and a retinue of frog footmen. 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.
Most of her characteristics are taken from the Queen of Hearts, including:
- 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'. In the movie, the queen's moat is full of heads from her many decapitations. Carter has said that she based her performance on her toddler-aged daughter.[5]
- The use of animals as inanimate objects. Beside the flamingo mallets & hedgehog croquet balls from the original, this queen also uses them as furniture.[6]
- Having tarts stolen, although in this adaptation it was a starving frog footman who stole the tarts rather than the Knave of Hearts. 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.
- Employment of a fish footman and the White Rabbit.
- Heart motifs throughout her palace & a 16th-century-style costume associated with the queen of hearts playing card & the original John Tenniel illustrations for the Queen of Hearts.
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.
After the Jabberwocky is slain by Alice, the Red Queen's army stops fighting and following her orders. The White Queen banishes the Red Queen to Outland where nobody is to say a word to her or show her any kindness. The Knave of Hearts is also banished and tries to kill the Red Queen only to be thwarted by the Mad Hatter. 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.
In the video game adaptation of the film, she plays a minor role, first appearing as a mere illustration. She is not seen in person until near the end of the game, first playing croquet and beheading the hedgehogs she uses as balls whenever they miss their target at her castle, and then again both before and after the battle with the Jabberwocky.
In the sequel of the 2010 film, the Red Queen returns as the main antagonist and Bonham Carter reprises her role. In the film, the Red Queen currently lives in a castle made with vegetation and other things in Outland where she is still exiled. The Red Queen is the love interest of Time and the two ally: If he will give to her the powerful chronosphere and kill Alice she will give to him his love and they will rule the universe. When Alice steals the chronosphere to save Tarrant, the Red Queen orders Time to find her and kill her. The Red Queen's true past is discovered when Alice travels in time: as a child, she was continually bullied by her sister and her parents treated her like she was nothing and her sister was their preferred; one day the Red Queen was accused of eating tarts when it was her sister who ate them. During the tart fiasco, the Red Queen would fall and crash her head into a grandfather's clock where her head expands turning her into a crazy and hating person. At the day of the coronation, the Red Queen believed that Tarrant was laughing about her large head. When her father says that her sister will become the queen of Underland, she swears a horrible revenge on Tarrant. During the climax, both Queens are taken back in time where them witnessing the tart event causes a paradox. Once Wonderland was saved from destruction, the White Queen apologizes for lying about the tarts and the two sisters reconcile.
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland[edit]
The Red Queen appears in Once Upon a Time in Wonderland (a spin-off to Once Upon a Time) portrayed by Emma Rigby. She is a character distinct from the Queen of Hearts (Barbara Hershey), who was her tutor in magic. Like the Queen of Hearts and the Mad Hatter, the Red Queen is an émigré to Wonderland from the Enchanted Forest, having originally been a young woman named Anastasia, with whom Will Scarlet (the Knave of Hearts) was in love. The Red Queen featured as one of the show's main antagonists, alongside Jafar.
Pandora Hearts[edit]
Two characters from the manga/animePandora Hearts are based on the Red Queen, Alice and Lacie, though Lacie has more in common with the Red Queen than Alice, who also has connections with The Queen of Hearts.
American McGee's Alice and Alice: Madness Returns[edit]
The Red Queen is combined into the Queen of Hearts in the first game, American McGee's Alice. The names are used interchangeably. However, in the second game, Alice: Madness Returns, they are separated once more and the player meets the Queen of Hearts in her original form; the Red Queen is seen at the very beginning of the game as a flashback from Alice's memories of when The Red Queen reigned sovereign in Wonderland.
DC Comics[edit]
In the third volume of Shazam!, the Red Queen came from the Wozenderlands and is a member of the Monster Society of Evil. She was among it's members imprisoned in the Dungeon of Eternity within the Monsterlands until Mister Mind instructed Doctor Sivana on how to free them.[7]
Adaptive uses outside the arts[edit]
In science[edit]
- The Red Queen hypothesis is an evolutionaryhypothesis taken from the Red Queen's race in Through the Looking-Glass.[8]
- Science writer Matt Ridley popularized the term 'the red queen' in connection with sexual selection (See Evolution of sex for more details).
