Who is said to be the Cheshire Cat. Hatter or Cheshire Cat? Who are you from "Alice in Wonderland" according to the horoscope

The cat is unusual with its smile, because animals, including cats, cannot smile

“Tell me, please, why is your cat smiling like that? —
asked Alice timidly. She didn't know if it was good for her to speak
first, but could not resist.
“Because,” said the Duchess. - It's a Cheshire cat -
that's why! Oh you pig!
She uttered the last words with such fury that Alice
jumped straight up. But she immediately realized that this did not apply to
her, but to the baby, and with determination she continued:
- I didn't know that Cheshire cats always smile. By
To be honest, I didn't even know cats could smile.
- They know how, - answered the Duchess. - And almost everyone smiles.
“I haven’t seen a single cat like that,” she remarked politely.
Alice, very pleased that the conversation is going so well.
“You haven’t seen much,” snapped the Duchess.
exactly!”

He considers himself out of his mind

« Nothing can be done, - objected the Cat. - We are not all here.
in your mind - and you and I.
How do you know I'm out of my mind? - asked
Alice.
- Of course, not in his own, - answered the Cat. Otherwise, how would you
was here?
This argument seemed to Alice not at all convincing, but she
did not argue, but only asked:
"How do you know you're out of your mind?"
- Let's start with the fact that the dog is in his mind. Agree?
"Let's do it," agreed Alice.
"Next," said the Cat. - The dog grumbles when he is angry, and
when pleased, wags its tail. Well, I grumble when I'm happy
and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore, I'm out of my mind
mind.
- In my opinion, you are not grumbling, but purring, - objected Alice.
Anyway, that's what I call it.
“Call it what you like,” said the Cat. - The essence of this is not
is changing"

He knows how to disappear and reappear

“Are you playing croquet with the Queen today?
“I would like very much,” said Alice, “but I still
not invited.
- Then until the evening, - said the Cat and disappeared.
Alice was not very surprised by this - she had already begun to get used to
for all sorts of oddities. She stood and looked at the branch where
the cat had just been sitting, when suddenly he reappeared on the same
place.
By the way, what happened to the baby? - said the Cat. - At all
forgot to ask you.
“He has turned into a piglet,” answered Alice, and with her eye
without blinking.
“I thought so,” said the Cat, and disappeared again.
Alice waited a little to see if he would appear again, but he did not
appeared, and she went to where, according to him, Martovsky lived
Hare.
“I have already seen the hatmakers,” she said about
himself - the March Hare, in my opinion, much more interesting. Besides
it is now May - perhaps he has already come to his senses a little.
Then she looked up and saw the Cat again.
- How did you say: into a piglet or a gosling? - asked the Cat.
- I said: into a pig, - Alice answered. - And you
can disappear and appear not so suddenly? And then I have
head is spinning.
- Well, - said the Cat and disappeared - this time very
slowly. The tip of his tail was the first to disappear, and the last
smile; she hovered in the air for a long time, when everything else was already
gone.
- Y-yes! thought Alice. - I saw cats without a smile,
but smiles without a cat! I have never seen anything like this in my life.”

He is wise

“A few steps away from her, the Cheshire Cat was sitting on a branch. Seeing Alice, the Cat only smiled. He looked good-natured, but his claws were long and his teeth were so numerous that Alice knew at once that he was not to be trifled with.
- Cat! Cheshik! Alice began timidly. She didn't know if he liked the name, but he only smiled wider in response.
- Nothing, - thought Alice, - seems to be satisfied.
She asked aloud:
- Tell me, please, where should I go from here?
- Where do you want to go? - answered the Cat.
- I don't care ... - said Alice.
“Then it doesn’t matter where you go,” said the Cat.
- ... just to get somewhere, - Alice explained.
"You're bound to get somewhere," said the Cat. “You just have to walk long enough.”

Why, among all the other heroes of Carroll's fairy tale (March Hare, White Rabbit, Caterpillar, Frog), did the Cheshire Cat become especially popular? Probably from the weakness that people have for cats. After all, it was not without reason that Bulgakov made the cat Behemoth one of the cutest characters.

"Alice in Wonderland"

Our world tends to be rational and very correct. So correct that it is hard to survive in it.

Cheshire Cat quotes are wise crazy recipes for not going crazy in this right world.

I have collected quotes for you. A total of 34 quotes from a variety of works in which Alice lives and the Cheshire Cat philosophizes.

Cheshire Cat Quotes

How to understand you?
- It is not necessary to understand me. Be sure to love and feed on time.

Only a fool can measure success by suffering.

Every journey starts with the first step. Trite, but true.

He who seeks will surely find ... but there are exceptions too.

Those who learn from their mistakes are called a bad word.

It doesn't matter why significant became insignificant. It has, and that's it.

When miracles become delusions, reason turns into madness.

What are those sounds over there? Alice asked.
“Ah, these are miracles,” the Cheshire Cat explained indifferently.
- And what are they doing there? - the girl asked.
- As expected, - the Cat yawned. - Happen.

Flattering words often move the target to action, learn their true meaning.

Joy and slavery do not coexist under the same roof

He who seeks will always find ... if he seeks correctly.

