What is the Mad Hatter's name?

Answer 1

In the original book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the Mad Hatter doesn't have a name, he is simply called the Hatter. He also appears in the second book, Through the Looking Glass, where his name is Hatta.

In the 1951 Disney animation, he is called the Mad Hatter.

In the book The Looking Glass Wars, the Mad Hatter's real name is Hatter Maddigan.

In the SYFY rendition, Alice, the Mad Hatter goes by the name David.

In the Batman series, the Mad Hatter's real name is Jervis Tetch.

In Tim Burton's 2010 movie, he is called Tarrant Hightoppand played by Johnny Depp.

Answer 2

The Hatter first appears in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. He turns up again in the sequel, Through the Looking Glass, but his name has been slightly changed to Hatta.

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He appears in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass. Note that the "mad hatter" is only referred to as "the Hatter" although he does appear to be quite mad.

Answer 3

Alice first meets the Hatter at the Mad Tea Party in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. His opening gambit is not promising: `Your hair wants cutting,' said the Hatter. He had been looking at Alice for some time with great curiosity, and this was his first speech.

His next comment has a lot more potential, and has inspired argument and debate ever since it was written: `Why is a raven like a writing-desk?'

When he wrote it, Lewis Carroll didn't intend his riddle to have an answer, but eleven years later, in the preface to the 1896 edition, he wrote that he thought a fairly appropriate answer would be, "Because it can produce a few notes, though very flat; and it is never put with the wrong end in front!"

The Hatter's next utterance, and the similar ones which follow, is often held up as an example of a sentence in which the semantic value of a sentence A is not the same value of the converse of A. According to Wikipedia, in logic and mathematics, this is discussing an inverse relationship: `You might just as well say that "I see what I eat" is the same thing as "I eat what I see"!'

The Hatter then has an argument with the March Hare, who has broken his watch: `What day of the month is it?' he said, turning to Alice: he had taken his watch out of his pocket, and was looking at it uneasily, shaking it every now and then, and holding it to his ear.

Alice considered a little, and then said `The fourth.'

`Two days wrong!' sighed the Hatter. `I told you butter wouldn't suit the works!' he added looking angrily at the March Hare.

`It was the BEST butter,' the March Hare meekly replied.

`Yes, but some crumbs must have got in as well,' the Hatter grumbled: `you shouldn't have put it in with the bread-knife.'

The March Hare took the watch and looked at it gloomily: then he dipped it into his cup of tea, and looked at it again: but he could think of nothing better to say than his first remark, `It was the BEST butter, you know.'

While explaining to Alice why it's always tea-time, he sings a parody of 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star':

"Twinkle, twinkle, little bat! How I wonder what you're at!"

You know the song, perhaps?'

`I've heard something like it,' said Alice.

`It goes on, you know,' the Hatter continued, `in this way:--

"Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky. Twinkle, twinkle--"'

The Dormouse begins to tell a story but: `I want a clean cup,' interrupted the Hatter: `let's all move one place on.'

So they all move one place round, but only the Hatter is any better off, as everyone else just ends up sitting in the dirty spot of the person before them.

Alice considers that the Hatter's next (and final) comment to her is rude enough to cause her to leave the tea party:

`Really, now you ask me,' said Alice, very much confused, `I don't think--'

`Then you shouldn't talk,' said the Hatter.

Alice doesn't see the Hatter again until the trial in Chapter 11, Who Stole the Tarts.

Answer 4

The Hatter's famous question is, "Why is a raven like a writing desk?"

`Your hair wants cutting,' said the Hatter. He had been looking at Alice for some time with great curiosity, and this was his first speech.

`You should learn not to make personal remarks,' Alice said with some severity; `it's very rude.'

The Hatter opened his eyes very wide on hearing this; but all he SAID was, `Why is a raven like a writing-desk?'

Answer 5

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries hat makers were known as 'hatters'. At that time it Mercury was used in the hat making process, but mercury is very toxic and can cause illness which makes the sufferer appear crazy or 'mad'. So many hatters had mercury poisoning that the terms 'as mad as a hatter' and 'mad hatters' entered into common parlance.

Answer 6

Mad. (Hence the name.)

Answer 7

The hatter doesn't have a full name.

Answer 8

The Mad Hatter's name is Tarrant Hightopp.

Answer 9

Tarrent