WHO ARE YOU?: ALICE ON A JOURNEY TO HER SELF

Abstract

The article explores Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, and more specifically how Alice seeks for her self in Wonderland. Two prisms are combined for the purpose: Freud’s dream interpretation and Vladimir Propp’s initiation in the fairy tales. Applied together Alice’s journey in Wonderland is considered as a dream initiation in which she must find her self in order to return back home. The paper focuses on the meeting of Alice and the Caterpillar since this conversation is a crucial part of the initiation path.