You have two choices: one will lead you to happiness, the other to madness. My advice to you - do not stumble.

I've heard it's wise to rely on yourself... now you've heard it too.

Guess the riddle: when does a croquet mallet look like a stun gun? The answer is obvious: whenever you want.

I'm not crazy, it's just that my reality is different from yours.

She behaves in such a way that I sometimes regret that I undertook to muddy the waters of this still pool ...

Some do not see a way out, even if they find it. Others just don't look...

Serious attitude to anything in this world is a fatal mistake.
- Is life serious?
- Oh yes, life is serious! But not very...

They say seek and you will find, but no one says you will find.

Everything is possible in our world.
- Correction: in yours. In mine - everything is according to my rules.

Collect anything you find useful. Except indifference and ignorance. And then maybe you'll survive.

Sometimes the reflection in the mirror is more real than the object itself...

If you don't know something - find out ... or die!

Threats, promises and good intentions, none of this is action.

At times, in her madness, I see glimpses of real talent.

When someone's head is in the clouds, someone's heart gets wet.

Destroy what can destroy you.

Who says that there is nothing better to calm the nerves than a cup of tea, in fact they have not tried real tea. It's like a shot of adrenaline straight to the heart.

Protective walls may get in your way, but the most impenetrable walls in the world are those that surround our hearts.

Sometimes, before asking for help from a person, you should think carefully about how this help can turn out for you.

Silly does not mean ignorant.

Paths that lead to trouble end the same way, but how do they lead?

Whoever says that too much good is bad is lying.

If the Cheshire Cat smiles, then someone needs it

A lot of Cheshire cats in the pictures from me...

Continuing the theme of Lewis Carroll, I'll tell you where he came from, this most smiling cat in the world.
From the tale of Lewis Carroll - you say. And of course you can't go wrong. A mysterious and completely unusual smile for cats has become the trademark of the fairy tale "Alice in Wonderland". But the Cheshire Cat existed even before Carroll came up with the inquisitive and reasonable Alice and Wonderland with its eccentric citizens.

In the original version of the tale (1864), there was no Cheshire Cat. He appeared in 1865.

The cheshire cat in the 1866 edition of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland,illustrated by John Tenniel.
from here: http://readerbreeder.tumblr.com/

The main feature of the Cheshire Cat is that he, when he pleases, dissolves into the air and leaves behind only a sardonic smile. The expression "smiling like a Cheshire cat" was very popular in England in those days. There are at least two options to explain where this expression came from.

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First, in the county of Cheshire, where the storyteller Carroll was born, an unknown painter painted grinning cats over the doors of taverns. In fact, they were supposed to be lions or leopards, but cats were, apparently, closer to the Cheshire soul.

from here: http://www.alice-in-wonderland.net/pictures/cheshire-cat-pictures.html

Secondly, the look of smiling cats was given to Cheshire cheeses, their history has a little, a lot of nine centuries. By the way, every year in February, Chester hosts interesting competitions - the cheese rolling championship. Cheese is rolled on the eve of the annual Food and Drink gastronomic festival. The people of Chester conscientiously support the teams of Cheshire, Stilton and Lancashire, who in turn must conscientiously overcome all obstacles. Everything starts at 11 am. The rector of Chester Cathedral "gives the go-ahead" for the start of the race, and the wheel of Cheshire cheese begins to roll around the Chester Gate, built in the 14th century on the site of a Roman rampart, and roll it to the gate at the Bridge Street bridge.

from here: http://www.ebbemunk.dk/alice/alice13.html

From The Book of Fictional Creatures, you can learn that in English there is an expression "grin like a Cheshire cat", which means "grin sardonically like a Cheshire cat." The expression has been given various explanations. One again reminds us of white Cheshire cheese.

By Anna Richards, SR., 1895 (After Tenniel), from here: http://www.liveinternet.ru/users/4149282/post169965366/

The second has to do with Cheshire County - English jokers claimed that even cats laughed at the high rank of a small county. The third version says that during the reign of Richard the Third, an honest forester Caterling lived in Cheshire County, who caught poachers and grinned sardonically at the same time.

from here: http://www.magicofdisneyart.co.uk/

But the Cheshire Cat from Wonderland adopted the ability to disappear from the ghost of the Congleton cat. In life, this cat was the favorite of the caretaker of the abbey, but one fine day he did not return home after another walk ... A few days later, the woman heard scratching at the door; her beloved cat was sitting on the threshold, however, after a moment he disappeared, as if evaporated in the air. The ghost of a white cat has been seen by hundreds of people over the years. He appeared every evening, he was seen by the caretaker, and her friends, and visitors to Cheshire Abbey. Carroll was apparently inspired by this story and used the image of the Congleton Ghost when inventing his smiling Cheshire Cat.

Oksana Zaika, from here: http://www.liveinternet.ru/users/treasure50/post124940239/

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The image of a grinning cat, able to dissolve in the air, leaving behind only a smile, occupying Alice not only with conversations, but sometimes with non-cat philosophical fabrications, also appears in works based on Carroll's fairy tale. The Cheshire Cat can be seen in Disney's Alice in Wonderland. The cat became one of the characters in the video game based on the Disney cartoon. In the computer game American McGee's Alice, there is a very colorful Cheshire Cat, he plays the role of Alice's guide and companion in a virtual wonderland.

