Character History
The hero of the fairy tale "Alice in Wonderland" of the authorship of Lewis Carroll. A cat that shows unusual for an animal ability - he knows how to talk, smile and slowly dissolve in space, so in the end one smile remains, which hangs in the air. Can also teleport. Entertains conversations the main character - Alice, and at times bored with that philosophical fabrication.History of creation and image
In the original version of the fairy tale about Alis Cheshire Cat was not. The hero first appears in 1865. The image of Cheshire cat grows from the English saying "smiles, like Cheshire Cat" ("Grin Like a Cheshire Cat") in the meaning of "grin sardonically". There are two versions where this expression came from, and why it affected the formation of the cat's image at Carroll.
Carroll comes from Cheshire's county, where images of smiling cats were concerned about the doors of the Kabaki. In theory, these drawn animals were to be noble lions and leopards, grinning grazing. But in English county, few people were lucky enough to see a real lion, so these images have more like ordinary domestic cats with an uncharacteristic face for cat expression. And this image was a sign writer since childhood.
Another explanation binds the origin of the image of the Cheshire Cat with famous cheeses that were manufactured in County Cheshire. It is believed that these cheeses were attached to the shape, similar to the cat's head, which smiles.
Borges in the "book of fictional creatures" offers a couple of versions. One of them comes down to the fact that even cats laughed over the high title of small County Cheshire, "and the other to the fact that
"During the reign of Richard III in Cheshire, a forestry catering lived in Cheshire, who, when she caught poachers, grinned viciously."Lewis Carroll's parent served as a priest in a small village Croft, where the church was decorated with carved ornaments, which young Carroll could inspire, coming up with Cheshire cat. In addition, by County Cheshire walked a bike about a ghost cat, which has the ability to arise and evaporate.
Cheshire cat in the book arises on Alice's way several times. For the first time, the heroine sees a cat in the Duchess house, in the kitchen, where the scene is with a baby, which turns into a pig. Then the cat occurs on the tree branch to inform Alice about the Martam hare and the insane hatchnik, which live nearby. For the third time, the cat appears on the game in a crocketh, where the queen wants to cut off the hero head, but cannot, because from the cat only the head and remains, and that slowly dissolves in space.
Shielding
Cheshire cat appears in the animated film "Alice in Wonderland", released Disney Studio in 1951. In the original voice acting, the cat tells the voice of the American actor Sterling Hollowue, and Alexander Voevodin voiced in Russian dubling. Voi Vojvodina also speaks Old Bilbo Baggins in the films "Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" (2012) and "Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Militans" (2014).
Directed by Tim Burton shot two film enclosures of Carroll's books about Alice - "Alice in Wonderland" (2010) and Alice in the Casmodeer (2016). Cheshire cat in the form of an animation character appears and there, and there.
The hero looks like a big gray cat with a toothy smile, phosphorious eyes and blue wool stripes. Jumping cats British actor and writer Stephen Fry. Berthon Cheshire Cat has additional abilities - for example, changes the appeal, turning into a mad hat.
On the films released a computer game where you can play for the Cheshire Cat. There hero has the ability to hide things and, on the contrary, make a hidden visible.
In the first film of Burton, Cheshire Cat together with Alice is present on the insane tea party, where the hatchnik and the March hare tell the heroine about the "bloody witch" of the Red Queen, which arranged terror in Wonderland. Later, Cheshire Cat saves a hatter that is going to execute the cut-off of the head.
The cat replaces the halter on the plate and disappears from under the falling ax at the last moment, after which it appears again - in the form of one head hanging in the air. In the final, Cheshire cat relieves the crown from the head of the defeated Red Queen and gives the White Queen.
In 2013-2014, the series "Once in Wonderland" - Spin-Off the series "Once in a fairy tale" came out on the American TV channel "ABC". There the character looks sinister black cat with red eyes, but takes a neutral position. Jumping Cat actor Kit David.
Interesting Facts
- The image of the Cheshire cat widely divided in culture, in particular, in the literature. Writers "borrowed" and played it to their own way. For example, And Angeya Sapkovsky, the author of Fantasy-Saga "The Witcher", there is a story "Golden Nuth", where the story is conducted on behalf of Cheshire cat, and the cat itself is depicted by the cat's God and the lord of cats.
- The image of Cheshire cat also arises in the book "Automatic Alice" Jeff Nuna, where explains how the hero can disappear and appear.
- The character appears in the novels of the British writer Jasper Ffiffe. There Cheshire Cat serves as a librarian in the Great Library of the Bookomierry.
- Some authors make Cheshire cat with a negative character. Such a hero appears in the series of books "War of the Warmhouse" of the authorship of Frank Hoodor. There the cat is a cruel killer, which looks like a terrible cat-made humanoid, but knows how to take the appearance of a black kitten. The character has nine lives, but eight of them the killer loses the end of the first book.
- Another brutal version of Cheshire Cat is a tattoo covered, skinny and bony - appears in the American McGee's Alice and Alice: Madness Returns video games. There the character appears as a guide and satellite of a game character - Alice. Cheshire cat is depicted by a maniac sadist with huge claws that look like a razor, in Zenescope comics.
- Roger Zelaznos in the series of novels "Chronicles of Ambore" among the enormous number of existing worlds describes the universe of the Carrollovian country of miracles, where the Cheshire cat appears among other residents. There, the hero becomes a specialist in magical knowledge.
Quotes
"- What am the madness? - Alisa said."You can not do anything," the cat objected. "We are all here not in your mind - and you and me."
- How do you know that I am not in my mind? Asked Alice.
"Of course, not in my own," the cat replied. - Otherwise, how would you come here? "