In business[edit]
- “Red Queen marketing” is defined as the business practice of launching new products in order to replace past failed launches while the overall sales of a brand may remain static or growth is less than fully incremental (Donald Kay Riker, 2009).[9]
References[edit]
- ^Gardner, Martin; Lewis Carroll (1998). The Annotated Alice. Random House. p. 206. ISBN978-0-517-18920-7.
- ^Kit, Borys (October 24, 2008). 'Crispin Glover joins Alice in Wonderland'. The Hollywood Reporter. Nielsen Business Media. Archived from the original on October 25, 2008. Retrieved October 25, 2008.
- ^Topel, Fred (December 19, 2008). 'Alan Rickman talks about Alice in Wonderland'. Crushable.com]. Retrieved February 21, 2010.
- ^'The inhabitants of 'Alice in Wonderland''. USA Today. Gannett Company. June 23, 2009. Retrieved January 9, 2010.
- ^Laws, Roz (March 5, 2010). 'Film: Johnny Depp on magic, madness and The Wiggles'. Birmingham Mail. Trinity Mirror Midlands Limited. Retrieved March 7, 2010.
- ^Salisbury, Mark (March 2010). 'Alice in Wonderland: The curious one that will get the kids screaming... Her real name is Raisie'. Total Film. Future Publishing.
- ^Shazam! Vol. 3 #11. DC Comics.
- ^'The Red Queen Principle'. Principia Cybernetica Web. 1993.
- ^OTC Product News, April 24, 2009
Further reading[edit]
- Bell, G. (1982). The Masterpiece Of Nature: The Evolution and Genetics of Sexuality. University of California Press, Berkeley, 378 pp.
- Lewis Carroll. 1960 (reprinted). The Annotated Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, illustrated by J. Tenniel, with an Introduction and Notes by M. Gardner. The New American Library, New York, 345 pp. Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. Lib.virginia.edu
- Dawkins, R. & Krebs, J. R. (1979). Arms races between and within species. Proceedings of the Royal society of London, B 205, 489–511.
- Francis Heylighen (2000): 'The Red Queen Principle', in: F. Heylighen, C. Joslyn and V. Turchin (editors): Principia Cybernetica Web (Principia Cybernetica, Brussels), Pespmc1.vub.ac.be
- Pearson, Paul N. (2001) Red Queen hypothesis Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, Els.net
- Ridley, M. (1995) The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature, Penguin Books, ISBN0-14-024548-0
- Leigh Van Valen. (1973). 'A new evolutionary law'. Evolutionary Theory 1: 1—30.
- Vermeij, G.J. (1987). Evolution and escalation: An ecological history of life. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
Alice: Madness Returns is the sequel to the third person action-adventure game American McGee's Alice.
Alice[edit]
- My Wonderland is shattered. It's dead to me.
- Another day, a different dream perhaps.
- Is it mad to pray for better hallucinations?
- I know what's real!
- I know I'm guilty of something, but punishment hardly ever suits the victims of a crime.
- Who set that bloody train in motion? Where has it come from?
- You've used me and abused me, but you will not destroy me!
- It's not a dream. It's a...memory. And it makes me sick!
- Wonderland has become quite strange. How is one to find her way?
- This is good for me. I'm not insane! I didn't kill my family. I am fine. I'm not mad. I am innocent, I mean, not guilty!
- I've not come back here looking for a fight.
- I want to forget! Who would choose to be alone, imprisoned by their broken memories? [bitter]
- I know their pain. I would assist. But is sanity required for the job?
- Blasted Cat!
Cheshire Cat[edit]
- Puurrfect. When you're not on edge, you're taking up too much space.
- Threats, promises and good intentions don't amount to action.
- Every picture tells a story. Sometimes we don't like the ending. Sometimes we don't understand it.
- Ah, Alice. We can't go home again. No surprise really. Only a very few find the way, and most of them don't recognize it when they do. Delusions, too, die hard with memory. Only the savage regard the endurance of pain as the measure of worth. Forgetting pain is convenient, remembering it: agonizing. But recovering the truth is worth the suffering and our Wonderland, though damaged, is safe in memory... for now.
- Abandon that hope! A new law reigns in this wonderland Alice, it's very rough justice all around. We're at risk here. You, be on your guard.
- A secret is only a secret when it is unspoken to another.
- Different denotes neither bad nor good, but it certainly means not the same.
- Only the insane equate pain with success.
