Alice In Wonderland Cat
SummaryFrom the wood, Alice sees a fish in footman’s livery approachthe house and knock on the door. A similarly dressed frog answersthe door and receives a letter inviting the Duchess to play croquetwith the Queen.
After the Fish Footman leaves, Alice approachesthe Frog Footman, who sits on the ground staring stupidly up atthe sky. Alice knocks at the door, but the Frog Footman explainsthat now that she is outside, no one will answer her knock sincethe people inside are making too much noise to hear her. He tellsher he plans to sit there for days and seems unsurprised when thedoor opens a crack and a plate flies out and grazes his nose.
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Annoyedwith his idiotic manner, Alice opens the door and finds herselfin a kitchen. A Duchess nurses a baby, a grinning cat sits on thehearth, and a Cook stands at the stove, dumping pepper into a cauldronof soup. The pepper causes the Duchess and the baby to sneeze incessantly.Alice inquires why the cat grins and learns from the Duchessthat it is a Cheshire Cat. Wondering aloud why a cat would grinat all, the Duchess insults Alice, telling her that she must notknow very much. Meanwhile, the Cook hurls objects randomly at theDuchess and the baby, including fire-irons, saucepans, and plates.Alice tells the Cook to mind herself, and attempts to change thesubject of conversation by bringing up the earth’s axis.
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The Duchessmishears Alice, and thinking she is talking about axes,spontaneously shouts, “Chop off her head!” The Duchess starts tosing a nasty lullaby to the baby, roughly tussling it as she sings.Upon finishing, she flings the baby at Alice and hurries out ofthe room to prepare for croquet with the Queen.Alice takes the baby outside, only to discover that itis a pig. After she lets the pig toddle off, she encounters theCheshire Cat again, grinning broadly as it rests on the bough ofa tree. After inquiring of the Cheshire Cat where she might go next,he tells her that no matter where she goes she will end up somewhere.The Cheshire Cat arbitrarily suggests she visit the Mad Hatter andthe March Hare, but warns her that they are both mad. When Aliceresponds that she does not want to be among mad people, he tellsher that all people are mad, and if she is in Wonderland, she mustbe mad too.
Alice attempts to press the point, but the CheshireCat changes the subject, telling Alice that it will see her at theQueen’s croquet match later. The Cheshire Cat vanishes and reappearsbefore fading to nothing but a disembodied grin, leaving Alice totravel onward to the March Hare’s house. Upon discovering that thehouse is larger than she is, Alice consumes a portion of the Caterpillar’smushroom and grows to two feet tall. AnalysisChapter 6 derives humor from the fact that the inhabitantsof Wonderland consider their environment and actions to be completelynormal.
The Frog Footman reacts to the near miss of the flying platewith complete nonchalance, talking on as if nothing had happened.The Frog Footman seems to expect nothing less than total chaos.Alice attempts to fit the Frog Footman’s behavior into a logicalstructure, failing to understand that Wonderland’s order is definedby chaos. She does not realize how close she comes to the truthwith the exclamation that the Frog Footman’s belligerence is “enoughto drive one crazy!” As the Cheshire Cat later explains, Alice mustbe “mad” herself in order to understand the nature of things inWonderland.Even though there seems to be a rigid social structurein Wonderland, the Frog Footman and the Duchess reject normal socialconventions and behave arbitrarily. The presence of a Duchess witha Footman suggests a rigid social order, complete with codes ofconduct. This hierarchy reminds Alice of her own society, but their behaviordestroys any traditional notion of social convention. The Frog Footmanis idiotic and argumentative, and the Duchess exhibits vile andviolent behavior. Traditional social codes are ignored, as the FrogFootman has no comprehension of time and thinks nothing of platesflying at his face.
The Duchess treats her baby rudely and aggressively,and would likely scoff at the ways that Victorian women care fortheir babies. The Duchess’s rhyme emphasizes the rejection of socialconvention, drawing upon a Victorian poem by David Bates that recommendsgentle treatment of babies, a message that the Duchess completelyignores. Alice begins to accept the rejection of tradition and socialorder when she discovers that the baby is in fact a pig, consideringthat other children she knows from home might also “do very wellas pigs. If only one knew the right way to change them.” Despitethe pun on “change” (to change a baby’s diaper, to literally changea baby into a pig), Alice begins to accept the bizarre social behaviorsof Wonderland.The Cheshire Cat explains to Alice that madness is thechief characteristic of the residents of Wonderland, and that tobe in Wonderland is to be mad. In order to exist at all in Wonderland,one must accept its inherent irrationality. The Cheshire Cat reasonsthat in order to accept this irrationality at all, one must be mad.Alice’s unflagging curiosity makes her mad in the Cheshire Cat’seyes, since it characterizes her unique and illogical approach toWonderland’s natives. The Cheshire Cat’s use of the word “mad” punson the word “made,” since everything in Wonderland is fabricated.Alice’s willingness to venture into her own dream means that sheherself is similarly fabricated.
The Cheshire Cat understands thatWonderland and all of its inhabitants exists as a figment of Alice’sdreaming imagination.
The Cheshire Cat is the cat of the Duchess. 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. It constantly grins and can disappear and reappear whenever it likes. Sometimes it disappears and leaves its grin behind. In chapter 8 she meets it again in the Queen’s croquet garden.
In “The Nursery ‘Alice'”, Alice notices that the cat has ‘lovely green eyes’.
The Cheshire Cat is the only character in Wonderland who actually listens to Alice. With his remarks, he teaches Alice the ‘rules’ of Wonderland. He gives her insight in how things work down there.
Carroll 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’.
It is not 100% clear why Carroll named this character ‘Cheshire Cat’. “To grin like a Cheshire Cat” was a common phrase in Carroll’s day. 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.
Another 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. Perhaps this is what inspired Dodgson.
Also, at one time, Cheshire cheeses were molded in the shape of a grinning cat.
Finally, the Cheshire Cat might be inspired by a sedilia in Croft Church.
In Tim Burton’s 2010 movie, the Cheshire Cat’s name is ‘Chessur’.
Famous Cheshire Cat quotes:
“`Cheshire Puss,’ [Alice] began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether it would like the name: however, it only grinned a little wider. `Come, it’s pleased so far,’ thought Alice, and she went on. `Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?’
`That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,’ said the Cat.
`I don’t much care where–‘ said Alice.
`Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,’ said the Cat.
`–so long as I get SOMEWHERE,’ Alice added as an explanation.
`Oh, you’re sure to do that,’ said the Cat, `if you only walk long enough.'”
“`But I don’t want to go among mad people,’ Alice remarked.
`Oh, you can’t help that,’ said the Cat: `we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.’
`How do you know I’m mad?’ said Alice.
`You must be,’ said the Cat, `or you wouldn’t have come here.’
Alice didn’t think that proved it at all; however, she went on `And how do you know that you’re mad?’
`To begin with,’ said the Cat, `a dog’s not mad. You grant that?’
`I suppose so,’ said Alice.
`Well, then,’ the Cat went on, `you see, a dog growls when it’s angry, and wags its tail when it’s pleased. Now I growl when I’m pleased, and wag my tail when I’m angry. Therefore I’m mad.'”