The meaning of cheshire cat in alice and wonderland?

Question

What is the real meaning for the cat, ive looked at descriptions but it doesnt tell me enough i need to know what he is standing for in the book/movie...I would rather have a description on why you think he is there and what you think the meaning of him is.

Answer 1

In order to understand the Chesire cat - one must understand the world in which he lives in - Wonderland, a place where everything is illogical and nonsense. But the cat makes you think in a philosophical way.

Example:
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."

And also:

"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."

The cat is an enigma – perhaps symbolizing the mystery of Wonderland itself. Of how nonsense has a way of making sense. The Cheshire cat to me is the one character of Wonderland who does make a kind of sense to me.

He knows he's mad. Tell me - is there any other characters in Wonderland who accepts that they are mad? I don't think so (but it's been a while since I've read the book)

The cat comes and he goes - he's is and he isn't - he's there then he's not.... When the queen tries to behead the cat, he disappears, but his head remains and he asks, “can something that does not have a body be beheaded?”

LoL - the cat outsmarts them all.

I love the Cheshire cat!

Answer 2

Alice In Wonderland Cat

Answer 3

Cheshire Cat Character

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The meaning of cheshire cat in alice and wonderland?
What is the real meaning for the cat, ive looked at descriptions but it doesnt tell me enough i need to know what he is standing for in the book/movie...I would rather have a description on why you think he is there and what you think the meaning of him is.

Answer 5

Cheshire is a part of the U.K. the cat is based on a string of murders in witch the wrong person was beheaded for the crime, whom was a philosopher in 1860, the cat was a dedcation to the insanity an un fair exacution of indeviduals during the time an the first copy of the book is worth over $10,000usd

Answer 6

Part of this episode is a refutation of Plato's philosphy. Plato surmised that the idea is what is real or the truth. For example if we draw a circle And show it to someone they would describe it as a cirle. However the drawing would not be a circle according to its definition as it would have to be perfectly round. Therefore it is the idea that is the truth and what is real. So when the chesire cat starts to disappear and only its smile remains Alice remarks " curious, I have seen a cat with a smile before but never I smile without a cat". Ofcourse there can not be a smile without a cat just as there cant be a circle without a circle. This is a crude explantion but I believe in the vein that he was going for.

Answer 7

I feel like he's a metaphor for a different drug addiction, Just like a lot of the character's she crosses, They appear as a distraction from following the white rabbit ( Which is a metaphor for Lewis Carols own life goals, The white rabbit is why Alice is there in the first place ). The Cheshire Cat's tail appears as though it's the Queen's tail, then they put their faces together to show more similarities. The queen being a metaphor the Monarchy and corporate figureheads ( "Your way! Always hear my way!" and Alice "I was just thinking -" The Queen " Curtsey while your thinking, it will save time") the Cat symbolising and what i think is a cocaine addiction, It helps explain her horrible temper.
He also says to alice when he appears on the queens back "I say, How are you getting on?" Alice says " Not at all! " "I beg your pardon?" " I said Not at all!", which i saw to be similar to when she literally kicks the opium from her foot when she leaves mister caterpillar. When the cheshire pulls the queen's dress over her head and she's embarrassed, I think that's her revealing her drug addiction to everyone.
I do not think i'm correct either, just how i interpreted it.

Answer 8

The cat represents the illogical can make sense.

See, through induction, we can make sense from illogical statements, and draw logical conclusions in other words, and you will see that logic DEFINES the illogical, and therefore when something that is said to be illogical inductive truth, it becomes a truth in this world.

Truth is just that. Having two sources from which to choose is key, but if everything is logical, then why does the cat exist? The cat exists because in the world of logic it doesn't. The cat is telling you this in an illogical way, therefore inductively apply itself as logic also, since both are predicated on each other, that if you define something as logical, you might as well say everything that isn't, is logically, illogical, and there and in of itself completes the circle of choice.

It's a choice, not a doing. It's choices that are the truths, not the logical, or illogical, because the idea of that is illogical, because things that are illogical, are logically so.

Answer 9

A really cool and enigmatic character.

I've always liked the Cheshire Cat. To me the Chershire Cat and Captain Ahab are two of the most interesting characterizations in literature.

Both tend to defy definition or are open to many definitions and interpretations.

The Cheshire Cat represents to me existential wisdom materialized!

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