White Knight (Through the Looking-Glass)

White Knight
Alice character
White Knight.jpg
1871 illustration by John Tenniel
First appearanceThrough the Looking-Glass
Created byLewis Carroll
In-universe information
SpeciesHuman
GenderMale
OccupationKnight
NationalityLooking-Glass Land

The White Knight is a fictional character in Lewis Carroll's 1871 book Through the Looking-Glass. He represents the chess piece of the same name. As imagined in John Tenniel's illustrations for the Alice stories he has echoes of John Millais's 1857 painting A Dream of the Past: Sir Isumbras at the Ford.

Storyline

The White Knight saves Alice from his opponent (the Red Knight). He repeatedly falls off his horse and lands on his head, and tells Alice of his inventions, which consists of things such as a pudding with ingredients like blotting paper, an upside down container, and anklets to guard his horse against shark bites. He recites a poem of his own composition, 'A-Sitting on a Gate', (but the song's name is called 'Haddocks' Eyes') and he and Alice depart.

Film incarnations



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