- Only fools believe that suffering is just wages for being different.
- Every adventure requires a first step. Trite, but true, even here.
- The uninformed must improve their deficit, or die
- Only a few find the way, some don't recognize it when they do - some... don't ever want to.
- Haste makes waste, so I rarely hurry. But if a ferret were about to dart up my dress, I'd run.
- A reflection sometimes exposes more reality than the object it echoes.
Mad Hatter[edit]
- The world is upside-down, Alice. Inmates run the asylum - no offence - and worst of all... I'm left tea-less!
- The insolence, the arrogance the execrable table manners! They are destroyers of Wonderland! Defilers! Denuders! Derangers! Delightful...
- The law is just. Just a whisper away. Who knows how to measure rules? With a ruler! Cruel rules.
- Everything's a nail, is it, Miss Hammerhead? First it was your search, freighted with fear and fragmented memories. Now it's the train! Never time for tea. While your brain's on holiday, we're ruined! Now we're all mad here and that's a good excuse for going to hell in a teapot, but not for forgetting what your senses saw.
- Forgetting's just forgetting, except when it's not. Then they call it something else. I'd like to forget what you did. I've tried, but I can't.
The Queen of Hearts[edit]
- A good guest does not overstay, a perfect guest stays home!
- The train is trying to destroy all evidence of your past and especially the fire. Now, who would want that? Who benefits from your madness?
- There is no method in this madness!
- Authority must be obeyed, or it must be overthrown!
- What you claim not to know is merely what you've denied. You've recaptured your vagrant memories. What are you doing with them?
- You shouldn't ask questions you know the answer to, it's not polite.
- Make your survival mean something, or we are all doomed!
- I may survive here, but you're finished!
- You don't know your own mind!
Dr Bumby[edit]
- Memory is more often a curse than a blessing.
- The cost of forgetting is high.
- The past must be paid for.
- A flower's purpose is simple and immutable. Human purpose is fickle because it is a slave to memory. Memories must be strictly managed, Alice. Unproductive ones must be eliminated.
Other[edit]
- Nurse Witless: Still a mess, no surprise. Her kin roasted like chestnuts right before her eyes. Ten years in Rutledge Asylum wasted everyone's time! Dr Bumby won't do better. Still hauling out her questions: the fire, her memory. I deserve consideration, don't I? Who found her her new clothes? Who got her a place at Bumby's? Where she'd be without me? On the street, selling her backside! Likes my pigeons, though. She's doled out the odd pound or two. But I know what's worth more than that! Kept her secret, haven't I? Heard her say 'All died on my account, I couldn't save you!' I've told her my silence is for sale, cheap! I'm a good sort, really, not like her nanny, that uppity whore! Or that lawyer fellow Radcliffe [who] took her stupid rabbit! Need money... warned her I'd tell the coppers if she didn't make a 'donation' to my upkeep. She yells and goes off her head. Days she can't remember her name, what I heard.
- Dr Bumby: Come, Alice, am I not to be as much honoured and obeyed as the Queen? Is that asking too much? I want what she wanted. Give yourself over to that: trade the tentacles for the train. It's altogether a better ride. It's that or back to Rutledge!
- Nurse Witless: Never a kind word or reward for services rendered! Don't I deserve a bit of luck? Don't piss on what's right and owing to me, I say! Brought you out of the asylum, now you'll go back of your own accord!
- Nanny: I told your mother, dear. You're a distant and stubborn child, too content in her own world. Young women need to leave their wonderlands. The real world is not so 'wonderful'. You'll need to grow up. Perhaps some more time in 'care'?
- Radcliffe: You look decent enough. But appearances deceive: I know you for an unstable and violent person! I can't say I'm surprised you've been incarcerated in the asylum again. A long stay under supervision would serve you right!
- Dr. Wilson: 'Flight or Fight' implies a permanent choice. But 'flight' often just means putting the fight off to another day. Choose your battles wisely, Alice.
- Walrus' Poem:
- Sword and crown are worthless here,
- I invite everyone to dance
- Labourers, lawyers, church and gown all make their little prance.
- This life is full of random death
- And heaps of grief and shame,
- So few are soothed by 'accident'
- You want someone to blame.
- Fire, plague or strange disease,
- Drowned, murdered or, if you please,
- A long fall down the basement stairs
- None are expected, no one cares.
