![]() Most of all, at Alice's trial, when the White Rabbit is taking a long time to read all the charges, she snaps at him, "Never mind all that! Get to the part where I lose my temper!" She says it with a sense of glee, twiddling her fingers giddily and with a tone of excitement in her voice, indicating that hearing about her outbursts is something she thoroughly enjoys. When she orders the beheading of the cards that painted her roses red, the crowd cheers, and she looks very pleased that she made this decision and that the crowd approves of it. She reminds Alice at one point, "If I lose my temper, you lose your head," indicating that she is fully aware of her power and wants everyone else to as well. ![]() ![]() The Queen of Hearts seems to enjoy her anger management problems in a way. Her immediate solution to every problem is beheading whether her roses have been planted white, she misses a shot in croquet or feels insulted in any way. Like any insane person, she has huge uncontrollable mood swings, from content to enraged at a moment's notice. She is very egotistical, as she likes to hear the words "Yes, Your Majesty" and insists that "All ways are my ways!" She is also shown to be a rather childish character, even in the face of Alice, as she is incredibly impatient, irrationally sensitive, prone to temper tantrums, and, as stated above, rather egotistical. All the residents of Wonderland are mad (insane) in some way, but the Queen of Hearts is the most dangerous of them all by being the ruler of the land. The Queen of Hearts has a very psychotic personality. The most frequent victims of this cruel practice are none other than her own card guards. Those who upset the Queen in any way are immediately subjected to a gruesome death by beheading. She is known for her unruly and extremely fragile temper. The Queen resides in a nearly colorless kingdom surrounded by a series of maze-like hedges and guarded by an army of anthropomorphic card soldiers. She completely dominates her weak husband, the diminutive King of Hearts, who acts more like an advisor than a monarch. It is a price tag, displaying the price ‘ten and six’: 10 shillings and 6 pennies.According to the Cheshire Cat, all of Wonderland is under the Queen of Hearts's authority. Many people wonder about the tag on the Mad Hatter’s hat. It is also often suggested that Tenniel made the Mad Hatter resemble the politician Disraeli, but other people argument that he was based on a local furniture dealer called Carter, or on Thomas Randall, an Oxford tailor. Carter was known in the area as the Mad Hatter, partly because he always wore a top hat and because of his eccentric ideas. ‘Mad as a hatter’ probably owes its origin to the fact that hatters actually did go mad, because the mercury they used sometimes gave them mercury poisoning.Ĭarroll may have asked Tenniel to draw the Mad Hatter to resemble Theophilus Carter, a furniture dealer near Oxford. The phrase ‘mad as a hatter’ was common in Carroll’s time. In Tim Burton’s 2010 movie, the Hatter’s name is Tarrant Hightopp. In ‘Through the Looking-Glass’, the Hatter returns in the form of the Anglo-Saxon messenger ‘Hatta’.Īlthough everybody calls him ‘the Mad Hatter’, Lewis Carroll never actually called him that in the story. The Hatter is mentioned in chapter 7 and 11 from the book “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”. When he is called upon by the Queen, he is very nervous and frightened. He occasionally is very rude and provokes Alice during the tea party. Later he also appears as a witness during the trial. The Mad Hatter is one of the members of the Mad Tea Party.
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