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In chapter 8, three cards are painting the roses on a rose tree red, for they accidentally planted a white-rose tree which the Queen of Hearts hates. Red roses symbolized the English House of Lancaster, while white roses were the symbol for their rival House of York. Therefore, this scene may contain a hidden allusion to the Wars of the Roses.

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ORIGINAL: stellaluna

I think anymore people aren't accustomed to rounding out their literature by attempting to understand the historical and cultural influences at the time of writing.

For example, in Alice:

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How many modern readers even know what the Wars of the Roses are? (Not a Danny DeVito movie!)

Actually, I'm quite aware of the War of the Roses, via Shakespeare's Richard III!

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The future is always known, it's the past that's constantly changing.

--old Soviet-era, dissident joke

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But I never really though Alice's Adventures was all sweetness and light, either. That's a pretty twisted little tale and Burton and Depp are perfectly suited to it.

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It looks interesting. Most of the Alice in Wonderland movies bore me to tears.