“The players all played at once without waiting for turns, and quarrelled all the while at the tops of their voices, and in a very few minutes the Queen was in a furious passion, and went stamping about and shouting “off with his head!” of “off with her head!” about once in a minute. All those whom she sentenced were taken into custody by the soldiers, who of course had to leave off being arches to do this, so that, by the end of half an hour or so, there were no arches left, and all the players, except the King, the Queen, and Alice, were in custody, and under sentence of execution.”
- Carroll, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures Underground. London: Macmillan and Co., 1886.
“Queen: Hum… Who’s been painting my roses red? Who’s been painting my roses red? Who dares to taint, with vulgar paint, the royal flower bed? For painting my roses red, someone will lose his head!
Three: Oh, no! Your majesty! Please, it’s all his fault!
Two: Not me, your grace! The Ace, the Ace!
Queen: You?
Ace: No, Two!
Queen: The Deuce you say?
Two: Not me, the Three!
Queen: That’s enough! Off with their heads!
Cards: They’re going to lose their heads, for painting the roses red, it serves them right, they planted white, the roses should be red. Oh, they’re going to lose their head…”
- Alice in Wonderland. Walt Disney, 1951. https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=aBBL8axydx0.
“Mira [Queen of Hearts]: It looks like I lost the second set. ( gasps ) You are really talented! Okay, time for round three. Hmm... That was just exhausting. What say we have some tea, hmm?
Arisu: Tea?
Arisu: Forget about the tea. Let’s play the game.
Mira: But teatime is tradition. It’s proper croquet etiquette. Now, please, help yourselves.
Arisu: When this game is over, will we return to our world?
Mira: You’ll find out at the end of the game. Don’t talk to her, Arisu. [Referring to Usagi] Don’t pay any attention to her. Remember. We just need to finish.”
- Aso, Haro. Whole. Alice in Borderland 2, no. 8, 2020.
Illustrator’s Analysis by Ellen Lin
Alice’s Adventures Underground by Lewis Carroll was written in 1863 and became a classic novel of the 19th century world. Since the story was created, the story has been adapted through a variety of media throughout the years, ranging Heart’s garden. This prominent scene is the last place Alice visits in Wonderland before she awakes and returns back released through the years and each version has a specific target audience. This storybook focuses on how this scene Wonderland (1951) by Walt Disney Productions, and one of the most recent adaptations, Alice in Borderland (2020)
Alice’s
Adventures Underground by Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll’s original version of the Queen of Heart’s garden focuses on showing the chaotic nature of the the Queen’s garden is vague. There is a brief description about a rose tree at the entrance of the garden and rose trees both the text and in Carroll’s illustrations leave the landscape to the reader’s imagination. Rather, he focuses on portraying are frantically painting the white roses red in order to keep their heads attached to their bodies. Once the Queen enters while the King timidly follows her. As she demands for the croquet game to begin, the garden fills with chaos. None in Carroll’s illustration below, there is no focus on the setting, rather the setting is simply a battleground for the detailed character based piece of writing that uses dialogue, interactions and disorder of the characters to convey a scene while
Alice in Wonderland by Walt Disney Productions
Walt Disney’s 1951 adaptation, Alice in Wonderland, takes an amusing spin on the Queen of Hearts garden scene menacing atmosphere of the garden is depicted with the dark colours and predominantly flat landscape. Throughout for her to pass. The sharp corners of the maze field and the narrow pathways between the hedges communicate the feeling the focus of the scene as the animators enlarge the landscape in each shot and the characters become a smaller element chaotic element of the story is portrayed through the characters navigating through the zigzagged hedge maze.
Alice in Borderland by Haro Aso
One of the most recent adaptations of Alice in Wonderland is Alice in Borderland by Haro Aso. For the purposes Borderland centres around a young man named Arisu (Alice) whose city is hit by a meteor, putting him and many others all the games in Borderland if he wants to wake up from his coma and come back to life. In other words, failing in a Underground that targets an older audience and takes on a more psychological approach, which was highlighted in the and Disney’s version focused more on the landscape of the garden, Alice in Borderland does a mix of both. The garden sense of symmetry and the empty perfected space creates a subtle menacing feeling. When Arisu and Usagi (Bunny), tricking both of them into drinking a drugged tea. The tea makes them fall into a psychological warfare that prevents in the garden, with the Queen directly controlling everyone. In this version, the control is more subtle. In Alice in Borderland the unsettling atmosphere, and almost foreshadows the queen’s manipulative nature.
century. The story is a unique tale that is famous for its nonsensical events and its creation of a bizarre fantastical ranging from books, to films and TV shows. This storybook focuses on the scene where Alice enters the Queen of back to her reality. The scene at the Queen of Heart’s garden has been portrayed differently as adaptations have been was conveyed in Lewis Carroll’s original story compared to one of the story’s most famous adaptations, Alice in by Haro Aso.
scene through the characters rather than the landscape itself. In Alice’s Adventures Underground, the landscape of trees in the garden that the card soldiers are scrambling to paint red. However, the vague depiction of the landscape in portraying the chaotic nature of the scene through the characters. The moment Alice enters the garden, the card soldiers enters the scene, her role in the setting was shown as she continuously sentences people to have their heads chopped off of the players are waiting their turns or following rules and the Queen continues to sentence beheadings. As shown detailed illustrations of the characters recklessly playing croquet with no order whatsoever. Lewis Carroll’s novel is a while leaving the landscape vague for the readers to imagine.
scene and shows the chaotic nature of the scene through the character ’s interaction with the jagged hedge maze. The the story, Alice is fighting to escape Wonderland and return back home and the Queen’s garden is her last hurdle feeling of being trapped under the Queen’s order. In the Disney’s adaptation, it is clear that the landscape becomes element in the frame. From the moment Alice makes her way into the garden to the moment she is chased out of it, the purposes of this storybook, the following analysis will be about the TV show adaptation rather than the manga. Alice in others into a coma. Through this, Arisu is thrown into Borderland, the border between life and death. He must win game means he will not wake up from his coma. Alice in Borderland is a rough adaptation of Alice’s Adventures the Queen of Heart’s garden scene. Where Lewis Carroll’s original focuses on telling the story through characters garden is a large space with short cropped grass, bordered by white rose buses and neatly trimmed trees. The strong (Bunny), enter the garden, they are met with only the queen, who convinces them to play a rigged game of croquet before prevents them from escaping Borderland. This is a stark contrast from the original which uses the characters to tell the story Borderland, although the scene is still directed through the characters, the vast, strangely perfect garden helps create
Works Cited
Alice in Wonderland. Walt Disney, 1951. https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=aBBL8axydx0.
Aso, Haro. Whole. Alice in Borderland 2, no. 8, 2020.
Carroll, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures Underground. London: Macmillan and Co., 1886.
