White Knight (Through the Looking-Glass)


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 .

Storyline

The White Knight saves Alice from his opponent . 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', and he and Alice depart.

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