Sophia Wiest

Catholic Social Teaching, Period 1

12/6/17
Analyzing Catholic Social Teaching in Stories Project
Movie I’ve Chosen:
Alice through the Looking Glass (2016)
Major Events of Justice and Injustice
 The Red Queen taking the Mad Hatter’s family and holding them captive in an ant farm.
 The Red Queen takes the chronicle without Time’s permission to go back in time.
 The Red Queen almost destroyed all of Underland, because she saw herself in the past time.
 The Red Queen held a grudge for years against the White Queen over eating the tarts and
lying to their mother about it.
Synopsis

Alice through the looking glass (2016)

The movie starts off with Alice on a ship in a storm, she is trying to escape an emeny. After
defeating the enemy she sets course for her home (England). She docks the ship and returns
home with her mother. Alice and her mother are having tea and tells her mother that she has
a business proposition for Haymitch (Alice’s ex fiance). Alice goes to the party and talks to
the board, and Alice is denied, and finds out that her mother sold Alice’s ship (The Wonder).
After Alice and her mother have their argument, Alice goes to the garden. Here she
encounters a blue butterfly and continues to follow it until she reaches a room that contains a
miror. The butterfly then flies through the mirror. Alice’s curiousness gets the best of her and
she goes through the mirror. Once through the mirror, Alice is tiny she talks to the blue
butterfly (Absolem). Absolem tells Alice that she has been gone for to long. Alice opens a
door and then drops until she hits a tea party. Alice is reunited with the people of
Wonderland (White Queen, Twittle dee, Twittle dum, ect.). They all then tell Alice that the
Mad Hatter is not doing well, and that they think that seeing Alice would make the Hatter
better. Alice then goes to the Hatter’s house, the Hatter’s first response is go away. After
Alice says its her, he opens the door and tells her that he is missing his family, and that he
thinks that his family is alive. Alice then has to tell him that his family died years ago in the
fire. The Hatter then gets angry and then throws Alice out of his house and accuses her of not
being the real Alice. The Hatter says if she were the real Alice she would believe him. Alice
then goes back to the tea party, and the White Queen says that there is only one way to save
the Hatter. Alice has to go back in time to firgure out what happened to his family. Alice
accepts the challenge. Alice has to find Time and his chronicle which is at his castle. Alice
then relizes that she is on a clock and she has to balance on the hands of the clock to get
inside the castle. Alice enters the castle and finds Time, he enters a room filled with pocket
watches hanging by chains. Each indiviual watch represents a person when Time takes a
watch off its chain that person dies and he places it in a different room with the deseased
people. Alice finally meets Time, and he is very rude to her and will not answer her questio.
After Alice asked her question which is to borrow the chronisphere. Time says that Alice
cannot change the past, and has Alice escorted out. On her way out, Alice hears a comotion
and sticks around. It is the Red Queen and she is looking for Time. Alice then goes deeper
into Time’s castle and gets the Cronisphere. The Red Queen asked Time for the Cronisphere
and Time says that he cannot do that. Alice grabs the Cronisphere and Time sends his robots
after her to try and stop her. Alice gets into the cronisphere and goes back into time before
Time or his robots caught her. Alice goes back to the day of the Corrination day of the Red
Queen. The Red Queen was angered because the crown couldn’t fit on her head. The King
then told the Red Queen that she is unfit to be queen, and that the White Queen will be
Queen. The Red Queen is then more angered and her head grows and storms out of the room.
The Mad Hatter’s father then yells at the Hatter for costing the Red Queen her place of
royality and that he is a disgrace to the family. The Hatter then storms off and leaves his
family, and doesn’t want to go back. Alice then tries to tell the Hatter he has to go back to his
family because they are in danger. The Hatter says he is not going back, and Alice tries to
warn his parents herself. Alice and the Hatter’s parents were interuptted by the White Queen,
who apoligizes for her sister’s actions. Then they talk about the Red Queen’s misfortune.
Alice then says what if that day never happened. Alice then goes back into time to that day
when the misfortune happened. Time tries to follow Alice to retrieve the cronicle and goes to
the past where Alice just was. The Hatter then asks if he has seen Alice, and then the Hatter
distracts Time with offering him tea. Alice then travels in time to where the Red and White
Queen are children and they get into a disagreement about the tarts that their mother is
making. The White Queen takes the last tart and drops crumbs on the floor, but just brushes
them under her sister’s bed. The Red Queen is tending to her ant farm, and then their mom
then comes into their room and is mad about the tarts, she asks which one of them ate it. The
White Queen says that she didn’t eat it, and the Red Queen yells and says that she is lying.
The mom believes her because the crumbs are under the Red Queen’s bed, the Red Queen
storms out of the room, and goes outside to town square. The Red Queen runs and trips and
