How does Alice look from Alice in Wonderland?

Answer 1

A very large, chunky, deformed lady who looks like she smokes 7 packs an hour.

In Lewis Carroll's book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the Duchess is described as being "very ugly" and as having a "sharp little chin".

Answer 2

People may associate the Duchess with the phrase 'Off with his head', however this was not said by the Duchess, but by the Queen of Hearts. But the Duchess does, at one point, say, "Talking of axes...chop off her head!"

The Duchess is probably best known for this rhyme

Speak roughly to your little boy.

And beat him when he sneezes:

He only does it to annoy,

Because he knows it teases.

Answer 3

The Unnofficial DisneyWiki describes the Disney Alice as between ten and twelve years old, fair skinned with blonde hair, a black ribbon in her hair with a bow top centered, blue eyes, wearing a light blue dress with a white pinafore apron, white tights (or stockings) over bloomers and an underskirt and black Mary Jane shoes.

Answer 4

In the book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the rabbit is described as, "a White Rabbit with pink eyes." He is wearing a waistcoat with a watch in the pocket. At one point he is carrying a pair of gloves and a fan and during the trial he is holding a Trumpet in one hand and a scroll of parchment in the other.

In his article Alice on the Stage, Lewis Carroll describes the Rabbit in this way, "...`elderly', `timid', `feeble', and `nervously shilly-shallying'...I think the White Rabbit should wear spectacles. I am sure his voice should quaver, and his knees quiver, and his whole air suggest a total inability to say `Bo' to a goose!"

For two of Tenniel's illustrations of the White Rabbit follow the related links, below.

Answer 5

The Duchess is a character Alice meets in Chapter Six Pig and Pepper and again in Chapter Nine The Mock Turtle's Storyin Lewis Carroll's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. She is described as being "very ugly" and "savage." In Chapter Six she is quite brutal and violent but in Chapter Nine she is in a better mood and famously spends much of her conversation with Alice finding morals in things. She is an enemy to the Queen of Hearts and in between chapters six and nine, she is sent to prison for boxing the Queen's ears. She is also the owner of the Cheshire Cat.

It is thought that Tenniel's illustration of the Duchess may well be based on Quentin Matysys' painting Ugly Duchess, which pupports to be a painting of the notoriously unattractive Duchess Margeret of Carinthia and Tyrol (although the painting was made two hundred years after she was alive.) See related links below.

Those who adhere to the idea that Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a metaphor for the War of the Roses believe that the Duchess represents Elanor, Duchess of Gloucester who was an enemy of the Lancastrian Queen Margeret, wife of Henry VI, who is thought to be represnted by the Queen of Hearts.

The Duchess does not appear in Disney's 1951 animated film nor Tim Burton's 2010 movie.

Answer 6

The Duchess could be described as capricious and mercurial as her personality varies greatly on the two occasions that we meet her in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, something which Alice decides is because of the large quantites of pepper in her kitchen.

Alice considers that, when she first met her, the Duchess was "savage" and "hot tempered," and not without reason. She is aggressive and foul tempered; she addresses her baby as "pig," she violently shakes it several times and throws it at Alice when she has to get ready to go and play croquet.

She is impolite at best, and threatening and hostile at worst. She informs Alice that, "You don't know much...and that's a fact." And orders her cook to chop off Alice's head.

There is further evidence of the Duchess' violent nature as, when the Queen wishes to to speak to her at the croquet game, we learn that she has been imprisoned for boxing the Queen's ears.

However, when we meet her again at the croquet match, her personality is drastically different. She is described as being in "a pleasant temper," and is warm and affectionate to Alice, addressing her as "you dear old thing," and linking arms with her as they walk together. In fact, she is rather overly affectionate, squeezing Alice and suggesting that she should put her arm around her waist, something Alice does not want to happen.

She is pleasant and agreeable, seeming "ready to agree to everything that Alice said," but is perhaps rather opinionated and sanctimonious insisting, as she does, on finding morals in everything.

Answer 7

Lewis Carroll didn't say what Alice's hair is like except when she complains that it, "doesn't go in ringlets at all," and when the Tiger-Lily in the garden of live flowers says that her 'petals' are, "tumbled about anyhow."

In the most famous images of Alice, John Tenniel's and Disney's, she has long blond hair, swept back from the forehead, worn loose. She is sometimes shown with a ribbon or hair-band.

The real Alice, Alice Liddell, had dark hair, cut into a short bob with a fringe or bangs.

Answer 8

Alice is typically depicted as a young girl with blonde hair, wearing a blue dress and white apron in illustrations of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll. She is often shown with a curious and innocent expression, highlighting her adventurous spirit.

Answer 9

Yes. The Duchess is one of the characters in Lewis Carroll's book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. However, she does not appear in the 1951 Disney adaptation.