And we all now know the dangers of being exposed to mercury. Mercury poisoning from the prolonged exposure to the vapors of mercury causes uncontrollable muscular tremors, distorted vision and confused speech, not to mention hallucinations and other psychotic symptoms. Dementia was a common ailment for Victorian-era hat makers. Often seen standing at the door to his Oxford shop with his infamous top hat perched on the back of his head. Could Theo have come in contact with mercury vapors while making and upholstering furniture?
How did the process for using mercury to cure felt begin? It seems that it can be traced back to the Middle East where camel hair was used for the felt material from which fez hats are made. The demand for these hats was tremendous after Sultan Mahud made them fashionable and mandatory for his military.
It was discovered, quite by accident, that the felting process could be hurried up if the pelts were soaked with urine, camel urine to be specific. The fashion for felt hats moved north into Europe and with it the manufacturing. But, camel urine was unavailable. But Lewis Carroll did not invent the phrase, although he did create the character. The phrases "mad as a hatter" and "mad as a March hare" were common at the time Lewis Carroll wrote was the first publication date of Alice.
The phrase had been in common use in , almost 30 years earlier. Carroll frequently used common expressions, songs, nursery rhymes, etc. The chemicals used in hat-making included mercurious nitrate, used in curing felt. Prolonged exposure to the mercury vapors caused mercury poisoning. Advanced cases developed hallucinations and other psychotic symptoms.
The hatters were exposed to the mercury fumes, which would have been long dissipated or of insignificant strength by the time the hat was worn. This use of mercury is now subject to severe legal restrictions if not banned in the U. While this is the most widely accepted origin of the phrase, there are those who believe that the phrase was originally "mad as an adder" meaning poisonous as the snake which degenerated to hatter. Sounds pretty flimsy to me, but then etymology is not an empirical science.
There have been many guesses about whether Carroll was satirizing any particular individual with his Mad Hatter, or whether Tenniel the first and most famous illustrator of Alice was caricaturing anyone.
Speculation ranges from Theophilus Carter, a furniture dealer near Oxford most likely to Prime Minister Gladstone highly implausible. Dropping the H, "Mad Adder" could imply a mathematician, such as Carroll himself. He bids her farewell, and she leaves. Tarrant's origins involve him with the Hightopp Clan, which was destroyed by the Jabberwock, sent by the Red Queen during a visit by the White Queen to their village on the "Horevendush Day". Though the White Queen was safely spirited away, the Vorpal Sword as well as her crown was lost in the confusion.
Tarrant is the only member of his clan left- everybody and everything else was killed or burned to the ground. Tarrant only escaped the destruction because he led the White queen's panicked horse away from the intial attack.
He returns after to find the village burnt to the ground, a shocked look on his face he bends down to pick up his trademark hat. When we next see his face it is clear from the half smile that his sanity has shattered.
A scene of Tarrant's past can be seen-the Jabberwock blowing fire down on the clan, when he and Alice are traveling and they pass through the remains of his home, causing him to briefly flash back to the destruction. The destruction of his clan broke something in Tarrant's mind - causing him to become detatched from reality and also develop a slight split personality - even Hatter's wardrobe and Hatter's skin changed to a darker mood after Horvendush day.
When he becomes upset, his eyes change from green to a golden yellow. The skin around his eyes also turns black and he begins speaking in a noticeable Scottish brogue. Also, because of the mood ring colors, his clothes' colors sometimes change to darker themes.
Tarrant can become very violent during heis utter rage scenes; often someone needs to snaps him out of it or he can become dangerous. Mallymkun the Dormouse snaps him out of it the first time by shouting, "Hatter!!
Alice later snaps him out of one of his episodes when he is imprisoned at the Red Queen's castle making hats. Tarrant himself is vagely aware of his personality problem telling Alice that he has to get out of the Red Queen's castle saying it's getting harder for him to think clearly there.
It is implied he has a crush on Alice, although Johnny Depp, who portray the Hatter, said in a Facebook feaurette also found on youtube that Tarrant and Alice "complete each other as a brother and sister would. He is very protective of her and she is very protective of him. However, in spite of the fact that Woolverton had written the Hatter's character with Johnny Depp in mind, once the actor was actually cast the script was rewritten to exlcude the romance and the character rewritten to suit Depp [3].
For many of Alice fans, Burton and Depp's Mad Hatter was completely different from the one in the books. The film portrays him as a tortured action hero while in the books he was an eccentric man and an antagonist to Alice.
Alice in Wonderland Wiki Explore. In other media. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? The Mad Hatter. View source. History Talk 2. Tarrant Hightopps' apparance before Horunvendush day.
Mad Hatter before Red Queens war against Underland. Universal Conquest Wiki. Illustration by Sir James Tenniel.
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