![]() ![]() Now I growl when I’m pleased, and wag my tail when I’m angry. `Well, then,’ the Cat went on, `you see, a dog growls when it’s angry, and wags its tail when it’s pleased. `To begin with,’ said the Cat, `a dog’s not mad. `You must be,’ said the Cat, `or you wouldn’t have come here.’Īlice didn’t think that proved it at all however, she went on `And how do you know that you’re mad?’ `Oh, you can’t help that,’ said the Cat: `we’re all mad here. “`But I don’t want to go among mad people,’ Alice remarked. `Oh, you’re sure to do that,’ said the Cat, `if you only walk long enough.'” `–so long as I get SOMEWHERE,’ Alice added as an explanation. `Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,’ said the Cat. `That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,’ said the Cat. Proverbs A Cheshire Cat saying that cheese was formerly. `Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?’ Brewers Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1894) mentions among Cat. `Come, it’s pleased so far,’ thought Alice, and she went on. “`Cheshire Puss,’ began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether it would like the name: however, it only grinned a little wider. In Tim Burton’s 2010 movie, the Cheshire Cat’s name is ‘Chessur’. Perhaps this is what inspired Dodgson.Īlso, at one time, Cheshire cheeses were molded in the shape of a grinning cat.įinally, the Cheshire Cat might be inspired by a sedilia in Croft Church. Its origin is unknown, but it may have originated from a sign painter in Cheshire, who painted grinning lions on the sign-boards of inns in the area.Īnother source may be the following: when you take a good look at the ‘Alice Window’ in Christ Church, Oxford, you can see 3 grinning animals at the top of the Liddell’s family arms. “To grin like a Cheshire Cat” was a common phrase in Carroll’s day. It is not 100% clear why Carroll named this character ‘Cheshire Cat’. He gives her insight in how things work down there.Ĭarroll kept changing details in the story throughout this life, and in some editions of the story the name of the cat is spelled as ‘Cheshire-Cat’, not ‘Cheshire Cat’. With his remarks, he teaches Alice the ‘rules’ of Wonderland. The Cheshire Cat is the only character in Wonderland who actually listens to Alice. In “The Nursery ‘Alice'”, Alice notices that the cat has ‘lovely green eyes’. Sometimes it disappears and leaves its grin behind. In chapter 8 she meets it again in the Queen’s croquet garden. It constantly grins and can disappear and reappear whenever it likes. Alice first meets it in chapter 6 from “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, when she leaves the Duchess house, and finds it in a tree. The Cheshire Cat is the cat of the Duchess.
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