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24-516: White Queen may refer to: Literature and entertainment [ edit ] White Queen ( Through the Looking-Glass ) , a character in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass (1871) White Queen (novel) , a 1991 novel by Gwyneth Jones , the first of her Aleutian Trilogy. The White Queen (novel) , a 2009 novel by Philippa Gregory based on

48-521: A flawless complexion and air of elegance, grace and perfection. In the movie, Iracebeth has banished her sister from "Underland" out of jealousy; Mirana, having taken a vow never to harm another living thing, is helpless to fight back and must wait years for the "Frabjous Day," when a "champion" will arrive and slay the Jabberwocky , Iracebeth's fearsome pet. That champion arrives in Alice ( Mia Wasikowska ), now

72-511: A holographic computer from Resident Evil: Extinction In comics [ edit ] Emma Frost or the White Queen, a Marvel Comics character Adrienne Frost or the White Queen, a Marvel Comics character Sat-Yr-9 or the White Queen, a Marvel Comics character Amanda Waller or the White Queen, a DC Comics character Valentina Vostok or the White Queen, a DC Comics character Other [ edit ] White Queen tomato ,

96-533: A tomato variety Queen (chess) Claude Njiké-Bergeret , development aid volunteer Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title White Queen . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=White_Queen&oldid=1175055494 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

120-544: A young woman, who initially thinks she is having a recurring dream. By the film's climax , Alice accepts her destiny and slays the Jabberwocky, restoring rulership of Wonderland to the White Queen. Mirana banishes her sister and bids Alice goodbye. After Alice remarks that Mirana cannot imagine the horror that goes on inside the Red Queen's castle, Mirana - whilst holding a knife - coldly replies, "Oh yes, I can." Mirana apparently

144-530: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages White Queen (Through the Looking-Glass) Along with her husband the White King , she is one of the first characters to be seen in the story. She first appears in the drawing room just beyond the titular looking-glass as an animate chesspiece unable to see or hear Alice , the main character. The Queen

168-600: Is entirely different to Carroll's novel and centers on the origin of Mad Hatter and the feud between Mirana and Iracebeth. At the end of the film, the sisters make amends. Jam tomorrow Jam tomorrow (or the older spelling jam to-morrow ) is an expression for a never-fulfilled promise, or for some pleasant event in the future, which is never likely to materialize. Originating from a bit of wordplay involving Lewis Carroll 's Alice , it has been referenced in discussions of philosophy, economics, and politics. The expression originates from Lewis Carroll 's 1871 book Through

192-539: Is looking for her daughter Lily; Alice helps her by lifting the White Queen and King onto the table, leading them to believe they were thrown up by an invisible volcano . When Alice meets the Red Queen and joins the chess game, she takes the place of a white pawn, Lily being too young to play. She does not meet the White Queen as a human-sized character until the Fifth Square. The White Queen lives backwards in time, due to

216-567: Is not above cruel punishment such as having her sister exiled to the Outlands for the rest of her days where nobody is to show her kindness or say a word to her. Mirana also had the Knave of Hearts unwillingly kept in Iracebeth's company for the rest of his life. While the first film borrows elements from both of Lewis Carroll 's novels, the sequel introduces characters not featured in those novels. The story

240-406: Is reinforced by her habit of holding her hands gracefully at shoulder height in almost every scene in which she appears. But her black fingernail polish and the dark circles under her eyes, as well as her nonchalance about certain potion ingredients ("buttered fingers"), hint at a more complex character under the surface. Additionally, she is portrayed as a beautiful young woman with white blonde hair,

264-617: The Fairytale Detective , her name is Victoria because she is the Queen of Victory. Anne Hathaway portrays the White Queen (renamed "Mirana of Marmoreal") in Tim Burton 's 2010 adaptation alongside Helena Bonham Carter as Iracebeth, the Red Queen ; they are portrayed as sisters. The White Queen's soldiers appear in white armor inspired by chess pieces while The Red Queen's appear in armour made to resemble cards. Mirana's delicate exterior

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288-525: The Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There . This is a pun on a mnemonic for the usage of the Latin word iam (formerly often written and pronounced jam ), which means "at this time", but only in the future or past tense, not in the present (which is instead nunc "now"). In the book, the White Queen offers Alice " jam every other day" as an inducement to work for her: "I'm sure I'll take you with pleasure!"

