CHAPTER 8
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Red resembles passion. The queen of hearts had a passion, but for what? Love? Hate? A passion for cutting heads? It's a possibility. The roses were white before they were painted red. The color white resembles purity, innocence, and new beginnings. Once the white roses where covered up with red paint, to me this signified the meaning of how innocence, purity, and or new beginnings are then covered up by passion. The Queen of Hearts is based on Queen Victoria. At the age of 18, queen Victoria took over the throne. At the age of 21, she became married to her cousin Albert. This was a new beginning for her which involved in her losing her innocence and purity because of passion. Passion for being a queen, passion for ruling, passion for being married, whatever it may be. An interesting fact about Queen Victoria is that she had a child of her own named Alice. In total, Alexandrina Victoria (which is actually her full name) had 9 children. She wasn't very fond of children. Didn't even take care of her own children to be exact. Just like in this story, queen Victoria was a heartless and hard headed person. She wasn't the type to be willing to change her ideas or opinions. I feel as if the queen of hearts name has the word heart in it because she doesn't have a heart of her own. When she would get upset and furious the first thing that came to her mind was "Off with their head!" To me, this shows how cold hearted she actually is. She didn't think twice about her decision until someone told her to reconsider.
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Pruitt, S. (2013). 5 Things You May Not Know About Queen Victoria. Retrieved April 22, 2016, from http://www.history.com/news/5-things-you-may-not-know-about-queen-victoria