Alice In Wonderland & Through The Looking Glass characters

Appears from the start

A curious, self-possessed child who grows bored beside her sister and follows a talking rabbit down a hole. She tries to understand the strange hall she reaches by drawing on lessons and manners from home.

Appears from the start

A talking, waistcoated rabbit whose anxious remarks about being late draw Alice underground. The sight of him consulting a pocket watch is so extraordinary that she follows without considering how she will return.

First appears in chapter 5

A blue, hookah-smoking creature who questions Alice closely about who she is. His calm, cryptic advice helps her learn how different sides of a mushroom can alter her size.

First appears in chapter 6

A noblewoman of Wonderland whose chaotic household includes a pepper-filled kitchen and a constantly sneezing baby. She is violent and argumentative when Alice first meets her.

First appears in chapter 6

The Duchess's grinning cat, able to appear and disappear a piece at a time. He directs Alice toward the March Hare and the Hatter and calmly explains that madness is normal in Wonderland.

First appears in chapter 7

An excitable hare who hosts a perpetual tea party outside his house. He and the Hatter greet Alice with riddles, contradictions, and abrupt changes of place.

First appears in chapter 7

A sharp-tongued participant in the endless tea party, where Time has stopped at six o'clock. He poses an unanswered riddle and repeatedly disputes Alice's attempts to reason with the company.

First appears in chapter 8

Wonderland's imperious ruler, quick to order executions whenever anyone displeases her. Alice meets her among living playing cards and is drawn into the Queen's disorderly croquet game.

First appears in chapter 9

A creature with an eagle's head and wings and a lion's body. At the Queen's direction he escorts Alice to hear the Mock Turtle's history.

First appears in chapter 9

A melancholy being with a calf's head and a turtle's body who claims to have once been a real turtle. He tells Alice about an eccentric seaside education and demonstrates its dances with the Gryphon.

First appears in chapter 14

A commanding chess queen whom Alice meets among the living flowers beyond the mirror. She explains the chessboard countryside and tells Alice how a pawn may travel to the eighth square and become a queen.

First appears in chapter 16

One of two identical brothers Alice finds standing together. He and Tweedledee recite, argue, and prepare for battle over a broken rattle before a monstrous crow interrupts them.

First appears in chapter 16

Tweedledum's identical brother and partner in elaborate contradictions. The pair tell Alice that she exists only inside the sleeping Red King's dream, then stage a quarrel that never reaches a fight.

First appears in chapter 16

A sleeping chess king encountered near Tweedledum and Tweedledee. The brothers claim that Alice and the surrounding world are parts of his dream, a possibility Alice strongly resists.

First appears in chapter 17

An untidy, distracted chess queen who explains that memory can run in both directions in the mirror world. Her shawl, brooch, and knitting needles change as she and Alice cross into the next square.

First appears in chapter 18

A large egg-shaped figure seated precariously on a narrow wall. Confident in his control over words, he interprets a difficult poem for Alice and insists that names and meanings are matters of authority.

First appears in chapter 20

A courteous but impractical chess knight who repeatedly falls from his horse while escorting Alice toward the final brook. He invents elaborate devices, shares a melancholy song, and becomes her fondest companion in the mirror world.