- I often must work very hard
- Sweat running down my skin,
- After the dance I then must rest
- And the eating can begin.
Dialogue[edit]
- Alice: At least the place I've landed is somewhat familiar
- Cheshire Cat: [Suddenly materializing] About time, too, Alice.
- Alice: Blasted cat! Don't try to bully me. I'm very much on edge!
- Cheshire Cat: Purrfect. When you're not on edge, you're taking up too much space.
- Alice: You are no help at all!
- Cheshire Cat: But you know I can be.
- Alice: I'll frighten myself when necessary, thanks very much. I was hoping to escape all that!
- Cheshire Cat: Abandon that hope! A new law reigns in 'this' Wonderland, Alice, it's very rough justice all round. We're at risk here, you be on your guard!
- Duchess: Ah it's you again, Alice. You may approach.
- Alice: Why would I do that? You want to eat me!
- Duchess: Yes, well you taught me manners and I've lost my taste for mad women; strictly a porcine diet for me. Everything is better with bacon, don't you agree? Of course you do. Now, there are pig snots scattered about. I heard a few behind the house; go fetch them for me. But take care of the pests that block your way. Pepper them up if they do. They need spice and you're just the dish -- ehm -- girl to season them for me. You'll find that grinder serviceable.
- Alice: Why not season your own pig parts?
- Duchess: Matters of priorities! My Alabaster skin needs protection from the disgusting creatures running amok amidst the environs. But one gets peckish! Look, all you have to do is listen for the oink, then shoot the snout! You may like the results. I certainly will.
- Alice: The Hatter's Domain, almost as I remember it!
- Cheshire Cat: Appearances, as you know better than most, can be deceiving, Alice. Much has changed since your last visit.
- Alice: Dr Bumby says change is 'constructive', that 'different' is good.
- Cheshire Cat: Different denotes neither 'bad' nor 'good', but it certainly means not the same! Find the Hatter, Alice. He knows more about 'different' than you.
- Alice: But does he know more about the difference between bad and good?
- Cheshire Cat: [noticing the Bolterflies attacking] Making friends, Alice? You're as randomly lethal and entirely confused as you ever were.
- Alice: I've managed without you so far, Cat. Return to whatever hovel's home to you, I'll call if I need you.
- Cheshire Cat: Predictably rash. It's not a question of 'if', Alice, it's 'when'. Now hold on, and as they say, 'shut up'! [he disappears]
- Alice: So typical.
- Mock Turtle: You'd better come aboard, Alice. We're doomed, of course!
- Alice: What? There's no hope, then?
- Mock Turtle: Oh, there's an infinite amount of hope, but not for us!
- Mock Turtle: Confounded beasts, they want my ship!
- Alice: I think you're more to their taste.
- Mock Turtle: [outraged] Never! We're almost relatives!
- Alice: You're related to soup, Admiral.
Queen Of Hearts Movie
- Caterpillar: A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step!
- Alice: A single step off London Bridge could end my journey...
- Caterpillar: Failure as your epitaph? I'd hoped you were more courageous!
- Alice: I've come all this way to find a simulacrum?!
- Caterpillar: If I had the time, I'd detail how often you prefer dealing with illusions rather than the real thing. Problems you refuse to deal with don't exist! You deny reality!
- Alice: That's not right! I know what's real!
- Caterpillar: No! You allow others to tell you what isn't real.
- Alice: My memories are shattered! This wicked train has ruined nearly all I can recall and Wonderland will perish completely as I lose my mind. So much has changed... I can't help Wonderland if I can't help myself!
- Caterpillar: Much has changed, but you've got it backwards: save Wonderland and you may save yourself! The Carpenter was on to something, but he was hiding from the real. Your goal is to accept it!
- Alice: Where should I go, then? What should I do?
- Caterpillar: The Queen must be served, Alice. The Queen, in all her guises, must always be served.
- Alice: How can she stem this growing corruption or assist my search? What does she know that I don't?
- Caterpillar: She is someone you once knew and loved. Time changes us all.
- Alice: Not all change is good!
- Caterpillar: Remember that when you find the Queen!
- Cheshire Cat: Back to admire your handiwork? Returning to the scene of the crime?
- Alice: It had to be done, Cat, you said so yourself! 'You and this Red Queen cannot both survive. She is a cancer in your body. Excise her or perish!'
