The Trial

In chapter eleven the Knave of Hearts has been accused of stealing the Queens tarts, and the King is quite willing to execute the Knave without a fair trial. The White Rabbit has to remind the King the rules and protocol of the trial. In chapter three the mouse tells the tale about how Fury will be judge and jury and condemn the mouse to death. Could this trial by Fury be the same trial that the King is having with the Knave? The King is the judge, and in a way the jury because the creatures that make up the jury will do anything that the King asks them to do. The King does have a temper, but is not furious, and is not all that clever as Fury from the mouse’s tale.

But all the same, the King is eager to condemn the Knave to death. The White Rabbit is the only one who makes sure that the King stays within the bounds of the court. The first two witness’s against the Knave don’t even talk about the Knave himself. But in truth, there is not that much evidence against the Knave, though he does make a statement in chapter twelve that points out he had some knowledge of the letter of the thief by saying that the letter wasn’t signed, which could mean that he had written the letter. In chapter twelve tries to get Alice out of the court by inventing a new rule, and then gets crushed by the fact that if the rule was the oldest, it would have been number one. The King also tries to make some out of the letter which didn’t make any sense at all. The King said that because there was no meaning in the letter would make it easier to understand, and then tried to relate some of the verses with the Knave that could connect the Knave to the Letter. Then the King tells the Queen that she never has fits, on which she throws an inkstand at Bill the lizard. After this event the trial goes out of the Kings hands and the Queen is calling for sentences before verdicts and for Alice to be beheaded.

So then, the tale that the mouse gave in chapter three does relate to the trial that was done in chapters 11 and 12 and that Fury( the King) was going to condemn the mouse( the Knave) to death while being both judge and jury.