Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Bazzanini Elena, Casagrande Luana, Covello Giorgia, Monello Loretta

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

"Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality"

Lewis Carroll

- Alice's Adeventures in Wonderland

The little Alice Liddell

The youngest daughter one of his friends.She ispired Carroll for the Alice character.

Lewis carroll

The writer

Why alice?

Alice is the perfect protagonist of a dream, her story is a travel in the unconscious and her adventures are irrealistic and surreal. When we read about Alice we can see that she isn't a normal child, in her dream she expressed her wish to know about adulthood without leaving her childhood.

In this story many metaphors convey the message, they are symbols that are a clear reference to the dream universe. And maybe Alice will forget everything when she wakes up from her childish mind, exactly like after a dream.

Our choice of Alice in Wonderland comes from it's perfect combination of the madness of Alice’s journey in this fantastic way and the subject of dream.

Carroll has managed, with his imagination, to create the dream of Alice in Wonderland: a surreal world seen from the eyes of Alice, who interprets it through the knowledge and expectations of a little girl, a little girl who, despite the her fears, is guided by wonder, thus getting to know Wonderland with its inhabitants. This is precisely what drew me to Carroll's world as well.

The children are the true essence of pure and immature madness.

The writer Lewis Carroll manages to take this essence personifying it in a child: the little Alice. Alice is lost in a surreal world, an unknown world, a world that unconsciously belongs to her. The same thing happen in human dreams but we don't know the meaning of the images that we see. This happenes despite the fact that images are made by our minds. Lewis Carroll wrote about a dreamlike universe, an universe born out of Alice's doubts, fears, difficulties and frustrations.

Alice falls asleep at the foot of a tree and dreams.

ALL STARTS FROM THIS EVENT.

subconscious & characters

Alice gets to know characters who are representation of her subconscious, such as the feelings or the madness itself so much praised throughout the story. Alice herself is called crazy, and I just like how she interacts with madness, how she achieves the knowledge of what she does not know and that breaks her mental patterns.

Every character that Alice meets in the story hides a teaching under an ambiguous behavior.Like Carroll in this tale, Freud in psychoanalysis associates a simbolic means to every element of dream, interpreting even the least interpretable.

She dreams to follow a white rabbit and to fall in his hole.She dreams a mad angry queen. She dreams a talking cat and a wise caterpillar. She dreams a duchess, a turtle and a lobster. She dreams a white and black knight. She dreams a mushroom, a cake and a drink.

the dream growths

Dreams are a reflection of our real life, and indirectly tell us how our life is going:

• We have nightmares if we are stressed.
• We have good dreams if we are calm.

Alice is ready to grow up, but like everyone, needs help.This growth happenes by dreaming. This is a dreamlike experience that is able to manifest itself in different forms and it does have different interpretations.

This dream for Alice becomes the means to understand the world and to know herself.

In this story Lewis Carroll combines adventure and fear with the happiness and tranquillity.

So, we love the idea of using dreams to get to know ourselves better, to understand, interpreting our dream travels, what our body and our subconscious have to say, and Carroll has succeeded, among the multitude of symbolisms he created, to represent this too.

After all, we are only a piece of big puzzle that is the world.

"Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle."

Lewis Carroll

- Alice's Adeventures in Wonderland