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'Vorpal sword' and 'vorpal blade' are phrases in Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem 'Jabberwocky', which have been taken up in several other media. Carroll never provided a definition of what it really meant.[1] The term has been adopted by the roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons, where 'vorpal' blades have the ability to decapitate opponents on lucky strikes.[2]
Context and definition[edit]
Carroll published Through the Looking-Glass in 1871. Near the beginning, Alice discovers and reads the poem 'Jabberwocky', which Humpty Dumpty later attempts to explain, to her increasing consternation. One of the poem's several nonsense adjectives, 'vorpal' is twice used to describe the sword a young hero employs to slay the poem's titular monster:[1]
He took his vorpal sword in hand,
longtime the manxsome foe he sought
So rested he by the Tum-Tum Tree
And stood awhile in thought.
And later,
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
As with much of the poem's vocabulary, the reader is left to guess at the meaning of 'vorpal' from the context. As befits the sword in a heroic ballad, 'vorpal' is frequently assumed to mean deadly or sharp. Carroll himself explained that many of the poem's words were portmanteau words playfully combining existing words from English, such that 'frumious' meant 'fuming and furious', 'mimsy' meant 'flimsy and miserable' and 'slithy' meant 'lithe and slimy'. Carroll seems never to have supplied meaning for 'vorpal', at one point writing, 'I am afraid I can't explain 'vorpal blade' for you—nor yet 'tulgey wood'',[3] although Alexander L. Taylor notes (in his Carroll biography The White Knight) that 'vorpal' can be formed by taking letters alternately from 'verbal' and 'gospel'.[4]
References[edit]
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- ^ abGardner, Martin, ed. (1971) [1960]. The Annotated Alice. New York: The World Publishing Company. p. 153.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
- ^'SRD:Vorpal - D&D Wiki'. www.dandwiki.com. Retrieved 2016-07-03.
- ^Graham, Eleanor (1981). Lewis Carroll and the Writing of Through The Looking Glass, Introduction to Through The Looking Glass in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland/Through The Looking Glass. Puffin Books.
- ^Taylor, Alexander (1952). The White Knight. Oliver & Boyd.
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- June 14, 2011
Alice Madness Returns Vorpal Blade Replica
We are all too familiar with Disney cartoons, so everyone will know right away when it comes to Alice, a girl lost in wonderland. Coming to Spicy Horse, a Chinese studio developer came up with an anime adaptation of the movie, but it was a bit more creepy than Alice: Madness Returns. The game is full of psychedelic eccentricity with extremely thrilling adventure activities. Released by Electronic Arts for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 systems. The game revolves around the character Alice Liddell, a girl traumatized by the death of her family trying to find her past to escaping from trauma and accidentally straying into the wonderland, where an evil force is possessed. Alice: Madness Returns is played from a third-person perspective. Players will control the character Alice to run, dodge or attack. In addition to the other weapons, her main weapon is the Vorpal blade, a kitchen knife. By collecting teeth that have been dropped or found at levels, players can upgrade these items to more powerful versions. Completing quests on all levels will help players uncover the secrets of Alice’s memories.