hits here head on the concrete. Alice goes with the Hatter and Alice witnesses the Hatter’s
dad rip up the hat that the hatter makes. Then Alice sees that the Hatter’s dad keeping the
Hatters hat that he made. Alice then has a flaskback and relizes that the Hatter’s family is
alive, because they weren’t in Time’s room of the deceased people. Time catches up to Alice
and grabs her, and tells her that she has created a mass destruction to Time. Time asks for his
cronisphere but Alice jumps through a mirror and ends up in the real world, and escapes
Time. Alice is in a bed with her mother, they think there is something wrong with Alice and
tries to fix her. Alice escapes the people and jumps off the roof of the building and takes off
in a carriage. Alice then returns to Wonderland, and goes back in time to the day of the fire
where the Hatter’s family supposingly died. Alice finds out that the Red Queen took the
Hatter’s family. Alice is back in presnet day, and the Hatter is severly ill. Alice tells the
Hatter that his family is alive and she knows what happened in the past. The Hatter then goes
back to normal and is now on the search for the Red Queen. The Red Queen has been
holding the Hatter’s family captive in her ant farm. Alice and her team goes to the Red
Queen’s fortress in search for the Hatter’s family. Everyone searches the Red Queen’s
fortress and cannot find the Hatter’s family. The Hatter’s family then create a hat in the sand,
and the Hatter realizes that his family is stuck in the ant farm. The Red Queen gets the
cronisphere from Alice and then tries the go back in time. Alice has to follow the Red Queen
and try to stop her. In the past time the Red Queen sees herslef and breaks the past. Alice
 travels back the presnet and puts the cronisphere and restores time in Wonderland. At the
end, the White Queen tells her sister that she lied about eating the tarts and that she sorry.
The Red and White Queen make up, and the Hatter is reunited with his family. Alice returns
to the real world and Alice’s mother doesn’t sign over the Wonder. Alice’s mother then says
that Haymitch isnt a nice man, and that she is happy that Alice didn’t marry him, and she
ripped up the papers. After, Alice and her mother opened a boating company, and continued
to sail all over the country.
Character’s View of Justice:
The Red Queen is the protagonist of Alice through the Looking Glass, who has grown up
her whole life being compared to her sister the White Queen. The Red Queen has always been
jealous of her sister, because it seems that the White Queen always got what she wanted. Since
the Red Queen was the eldest daughter she took over the throne. When the Red Queen took the
throne she forced the people of her castle to dress and be more like her. Since the Red Queen has
an extremely large head, she thinks that everyone needs to be like that so she doesn’t feel out of
place. All the Red Queen’s acquaintances have abnormal sized noses, heads, stomachs, and any
other body part. This action goes against human dignity which is to inherent dignity of every
person because every person is made in the image and likeness of God. At the end of the first
movie, Alice in Wonderland, the White Queen takes the crown and banishes the Red Queen from
Underland. Even though the Red Queen was banished from Underland, that didn’t stop her from
acting unjust. The Red Queen still continue to treats people unjustly, and is very self-centered.
This action goes against virtue, which is a habitual an firm disposition to do the good. All the
Red Queen thinks about is benefitting herself, and treating others less than human.
The Red Queen’s view of justice all changed after an event that happened when the Red
and White Queens were kids. Their mother came into their room and demanded an answer of
who ate the last tart that was on the plate. The Red Queen said it was her sister who did it, but
when their mom asked the White Queen if she ate the last tart her answer was no. Their mom
assumed that she was telling the truth because the tart crumbs were under the Red Queen’s bed.
The Red Queen bursts into anger and says that her sister is lying, and then storms out of the
house. The Red Queen ends up tripping and hitting her head off of the statue in the court yard in
front of everyone. This is why her head swelled up to be so large, and this was the Red Queen’s
most embarrassing moment in her life. After that day, that is when the Red Queen changed her
view of justice in a negative way, before that event she had a positive view of justice. The Red
Queen ends up holding the Hatter’s family captive which goes against legal justice which is to go
against the law.
The Red Queen’s view of justice, goes against what Christ taught us to do. The Red
Queen made people feel like they had to change who they were, because they didn’t fit her
perfect image of what she thought they were supposed to look like. Another example is that the
Red Queen held the Hatter’s family captive in an ant farm for several years. Jesus Christ our lord
wouldn’t have done that to anyone, he would welcome them into his house and place them at his
banquet. The Red Queen’s view of justice is like a no mercy justice, she thinks that there is only
one way to do things. Also the Red Queen thinks that her way is the best way and if you aren’t
doing it her way then as she always says, “Off with your head!”