Complete Map

The complete map shows how the spaces of the narrative occupy discrete sections related to the square on the board that Alice now occupies. Within each square she encounters characters moving across a landscape in a highly intertextual form. The place names (toporefs) – 'the wood', 'the forest', the 'brooks' – are often iterations of the topoi. Like the mirror, then, the text looks in on itself. The dark forest also sets up a relationship with other imagined and fantastic spaces and characters of childhood: riddles, nonsense poetry, fairy tales and nursery rhymes. So, as the complete map makes clear, the world Alice finds through the looking-glass is one of play and of story.