Wonderland is the main location in both novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. It appears unnamed in the first book. It's the main location also of Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Alice in Wonderland (2010).
In the Novel[]
- Wonderland is the curious place Alice discovers after falling down a rabbit hole in Lewis Carroll's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The inhabitants of Wonderland are all mad, according to the Cheshire Cat, and Alice meets the Mad Hatter, the White Rabbit, the Dodo, the Queen of Hearts, the March Hare, and many others over the course of her adventures there. In Carroll's novel, Wonderland includes a beautiful garden, an ocean, and a forest. Although the unusual characters and unexpected events in Wonderland sometimes perplex Alice, she often takes pleasure in her surroundings.
- In the novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, Alice discovers another part of Wonderland after going through a mirror, known as Looking-Glass Land. The inhabitants include the Red Queen, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, The White Knight, and many others.
Travel Guide[]
Geography[]
In the story, Wonderland is accessed by an underground passage, and Alice reaches it by travelling down a rabbit hole, possibly on the banks of the Thames between Folly Bridge and Godstow. While the location is apparently somewhere beneath Oxfordshire, Carroll does not specify how far down it is, and he has Alice speculate whether it is near the center of the earth or even at the Antipodes The land is heavily wooded and grows mushrooms. There are well-kept gardens and substantial houses, such as those of the Duchess and the White Rabbit. Wonderland has a seacoast, where the Mock Turtle lives.
Political System[]
The land is nominally ruled by the Queen of Hearts, whose whimsical decrees of capital punishment are routinely nullified by the King of Hearts. There is at least one Duchess.
Inhabitants[]
The main population consists of animated playing cards: the royal family (Hearts), courtiers (Diamonds), soldiers (Clubs), and servants (Spades). In addition, there are many talking animals. Among the characters Alice meets are:
- Bill the Lizard
- Caterpillar
- Cheshire Cat
- Dodo
- Dormouse
- Duchess
- Gryphon
- King of Hearts
- Knave of Hearts
- The Hatter
- March Hare
- Mock Turtle
- Pat
- Queen of Hearts
- White Rabbit
Media[]
- Wonderland is featured in Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland.
- Wonderland is featured in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. Here, it has been referred to as "Underland."Alice misheard the name as a child, believing it to be "Wonderland". Alice returns to Wonderland when the White Queen is challenging her sister, the Red Queen, for the crown of Underland.
- In the third volume of Shazam!, the Magiclands location of the Wozenderlands is the result of Dorothy Gale and Alice uniting the Land of Oz and Wonderland against the threat from the Monsterlands.
- Wonderland is featured in some episodes of Once Upon a Time. This is where the Evil Queen sent her mother Cora where she eventually became the current Queen of Hearts.
- In the show's spin-off called Once Upon a Time In Wonderland, Alice returns to Wonderland after being saved from Bethlem Royal Hospital by the Knave of Hearts and the White Rabbit where Alice plans to rescue her genie friend Cyrus from Jafar and the Red Queen. Some of the known locations in Wonderland include the Black Forest, the Boiling Sea, Jafar's Lair, Mallow Marsh, Mimsy Meadows, the Outlands, the Queen of Hearts' Palace, Tulgey Woods, Underland, Whispering Woods, and Red Queen's Palace.
- It appears in the novels the Looking Glass Wars. It is surrounded by sea, as shown in the glorious, completed map to your right. The map shows the Wondernations.
- In American McGee's Alice, Alice returns to Wonderland which, being a creation of Alice's mind, has been corrupted by her insanity. The new Wonderland is made up of nine provinces: Village of the Doomed, Wonderland Woods, the Pale Realm, Behind the Looking Glass, Queensland, etc.