Through the Looking-Glass

by

Lewis Carroll

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The Sheep Character Analysis

The White Queen turns into the Sheep in the Fifth Square. The Sheep is elderly and knits with 14 pairs of knitting needles at once. She continues to knit and shouts rowing terms as Alice rows along a river. She meanly laughs at Alice when Alice doesn't understand the rowing terms.

The Sheep Quotes in Through the Looking-Glass

The Through the Looking-Glass quotes below are all either spoken by The Sheep or refer to The Sheep. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Youth, Identity, and Growing Up Theme Icon
).
Chapter 5: Wool and Water Quotes

"The prettiest are always further!" she said at last, with a sigh at the obstinacy of the rushes in growing so far off as, with flushed cheeks and dripping hair and hands, she scrambled back into her place, and began to arrange her new-found treasures.

What mattered it to her just then that the rushes had begun to fade, and to lose all their scent and beauty, from the very moment that she picked them? Even real scented rushes, you know, last only a very little while—and these, being dream-rushes, melted away almost like snow, as they lay in heaps at her feet—but Alice hardly noticed this [...]

Related Characters: Alice (speaker), The Sheep
Related Symbols: Rushes
Related Literary Devices:
Page Number: 171
Explanation and Analysis:
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The Sheep Quotes in Through the Looking-Glass

The Through the Looking-Glass quotes below are all either spoken by The Sheep or refer to The Sheep. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Youth, Identity, and Growing Up Theme Icon
).
Chapter 5: Wool and Water Quotes

"The prettiest are always further!" she said at last, with a sigh at the obstinacy of the rushes in growing so far off as, with flushed cheeks and dripping hair and hands, she scrambled back into her place, and began to arrange her new-found treasures.

What mattered it to her just then that the rushes had begun to fade, and to lose all their scent and beauty, from the very moment that she picked them? Even real scented rushes, you know, last only a very little while—and these, being dream-rushes, melted away almost like snow, as they lay in heaps at her feet—but Alice hardly noticed this [...]

Related Characters: Alice (speaker), The Sheep
Related Symbols: Rushes
Related Literary Devices:
Page Number: 171
Explanation and Analysis: