Alice the Cat

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When you’ve understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can’t understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom.” – Cheshire Cat

In the 1985 television adaptation of Carroll's books, the Cheshire Cat is portrayed by Telly Savalas. He sings a morose song called "There's No Way Home", which simply drives Alice to try and find a way home even more. In the 1999 television adaptation of Carroll's books, the Cheshire Cat is portrayed by Whoopi Goldberg. She acts as an ally and friend to Alice. Royal Mail launches Alice in Wonderland stamps to celebrate Lewis Carroll classic". Warrington Guardian. Archived from the original on 20 September 2022 . Retrieved 18 September 2022.

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St. John, Judith, ed. (1975). The Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books: A Catalogue. Toronto Public Library. ISBN 0-919486-25-8. OCLC 2405401. How puzzling all these changes are! I’m never sure what I’m going to be, from one minute to another.” – Cheshire Cat The first full major production was Alice in Wonderland, an 1886 musical play in London's West End by Henry Savile Clarke and Walter Slaughter, which played at the Prince of Wales Theatre. Twelve-year-old actress Phoebe Carlo (the first to play Alice) was personally selected by Carroll for the role. [113] Carroll attended a performance on 30 December 1886, writing in his diary he enjoyed it. [114] The musical was frequently revived during West End Christmas seasons during the four decades after its premiere, including a London production at the Globe Theatre in 1888, with Isa Bowman as Alice. [115] [116] Similarly, the Cheshire Cat has been used out of its traditional context to help define another scientific phenomenon, the "Cheshire Cat" escape strategy. When Coccolithophore– a species of successful ocean algae– is able to resist the haploid phase of its life cycle it escapes meiosis and its dominant diploid genes are passed on in a virus-free environment, freeing the host from the danger of infection during reproduction. [35] The algae escape death (beheading) by means of disappearance (vanishing his head):

Characters from the book are depicted on the stained glass windows of Carroll's hometown church, All Saints', in Daresbury, Cheshire. [127] Another commemoration of Carroll's work in his home county of Cheshire is the granite sculpture, The Mad Hatter's Tea Party, located in Warrington. [128] International works based on the book include the Alice in Wonderland statue in Central Park, New York, and the Alice statue in Rymill Park, Adelaide, Australia. [129] [130] In 2015, Alice characters featured on a series of UK postage stamps issued by the Royal Mail to mark the 150th anniversary of the publication of the book. [131] See also [ edit ] Marill, Alvin H. (1993). More Theatre: Stage to Screen to Television. Vol.1. Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-2717-4. OCLC 28183118. Taylor, Robert N., ed. (1985). "Lewis Carroll at Texas". The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin. Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center; University of Texas at Austin. ISSN 0024-2241.Chessur appears in the video game adaptations of the film. He is a playable character in all the three versions of the game, the Wii, PC and DS. His main ability is invisibility, in which he makes targeted objects hidden or reveals invisible objects. Stephen Fry reprises his role from the film. There are many reports that Carroll found inspiration for the name and expression of the Cheshire Cat in the 16th-century sandstone carving of a grinning cat, on the west face of St Wilfrid's Church tower in Grappenhall, a village adjacent to his birthplace in Daresbury, Warrington. All in the golden afternoon..."—the prefatory verse to the book, an original poem by Carroll that recalls the rowing expedition on which he first told the story of Alice's adventures underground Carroll wrote in his memoirs that he "saw a Cheshire cat with a gigantic smile at Brimstage carved into the wall". This refers to a roughly-cut corbel in Brimstage Hall, Wirral (previously in Cheshire) which resembles a smiling cat. This is another possible inspiration for the character. [11] [12]

The following quotes are often mistakenly attributed to the original Alice in Wonderland books. However, they are in fact from other people, songs, or movies based on the books. Alice's Adventures Under Ground". Royal Opera House. Archived from the original on 5 February 2020 . Retrieved 6 February 2020. 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.” – Cheshire Cat Day, David (24 August 2015). "The Cheshire Cat's Grin: Solving the greatest mystery of Wonderland, 150years later". The Walrus.Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, “What road do I take?” The cat asked, “Where do you want to go?” “I don’t know,” Alice answered. “Then,” said the cat, “it really doesn’t matter, does it?” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland I quite agree with you,” said the Duchess; “and the moral of that is–‘Be what you would seem to be’–or if you’d like it put more simply–‘Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.'” There is a suggestion that Carroll found inspiration for the name and expression of the Cheshire Cat in the 16thcentury sandstone carving of a grinning cat, on the west face of StWilfrid's Church tower in Grappenhall, a village 4.9mi (7.9km) from his birthplace in Daresbury, Cheshire. [10] In Batman: The Animated Series, a girl is based on Alice, having the same features and the same name as her, in the episode "Mad as a Hatter." However, she isn't seen again after the episode.