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Alice Through the Ages: Childhood and Adaptation

2016; Volume: 4; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.21066/carcl.libri.2015-04(02).0001

1848-5871

Željka Flegar, Tena Wertag,

Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies

A great turning point in children's literature occurred in 1865, when Lewis Carroll wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.Since then, modern children's fantasy has developed and thrived.The standard for this genre was established, and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was and still is considered the first children's masterpiece of modern fantasy.Lewis Carroll created a supernatural world populatedThe paper is an identity-based analysis of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and two film adaptations, Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (2010).Alice's identity crisis identified in each of the Alice works was observed in view of Erik H. Erikson's and James Marcia's identity theories in order to reach conclusions pertaining to the nature of childhood and growing up in the Victorian era, in the mid-twentieth century, and at the beginning of the 21st century.As the three different Alice characters originated in different historical periods, their identity issues conditioned by their culture, society and circumstances reveal three different processes of identity formation.Due to the fact that while creating their adaptations both Walt Disney and Tim Burton relied on the expectations of their audiences more than the spirit of the literary original, much like Carroll's work these adaptations serve as a good reference in reflecting the historical and cultural changes of children's position in society.