I think that John Tenniel's illustrations become the touchpoint for all later images of Humpty," says Magyarody. What's interesting is that Alice's version is a distortion — she replaces 'Couldn't put Humpty together again' with 'Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty in his place again,' thereby removing the violent egg-breaking of the original into something gentler.
Humpty isn't satisfied with her innovation, and dislikes being called an egg. In the s, an article in Oxford magazine wrote a spoof article whose theory ended up taking hold. It purported that Humpty Dumpty was in fact a cannon in Colchester, England, that was used during a siege during the English Civil War.
The village, including its churches and its castle, were surrounded by a protective stone wall. At St. Mary's at the Wall Church, the forces defending the town put a cannon on top of the church tower and nicknamed it Humpty Dumpty. When it came under fire by Parliamentary armies who targeted the foundations the cannon was on , the tower toppled, killing 'one-eyed' Jack Thompson, who was manning the cannon.
Both tower, man and cannon were destroyed and couldn't be put back together again. However, historians doubt this is the real explanation. Another theory holds that Humpty Dumpty is really a drink. Popular on Considerable. Sponsored Content. Continue Reading. High blood pressure, known as hypertension, increases the risk of stroke and usually increases as Continue Reading.
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Well, apparently it's all thanks to Lewis Carroll yes, he of 'Alice in Wonderland' fame and his novel 'Through the Looking-Glass'.
Chapter six of the book is entitled 'Humpty Dumpty' and apparently, it's here that Humpty first appeared as an egg. Much like an omelette in a stainless steel pan, this portrayal of Humpty apparently stuck sorry again and he's been an egg ever since. But while Carroll may have introduced Humpty as an egg, he can't be credited with the original nursery rhyme.
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