But the whole egg thing is there. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; All the king's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty together again. Nothing about an egg there. Where did the idea he was an egg come from? You can lay that at the feet of author Lewis Carroll whose novel, Through the Looking Glass , contained images of Humpty as an egg.
That portrayal carried forward ever since. You might be asking yourself: if he's not an egg… then what is he? Well, to start with, he's not a he at all… but rather an it. I suspect he was portrayed as an egg in some well read work Possibly Alice Through the Looking Glass and that was then copied by other authors leading to it becoming standard. The other questions is: How do we know Humpty wasn't the king? There is a second verse that implies such , though I don't know where it came from or whether it caused or resulted from the popular image of Humpty Dumpty as an egg.
Devsman If you can get a original and reputable source for that it seems that would be a great answer. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Humpty Dumpty almost certainly wasn't an egg at conception Humpty Dumpty is over years old, originating in the s. Our first clue lies in the original phrasing of the poem; the eponymous Humpty Dumpty is not "put back together again" but rather Four-score Men and Four-score more, Could not make Humpty Dumpty where he was before.
Improve this answer. Plumbing for Ankit Plumbing for Ankit 1, 8 8 silver badges 16 16 bronze badges. So how did Humpty Dumpty become an egg? DavidGrinberg Concrete answers to that are a mystery, and Lewis Carroll is, unfortunately, too dead to tweet a Word of God answer. Skooba the link at the top of the answer. The text is "originating in the s". My quote is found all the way at the end, under Bonus Facts. It's surely because of him that everybody things of Humpty-Dumpty as an egg now, but the idea did not originate with him.
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. The first appearance of the word Humpty Dumpty in print was in , in a slang dictionary, where it is defined as "ale boiled with brandy," with a possible connection being that strong beer was commonly called "hum.
DC Comics portrays Humpty Dumpty as Humphry Dumpler , a man with an egg-shaped head that speaks in rhyme and whose attempts to 'fix' things that he perceives as 'broken' always end in disaster. Use your Grandparents. Please enter your password Remember Me Forgot my Password. Privacy Policy Terms of Service. Forgot Password Get started by entering your email address.
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