Mad As A Hatter Character Analysis

In the Batman: The Animated Series, season one, episode twenty-seven, “Mad as a Hatter”, Jervis Tetch is a scientist that is working for Bruce Wayne to create circuitry to control minds of others. First, he tests the circuitry on mice, then moves up to humans. He uses cards with the number 10/6 on them in order to control the minds of other people. Jervis is in love with Alice but, unfortunately for him, she has a boyfriend. Jervis eavesdrops on Alice and he realizes that her boyfriend, Billy, had broken up with her. Alice was crying intensely and Jervis uses the phrase “curiouser and curiouser.” Jervis learns that Alice is upset and broken and he decides to take her out to cheer her up and to attempt to convince her to fall for him instead. Jervis’s obsession with Alice and his change of personality are similar to that of the Beast from Beauty and The Beast. Jervis’s and the Beast’s change of personality are very similar because both of their lives are altered due to an infatuation with a woman. Jervis obsesses with both the thought of Alice and his lust of control and he lets it take over …show more content…
He knows now that having such a hateful personality only brings himself and others pain and misery. Therefore, he began his upward spiral when he meets Beauty. He becomes caring and loving towards her, which is the complete opposite of how Jervis is with Alice after her breakup. He believes power and confidence are the only things a woman truly cares about. He becomes the Mad Hatter also so she and others will no longer walk over him because before, he was a borderline pushover. Everyone, including Doctor Cates would tell him what to do or how he was not doing a well job at his experiments. When he finally grew tired of it, he changed into the person no one wanted to be with or be