We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad. But here is the secret the Hatter forgets to tell you: Madness isn’t a disease. It is a cure. Sanity is just a cage where they keep the boring people. I do not bite my tongue. I dissolve it.
I see you counting. One, two, three. You’re trying to ground yourself. Humans do that. They count the stripes on a tiger, the rings on a tree, the seconds on a clock. They believe that if they can quantify the madness, they can cure it. Bless your heart. Cheshire Cat Monologue
"Ah, welcome, welcome, to our little chat. I'm delighted to see you're curious about making paper. A most intriguing pursuit, don't you think? We’re all mad here
Below are monologues and excerpts for the Cheshire Cat from various adaptations of Alice in Wonderland But here is the secret the Hatter forgets
: Use long, lazy pauses. Every word should feel half like a yawn and half like a joke.
Traditionally, a monologue reveals the inner psyche of a character. Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” exposes his suicidal ideation; Eliza Doolittle’s laments expose class frustration. But the Cheshire Cat has no identifiable “inner psyche” in the traditional sense. He is an archetype of the Trickster, a being of pure logic bent into a loop.