It is believed by some people that since Sir John Tenniel's illustration of the scene in chapter 12 has the Knave with small club outline shapes on his blouse, the ultimate nonsense is that the King and the Queen do not even have the correct person standing trial, this isn't the Knave of Hearts at all, and whoever it is is unwilling to clarify the matter.
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Before a verdict can be reached for the Knave's innocence or guilt, Alice reaches full size and forcefulness, and then calls them "nothing but a pack of cards!" He denies he wrote a letter that mysteriously appears in the court, but that he already knows isn't signed.Īlice diverts the attention of the court by growing ever and ever larger and arguing more and more, lastly with the Queen over the concept of "sentence first-verdict afterwards". Neither is a convincing witness, and the Knave does not provide the King of Hearts with a very good self-defense. The Mad Hatter is called to give evidence but spends his entire time being nervous in front of the King and Queen of Hearts, and the Duchess's cook is summoned to tell the court what tarts are made of. The Knave rarely speaks during the trial. The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts, And took them quite away! The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, All on a summer day: The White Rabbit announces the charges as:
Alice eventually defends the Knave after the evidence becomes increasingly absurd and she is called as a witness. The Knave of Hearts is mentioned first in chapter 8, and later in chapters 11 and 12, which deal with his trial for a tart burglary in which the King of Hearts presides as judge. The Knave of Hearts is a character from the 1865 book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.Īlice's Adventures in Wonderland Michael Socha ( Once Upon a Time in Wonderland)
John Tenniel's illustration of the trial of the Knave of Hearts, with the King and Queen of Hearts above.Ĭrispin Glover ( Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland)
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