What’s Jane about to discover? Mia Wasikowska in Cary Fukunaga’s 2011 film adaptation of Jane Eyre. There she finds Kai, and when she takes him in her arms and her tears of love fall on him, his heart is melted and the evil splinter burnt, freeing him from the wicked Queen. Gerda demonstrates great bravery as she overcomes a variety of obstacles during her rescue mission: she is taken in by a sorceress who wants to keep her for herself and so erases her memory of Kai (luckily Gerda’s tears raise a rose bush from the ground which reminds her of her friend) then she is captured by robbers (but manages to escape, helped by the friendly robber girl) and finally journeys north by reindeer to the Snow Queen’s palace. In the original fairy tale Gerda seeks to rescue her best friend, Kai, the boy next door, who has been kidnapped by the wicked Snow Queen after a splinter from an evil mirror gets into his eye. Gerda? Gerda who? Well, you may or may not know that Gerda, the female heroine in The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen, was the inspiration for Anna in the disney film, Frozen, which was based on Andersen’s story. Alice then further goes against the Queen’s wishes by hiding the three gardeners in a flower pot and thereby saving them from execution.
When the queen asks her who the gardeners are who have been painting the roses red, Alice – who in fact surprises herself with her courage – says, “How should I know? It’s no business of mine.” The Queen promptly turns crimson with fury, glares at her like a wild beast and screams her famous words, “Off with her head!” While most of us would cower in fear or attempt to escape, Alice refuses to back down and retorts, “Nonsense!” This shocks the Queen into silence, which perhaps could be what saves Alice. The Queen is a fearsome character whom everyone desperately tries to please for fear of being beheaded, but Alice won’t put up with it.
Photograph: PR Alice of Alice in WonderlandĪnother saver of lives is the heroine in Lewis Carroll’s novel, Alice in Wonderland, seen particularly when Alice encounters the Queen of Hearts for the first time. Illustration from Anthony Browne’s re-imagining of Alice in Wonderland. Her heroics have saved the lives of many people, but Roberta, in a state of shock and just like Anne Shirley, cannot help but fall unconscious.Īlice faces up to the Queen. Mercifully, the engine does finally come to a stop, right in front of her. The front of the engine looks black and enormous, its voice is loud and harsh but still Roberta stands her ground. Oh, horrible!” When she notices the flags they’ve positioned cannot stand by themselves, Roberta steps onto the line and waves the flags frantically herself, despite the desperate pleas of her brother and sister. “If we can’t stop the train,” Roberta panics, “there’ll be a real live accident, with people killed.
In a move shocking for the beginning of the 20th century, Roberta and her sister whip off their red flannel petticoats and fashion some flags to alert the train driver. When the children notice a landslide blocking the railway track, they know instantly they must do something. Roberta (or Bobbie, as she is otherwise known) is the eldest of the three siblings in The Railway Children by E Nesbit so it’s perhaps unsurprising she shows the most courage. Photograph: Allstar/EMI/Sportsphoto Ltd./Allstar Roberta of The Railway Children Wave that petticoat! Sally Thomsett, Gary Warren and Jenny Agutter in the 1970 film adaptation of The Railway Children.
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