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Alice in Wonderland is one of the most mysterious and strange fairy tales. After the release of the book, the adventures of a little girl in a magical land were not understood by critics, but over time, the fairy tale, like its heroine, has grown from children's literature into one of the most cited books in the world, into a work that thinkers, psychologists and historians turn to in their research. , logicians and philosophers, physicists and mathematicians, constantly discovering new meanings in it. Although the story itself appeared by chance, when the author, improvising, came up with a fairy tale for the daughters of the rector of Christ Church College, Liddell.

The author of the book is considered to be Lewis Carroll, but this is a literary pseudonym, the real name of the writer is Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Charles grew up in a large family and as a child he constantly entertained his younger brothers and sisters with various games, fairy tales and stories of his own composition. The boy loved to invent word games and new words.

In 1850, Dodgson entered Christ Church College, after receiving a bachelor's degree, following the results of a competition, he received the right to lecture in mathematics, becoming a college teacher for twenty-six years, as well as a deacon of the Anglican Church. Teaching activities provided the main income, allowing him to engage in literary creativity, Charles Dodgson sent his first poems and stories to magazines while still in college, but became widely known only after the publication of books about Alice.

Who is the prototype of Alice in Wonderland?

Alice Liddell, daughter of the Principal of Christ Church College, along with her sisters Edith and Lorina, were the first to hear the fascinating tale of Alice's underground adventures. The mathematician Charles Dodgson was very shy, stuttered, and only with children could he open up and surrender to the flow of fantasy, coming up with entertaining stories on the go, often during walks. Later, at the request of the children, he recorded the story of Alice's adventures.

The writer gave Alice Liddell one of the manuscripts of the fairy tale with his drawings and a photograph of the seven-year-old heroine. In 1928, the manuscript was sold at auction for £15,400, as Alice Hargreaves needed funds after her husband's death.

Heroes of Alice in Wonderland

The Lewis Carroll-invented tale has many amazing characters, the Cheshire Cat with a smile that remains when the cat disappears, and the March Hare and the Mad Hatter are the heroes of a crazy tea party that never ends, one of the main scenes of the book.

The prototype of the Cheshire Cat was the cats from the garden next to the rector's house, they liked to sit on one sprawling tree, as well as the old English proverb "Smiles like a Cheshire cat." Proverbs and sayings, puns, all the richness of the English language are also the heroes of Carroll's fairy tales. Under the tree in the garden, the girls and Dodgson often played croquet, a game that in turn was reflected in the fairy-tale world of the royal croquet scene.

Thanks to another old English proverb of the fourteenth century: “Mad as a March Hare”, a character of a strange tea party appeared - the March Hare, about which the heroes of the fairy tale said that he was like that from birth.

The Hatter, or in the translation of another author, the Hatter, in connection with his profession, usually pulled his hats on special blanks, "and so he finally fooled himself." Also, hatters used to work with mercury, which had an extremely negative effect on the psyche.

According to another version, the prototype of the Mad Hatter was Theophilus Carter, an eccentric furniture dealer who lived near Oxford, he had the nickname "Mad Hatter" because he was the author of eccentric ideas and liked to wear a top hat. Theophilus Carter is the inventor of the wake-up bed, which throws the sleeper to the floor at a certain hour. It is believed that this is why Carroll was worried about the thought of time and about waking Sonya.

The strange world of Carroll's nonsense tales, devoid of any morality, appeared as a contrast to the fairy tales popular at the time, filled with teachings, many of which seemed sugary. In the world of his fantasies, Charles Dodgson found freedom from the conventions and prohibitions so common in nineteenth-century England.

In this article you will learn:

Cheshire cat from wonderland- the famous hero of the book by L. Carroll "Alice in Wonderland".

Creating an image

In the original work of Carroll, this hero was not. The character appeared in 1865 thanks to the popular expression “Smile like the Cheshire Cat” and there are theories about this: 1. The legendary cheese produced in Cheshire was made to look like a smiling cat; 2. Cheshire was so small and it was called a county, even cats laughed at it.

Cheshire cat from the movie

Characteristic:

The good-natured Cheshire cat constantly smiled and could disappear, leaving only his wide smile for consideration. The cat was still that philosopher, he could push more than one speech, at the same time inserting something funny. The character freely moved through the air and could teleport.

Cheshire considered himself crazy, because everyone around him was crazy. He wagged his tail when he was angry and angry when he was pleased.

“I have seen cats without a smile. But a smile without a cat!..”

Story

The character is firmly established in popular culture. There is no such person who would not know this smiling character. The cat first appeared in Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and belonged to the Duchess. Cartoons, games, comics all about the same girl Alice brought him great popularity.

The creature's habitat is Wonderland, which is inhabited by various, no less strange heroes. The cat's best friends are the Mad Hatter, the March Hare and the Dormouse, with whom he arranges Crazy Tea Parties.

Among Cheshire's friends, there was a girl Alice who called him Cheshire.

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