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In Alice’s Adventures in Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll, in Chapter 4 Alice meets up with Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee. As if practically everything having to do with Alice, Lewis Carroll has Alice, recalling a poem about those specific characters she meets up with, which invariably happens in the chapter. The poem presented by Lewis Carroll goes like this:*

`Tweedledum and Tweedledee

Agreed to have a battle;

For Tweedledum said Tweedledee

Had spoiled his nice new rattle.

Just then flew down a monstrous crow,

As black as a tar-barrel;

Which frightened both the heroes so,

They quite forgot their quarrel.’

Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee are as they assume to be, a couple of school boys but they are adults by the way they talk. Especially because they are willing to go to battle over a toy. They talk to Alice as adults often do. They behave like teenagers when it comes to doing battle. They are also looking for the child (meaning Alice) to behave in the manner they wish her to behave which are how all the characters she runs into presents themselves. This is normal behavior for most adults.

You notice this by these paragraphs from that chapter:

*`I know what you’re thinking about,’ said Tweedledum: `but it isn’t so, nohow.’

`Contrariwise,’ continued Tweedledee, `if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.’

`I was thinking,’ Alice said very politely, `which is the best way out of this wood: it’s getting so dark. Would you tell me, please?’

But the little men only looked at each other and grinned.

These characters love visitors just as all of the other characters do. They also seem to love to entertain which makes these characters so loveable and why they get such a joy and it is such an oddity that they are reciting the poem The Walrus and the Carpenter. One thing for sure, they are looking to show off.

* Taken from Lenny’s Alice in Wonderland site http://www.alice-in-wonderland.net/