How do you know I'm mad?

We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.

Madness. Insanity. The crazy people. Hysteria. I touched up a little bit on madness in my response paper for Alice. My research question will be: "How does the Victorian version of madness play a part with the characters Alice meets?" To simplify, the characters that Alice meets are, as the cheshire cat states, "they're all mad. I'm mad too." Since the victorian version of "mad" is vastly different from our version, are some of the characters actually, "mad?"

By this I mean I will be doing some deep character analysis for three of the characters. The Mad Hatter, Cheshire cat, and the Queen. Were they actually mad? If so, how would the characters have actually reacted to Alice? Would they have been as nice as they were to her, or different? Or, Why were they so nice to Alice if they really were mad?

I hope that this would seem manageable, it feels manageable but I may be putting too much on my plate. Please say so if you feel it is.