Tweedledum and Tweedledee
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Tweedledee and Tweedledum are fictional characters in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There and in a nursery rhyme by an anonymous author. Their names may have originally come from ''one of the most celebrated and most frequently quoted (and sometimes misquoted) epigrams'', written by poet John Byrom.
Lewis Carroll and John Tenniel
A third and perhaps most familiar source is Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass and what Alice Found There. Carroll, having introduced two fat little men named Tweedledum and Tweedledee, quotes the nursery rhyme, which the two brothers then go on to enact. They agree to have a battle, but never have one. When they see a monstrous black crow swooping down, they take to their heels. The Tweedle brothers never contradict each other. Nohow! Contrariwise, they complement each other's words. This fact has led Tenniel to assume that they are twins also physically, and Gardner goes so far as to claim that Carroll intended them to be enantiomorphs, i.e. three-dimensional mirror images. Evidence for these assumptions cannot be found in any of Lewis Carroll's writings. The two characters appeared in Walt Disney's adaptation of Alice in Wonderland despite the fact that the movie was mostly based on the first book. They are often represented by actors in Disney theme Parks. They also appear as bosses in American McGee's Alice working for the Mad Hatter, and as the character 'General Doppelganger' in The Looking Glass Wars.