Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Characters

She appears at the very beginning and very end of Alice’s adventure. She is reading on the bank when Alice drifts into her dreamand when Alice wakes up, she kindly listens to her long adventure story, and daydreams more knowingly about Wonderland herself, contemplating how Alice will soon grow up.

Dinah is Alice’s cat, a wonderful rodent catcher and a loyal friend – Alice misses her greatly when she is in Wonderland.

A weary creature that Alice meets swimming along in the pool of tears. She befriends him but her mentions of Dinah, the expert mouse-catcher, greatly offends him. He does eventually agree to tell her his story, which is about a judge-like cat named Fury.

The instigator of the Caucus-race and a very wise-sounding bird. He is solemn and loves a ceremony, as we see when he nominates Alice to donate the prizes for the race winners and bows low to her in gratitude when presenting a prize to her.

She is seen cooking with huge amounts of pepper in the Duchess’s kitchen, and making everybody sneeze. She has an awful temper, and flies into a rage for no reason.

The Mad Hatter is an eccentric host, a lover of riddles and wordplay and gives Alice a challenging time at his tea party, scolding and berating her. Time has frozen at six o’clock for the Hatter, so he lives in perpetual tea-time.

He is the sleepy friend of the mad Hatter and Hare. He lives on the tea table and is a renowned storyteller, though his stories are often quite nonsensical and quick, since he has to hurry to finish them before he falls asleep again.

A hare that has been mad since March, when the Hatter sang out-of-time at the Queen’s concert. He enjoys frustrating Alice , for example offering her wine when there isn’t any.

The terrified subjects of the Queen of Hearts’ palace. They are gardeners, courtiers, soldiers and other royal guests, who live in fear of beheadings ordered by the Queen, even though they are made of cardboard.

The King of Hearts is the slightly calmer companion of the Queen of Hearts, reigning over Wonderland, but is a servant to the Queen’s violent whims. He ineffectually takes on the role of Judge in the palace court.

The Gryphon is a mythical creature, half-lion, half-eagle, and an old friend of the Mock-Turtle. Reminiscing about his school days by the sea and the Lobster Quadrille makes him very excited and he loves showing off his expertise about Whitings and rhymes.

He has been accused by the Queen of Hearts of stealing her tarts. A trial is held, but he is not given much of a chance to defend himself between the nonsensical testimonies of the Hatter, the Cook and Alice.