Through the looking glass: the framing of law through popular imagination

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Notes

¹Carroll (1865), Chapter 10: ‘The Lobster Quadrille’.

²In 1865, it was first published by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, under the pen name Lewis Carroll.

³ Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (Macmillan, 1871) was Lewis Carroll's sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

⁴Alice's adventures have been the subject of regular theatrical performances on London's West End, with the 150th anniversary year providing the necessary impetus for several productions putting their ‘unique’ spin on her tumble down the rabbit hole. See, for example: Les Enfants Terribles's Alice's Adventures Underground which occupies the Vaults under Waterloo station to bring the story to life; or the new musical wonder.land (created, produced and scored by Blur's Damon Albarn) for the National Theatre in London which portrays a coming-of-age adventure that depicts Alice navigating the boundaries of an online world.

⁵See, for example, Potter who illustrates the common practice of judges employing rhetoric that is redolent of Wonderland: Potter (2006–2007).

⁶ Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass have been adapted multiple times for cinema and the small screen. The most popular and notable versions have been the 1950s Disney animation Alice in Wonderland (Walt Disney Pictures, 1951), and the most recent 3D cinematic version Alice in Wonderland (Walt Disney Pictures, 2010) released in March 2010, directed by Tim Burton and famously starring Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter. A sequel to this Tim Burton version, Alice Through the Looking Glass (Walt Disney Pictures, 2016) is scheduled for release in 2016.

⁷A distorted and extended storyline of Alice seeking revenge for her parent's murder is actually the subject of two highly successful video games in the survival horror genre: American McGee's Alice (Electronic Arts, 2000) and Alice: Madness Returns (Electronic Arts, 2011). In these videogames, Alice's parents were killed in an arson assault on her family home, and she was committed to an insane asylum mistakenly believing that she caused the fire. Alice eventually discovers the truth and seeks revenge on the perpetrator.

⁸Carroll (1871), Chapter 2: ‘The Garden of Live Flowers’.

⁹See, for example, the confusing explanation of logic from Tweedledee: ‘Contrariwise,’ continued Tweedledee, ‘if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.’: Carroll (1871), Chapter 4: ‘Tweedledum and Tweedledee’.

¹⁰For example, see the Red Queen's disordering philosophy of adjudication: ‘Sentence First: Verdict Afterwards’: Carroll (1865), Chapter 10; see also Chapter 5: ‘Wool and Water’: ‘For instance, now … there's the King's Messenger. He's in prison now, being punished: and the trial doesn't even begin till next Wednesday: and of course the crime comes last of all.’

¹¹Carroll (1865), Chapter 6: ‘Humpty Dumpty’ (stated by Humpty Dumpty himself).

¹²Siemann (2012), p 430.

¹³Siemann (2012), p 431.

¹⁴Carroll (1865), Chapter 10: ‘Who Stole the Tarts’.

¹⁵Crofts (2015), [p 374].

¹⁶Crofts (2015), [p 373].

¹⁷Giddens (2015), [p 398].

¹⁸Giddens (2015), [p 398].

¹⁹Giddens (2015), [p 395].

²⁰Mitchell (2015), [p 446].

²¹Siemann (2012), p 433.

²²Carroll (1871), Chapter 5: ‘Wool and Water’.