Who is the real Humpty Dumpty?

Answer 1

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall

Humpty Dumpty was a large and famous cannon that was considered unbeatable. The cannon at Edinburgh castle accidentally fell off the castle wall and was damaged beyond repair.

And all the King's horses

And all the King's men

Couldn't put Humpty together again

Answer 2

Humpty Dumpty is a character from an English nursery rhyme. It is typically depicted as an anthropomorphic egg who falls off a wall and cannot be put back together, symbolizing irreparable damage or ruin. There is no historical figure or specific individual associated with the character.

Answer 3

Get this! Not who was Humpty Dumpty? Infact, correctly what was Humpty Dumpty! Humty Dumpty was the name given to an unusally large canon that sat on a wall of a Colchester castle(Eng) in around 1642-1649, in brief the castle was attacked, the Canon fell off, kings men and horses(to shift it) couldn't put it back together again and the strong-hold fell to the Parliment of the day, there you go!

Answer 4

It refers to the Roman Empire. "Great fall" means the fall of this empire. "All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put humpty together again." This refers to Emperor Justinian I.

Answer 5

it is about an egg that sat on a high wall and then fell of and cracked his head! i tteaches you a lesson to never sit on a high wall- to keep your self safe so that you wont end up like humpty dumpty!

Answer 6

It all started in Colchester in England, around 1648,When there was a great war there, Humpty Dumpty was a powerful cannon and the wall it was standing on broke so as the rhyme says "humpty dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty dumpty had a great fall..." then eventually"all the kings horses and all the kings men, coudnt put humpty together again.

Answer 7

humpty dumpty sat on a wall = an egg sitting on a wal

humpty dumpty had a great fall = the stupid fat bum of an egg fell off the wall because it was so fat

all the kings horses = four legged animals owned by a fat grumpy rich man

and all the kings men = two legged male humans owned by the same fat grumpy rich man

couldn't put humpty together again = they FAILED!!!

Answer 8

There were many times in European history that to speak against the monarch or the government would result in imprisonment, confiscation of all you own, and occasionally death. Rhymes like Humpty Dumpty were devised to circumvent the danger by putting political opinions in the form of children's rhymes.

Humpty Dumpty, it is said, was a large and famous cannon at Edinburgh castle that was considered unbeatable. The cannon accidentally fell off the castle wall and was damaged beyond repair.