Humpty Dumpty is Jesus

Whereas Jesus is birthed from Mary as a virgin, Humpty is sans-birth, thus taking on a hyper-virgin origin. He is a proto-being. Just as the tragedy of Jesus is in part the penetration of a virgin body (as he is stabbed on the cross by the roman soldier, Longinus), so too the tragedy ofHumpty Dumpty is the destruction of a virgin body.

Humpty Dumpty is hyper-aware of how his name shapes his form. When Humpty says, "my name means the shape I am--and a good handsome shape it is, too" this is a return to the pre-lapsarian role of man, where the word gives form to the shapes. As Humpty explains, "when I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean--neither more nor less." So it is with Jesus.

Humpty, like Jesus, is also the epitomy of paradox--just as Jesus is, as both God and Man. Consider Stillman's, "What is an egg? It is that which has not yet been born. ... how can Humpty Dumpty be alive if he has not been born?

Jesus mirrors the fall of man by dying and embarking on the Harrowing of Hell. So too, Humpty Dumpty surmises the epitome of Man's journey by falling. And just as Humpty Dumpty cannot be put back together again, so to is it that Jesus cannot return to being Jesus after his death--instead, he transforms into the Holy Spirit.