Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · Character
Snap-dragon-fly
- Minor
- First seen · Book 2 · Ch. 3
The Snap-dragon-fly looks like a feast imagined by someone with a taste for the impossible: pudding for a body, holly for wings, and a tiny flaming raisin for a head. It is both festive and faintly alarming, a flicker of warmth in the wood’s strangeness.
- First appears
- Book 2 · Ch. 3
- Books
- 1
The Snap-dragon-fly is one of the extraordinary creatures Alice hears described in the wood. Its body is plum-pudding, its wings are holly leaves, and its raisin head burns in brandy. Though only briefly encountered in the tale, its vivid construction captures the playful, unsettling inventiveness of Wonderland.
Description
The Snap-dragon-fly has a body formed from plum-pudding, rounded and richly textured like a tiny dessert. Holly leaves make up its wings, their pointed edges giving the insect a crisp silhouette. Its head is a raisin burning in brandy, a small flame providing its most striking feature. The creature’s presence is at once festive, edible-looking, and fantastical. The Snap-dragon-fly has a plump, rounded body like a miniature plum pudding, dark and richly textured with the suggestion of fruit and spice. Holly leaves form its wings, their glossy green surfaces and pointed edges giving it a crisp, festive silhouette. Its head is a raisin, tiny and dark, glowing with a flame-like amber light. The creature’s peculiar ingredients lend it the air of a delicate confection briefly brought to life.
Story so far
BOOK 2Through The Looking Glass
Appearances
Meet Snap-dragon-fly in Bookworm
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