- Cheshire Cat: Well, she was the face of evil in the heart of darkness...
- Alice: She didn't treat you too well last time, lost your head as I recall!
- Cheshire Cat: She was completely deranged. You picked up her crown, but now you've put it down. You must speak to her; what's left of her, anyway.
- Alice: The Red Kingdom's in ruins, but you're no better off!
- White King: When you defeated her, I tried to reclaim the castle, but I was set upon by her monstrosities. The malignant royal bitch still reigns.
- Alice: I'm here to petition her. I must get inside.
- White King: The only way in is through me. Sacrifices must be made.
- Alice: Those who say so usually mean 'they should be made by others'.
- White King: Cynicism is a disease! It can be cured. Once inside, beware of the outsized killer who patrols her domain. Never confront him; he is invincible. Now cut me loose: I'll show you the meaning of 'sacrifice'!
- Alice: [to the Queen] I was expecting someone else!
- Queen of Hearts: You don't know your own mind!
- Alice: It's nearly a complete stranger!
- Queen of Hearts: What you claim not to know is merely what you've denied. You've recaptured your vagrant memories: what are you doing with them?! You once rejected my attempts to control our lives forcefully, but now you've allowed another to succeed in my role!
- Alice: I won't miss your tentacles.
- Queen of Hearts: [infuriated] You'd prefer the hot stinking breath and unyielding attentions of a potent, unreasoning, unfeeling hellraiser?! I don't think so!
- Alice: Can you give me more than a warning? Caterpillar said you might help!
- Queen of Hearts: I'd need a better reason to respond than what's currently on offer!
- Alice: If you don't, we're all doomed!
- Queen of Hearts: Not doomed. Forgotten! I may survive here, but you're finished! You see the pattern of destruction, I know you do! The train is trying to destroy all evidence of your past and especially the fire. Now, who would want that? Who benefits from your madness?!
- Alice: The destruction of Wonderland... is the destruction of me?!
- Queen of Hearts: Indeed! And vice versa!
- Alice: I've set it in motion, I can derail it. This is good for me! I'm not insane! I didn't kill my family. I am fine. I'm not mad, I'm innocent - I mean, not guilty! [sees the tentacles wrapping around her] What's happening, what are you doing?!
- Queen of Hearts: The train must be stopped, but there's more to do. Your view conceals a tragedy. The whole truth you 'claim' to seek eludes you because you won't look at what's around you! [swallows Alice; Inside Alice's memories] There is no method in this madness!
- Dr Wilson: My professional opinion? Madness is often a treatable disease, though perhaps not in this case.
- Queen of Hearts: Authority must be obeyed, or it must be overthrown!
- Nurse Witless: 'Cruel to be kind', that's my technique as they say, but she's as mad as a hatter, poor dearie!
- Dr Bumby: Worst is over, and over, and over. Forget it, Alice - forget it!
- Insane Child: The unstable are more than merely mad: they have 'other parts'. The Dollmaker will deprive them of what remains of their deranged souls. They need care!
- Alice: I know their pain. I would assist, but is sanity required for the job?
- Insane Child: A limited quantity. You're not mad enough to be rejected. You're like them, of them in a way, but not them. I should say 'not us', for I'm them, but you are on your way. The way is clearly marked.
- Alice: I believe I know that way and I'd rather not travel further along it.
Alice Madness Returns Queen Of Hearts Deviantart
- Alice: My Lizzie... What is this train's destination?
- Queen of Hearts: Madness and Destruction. You shouldn't ask the questions you know the answers to, it's not polite. And that noise wasn't Lizzie talking in her sleep.
- Alice: Oh no... Poor Lizzie!
- Queen of Hearts: And there are no centaurs in Oxford. Make your survival mean something or we are all doomed!
- Caterpillar: Come to receive your punishment then?
- Alice: I know I'm guilty of something, but punishment never suits the victims of the crime.
- Caterpillar: Abuse is a crime the strong visit on the weak, and you're right, abusers are insufficiently punished for the damage they do. Those who witness abuse without seeking retribution for the harmed pay a penalty. Your own pain mitigates your failure to act earlier, but you may not yet have paid enough for witnessing the pain of others...
- Alice: Is there really so little hope?
- Cheshire Cat: There is even less. And if fear paralyzes you... we're lost.