312-474: The Queen said. "Two pence a week, and jam every other day." Alice couldn't help laughing, as she said, "I don't want you to hire me – and I don't care for jam." "It's very good jam," said the Queen. "Well, I don't want any to-day , at any rate." "You couldn't have it if you did want it," the Queen said. "The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday – but never jam to-day." "It must come sometimes to 'jam to-day'," Alice objected. "No, it can't," said

336-402: The Queen. "It's jam every other day: to-day isn't any other day, you know." "I don't understand you," said Alice. "It's dreadfully confusing!" The passage inspired the title of the 1979 musical But Never Jam Today . In more recent times, the phrase has been used to describe a variety of unfulfilled political promises on issues such as tax , and was used by C. S. Lewis in satirizing

360-620: The White King is at the time in check from the Red Queen. Alice proceeds to "capture" the Red Queen and checkmate the Red King , ending the game. The White Queen is not seen again, except as one of Alice's white cats , who Alice speculates may have influenced the dream. The White Queen has been portrayed in various TV and film productions by actresses including Louise Fazenda , Nanette Fabray , Brenda Bruce , Maureen Stapleton , Carol Channing , Penelope Wilton , and Anne Hathaway . In Sandra

384-399: The end. The White Queen, aside from telling Alice things that she finds difficult to believe (one being that she is just over 101 years old) says that in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast" and counsels Alice to practice the same skill. The meeting ends with the Queen seeming to turn into a bespectacled sheep who sits at a counter in a shop as Alice passes into

408-453: The extrapolation of evolution from biological theory to philosophical guiding principle, in his 1957 poem "Evolutionary Hymn": Lead us, Evolution, lead us Up the future's endless stair: Chop us, change us, prod us, weed us. For stagnation is despair: Groping, guessing, yet progressing, Lead us nobody knows where. Wrong or justice in the present, Joy or sorrow, what are they While there's always jam to-morrow, While we tread

432-447: The fact that she lives through the eponymous looking glass. Her behaviour is odd to Alice. She offers Alice " jam to-morrow and jam yesterday - but never jam to-day." She screams in pain until, rather than because, she pricks her thumb on her brooch, and tells Alice of the King's messenger who has been imprisoned for a crime he will later be tried for and perhaps (but not definitely) commit in

456-519: The image of "never jam today" in order to portray vividly the tendency to excessive saving which may lead to economic stagnation: For purposiveness means that we are more concerned with the remote future results of our actions than with their own quality or their immediate effects on our own environment. The "purposive" man is always trying to secure a spurious and delusive immortality for his acts by pushing his interest in them forward into time. He does not love his cat, but his cat's kittens; nor, in truth,

480-421: The kittens, but only the kittens' kittens, and so on forward forever to the end of cat-dom. For him jam is not jam unless it is a case of jam to-morrow and never jam to-day. Thus by pushing his jam always forward into the future, he strives to secure for his act of boiling it an immortality. British folk musician Billy Bragg uses it in his 1986 song "The Home Front" : The constant promise of jam tomorrow, Is

504-601: The life of Elizabeth Woodville (c. 1437–1492), Queen consort of England The White Queen (TV series) , a 2013 British serial drama based on the Gregory novel and its sequels Lacus Clyne or White Queen, a character in the Gundam science fiction media franchise White Queen, a character in the Nick Velvet novel series by Edward D. Hoch " White Queen (As It Began) ", a song by Queen from Queen II Red Queen and White Queen ,

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528-463: The next square on the board. The Sheep is somewhat different from the Queen in terms of personality and gets "more like a porcupine every time [Alice] looks at her" because she knits with several knitting needles all at once. Two of these needles turn into oars when Alice appears in a boat, and then reappear in the Sheep's shop, where Alice purchases an egg, which becomes Humpty Dumpty as she moves to

552-482: The next square. In Chapter 9, the White Queen appears with the Red Queen, posing a series of typical Wonderland/Looking-Glass questions ("Divide a loaf by a knife: what's the answer to that ?"), and then celebrating Alice's promotion from pawn to queen. When that celebration goes awry, the White Queen seems to flee the scene by disappearing into a tureen of soup . Martin Gardner 's The Annotated Alice points out that

576-569: The onward way? Never knowing where we're going, We can never go astray. Monica Redlich's 1937 novel, for children and young adults, and older, uses the Carrollian phrase as its title, "Jam Tomorrow". In the novel, it is the family motto of the children of an impoverished vicar. This is not their only quotation from Lewis Carroll, but it reflects their stoic acceptance of straitened means today, and an unquenched hope for better things in some unforeseen tomorrow. John Maynard Keynes also makes use of

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