Syuzhet Map

In contrast to the topoi map, which when given in overlay effectively provides an aerial view, the syuzhet map can be seen as representing Alice’s journey through the text from her perspective, moving with her immersively from space to space. Beginning in the ‘drawing-room’ Alice’s movement can be traced through the main loop of key spaces – from square to square – and around the micro settings contained within them (‘shop’, ‘river’, ‘wood of no name’) then back out of the mirror into the 'drawing-room'. The smaller loops demonstrate the ways in which Alice’s progress is intermittently interrupted by spatio-temporal digressions that divert her path through Looking-Glass world. Overall, despite the underlying gridded form of the chessboard, the ring topology registers the book’s circular narrative – ending where it begins and not really going anywhere.