Cuanan, Julyca M.
LITERARY CRITISM
BSED English 3
PSYCHOANALYTIC APPROACH:
Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland
Psychoanalytic Approach is all about analyzing the characters’ mind in a literary piece using
the three personality structures that Sigmund Freud identified: Id, Ego, and Superego. This analysis
will focus on how Alice, the protagonist in the literary piece Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. It
would answer the questions of what are the desires of Alice herself, how she battled against her own
thoughts, and how she followed some rules or things even though it totally against what she
believed, but it was what the society or the world she entered think that is correct and true. I will
provide some scenarios where Alice showed the three personality structures in the story.
A. ID
Id is defined as the unconscious part of our mind where in we seek to bring ourselves
pleasure. Example of Id is us getting hunger and we are having the desire to eat the moment. Our
body is having the urges to eat, that part is our Id personality.
Alice’s Id
In the story, it starts when Alice and her sister were sitting under a tree. Alice’s sister
were reading a book without pictures -- just purely conversations and Alice felt bored by just
looking at it. All of a sudden, a white rabbit with a pocket while bringing a watch saying that it is
going to be late ran past them. Alice thought that there was nothing really strange in seeing a rabbit,
however, it is very unusual to see a rabbit with pocket and looking at the watch for time! Alice got
so curious and had the desire to follow the mysterious white rabbit without inhibitions. That was the
first scenario where Alice represented her Id personality. Having the desires and the urges to do
something, not even thinking if it is allowed for Alice to follow the white rabbit.
Another scenario when Alice shown her desires was when she saw some doors and
wanted to open them but can’t. She then saw some keys, but they are not fitted with the other doors
except with one small key wherein she was able to open a door, but too small. She can’t enter.
LITERARY CRITISM
BSED English 3
PSYCHOANALYTIC APPROACH:
Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland
Psychoanalytic Approach is all about analyzing the characters’ mind in a literary piece using
the three personality structures that Sigmund Freud identified: Id, Ego, and Superego. This analysis
will focus on how Alice, the protagonist in the literary piece Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. It
would answer the questions of what are the desires of Alice herself, how she battled against her own
thoughts, and how she followed some rules or things even though it totally against what she
believed, but it was what the society or the world she entered think that is correct and true. I will
provide some scenarios where Alice showed the three personality structures in the story.
A. ID
Id is defined as the unconscious part of our mind where in we seek to bring ourselves
pleasure. Example of Id is us getting hunger and we are having the desire to eat the moment. Our
body is having the urges to eat, that part is our Id personality.
Alice’s Id
In the story, it starts when Alice and her sister were sitting under a tree. Alice’s sister
were reading a book without pictures -- just purely conversations and Alice felt bored by just
looking at it. All of a sudden, a white rabbit with a pocket while bringing a watch saying that it is
going to be late ran past them. Alice thought that there was nothing really strange in seeing a rabbit,
however, it is very unusual to see a rabbit with pocket and looking at the watch for time! Alice got
so curious and had the desire to follow the mysterious white rabbit without inhibitions. That was the
first scenario where Alice represented her Id personality. Having the desires and the urges to do
something, not even thinking if it is allowed for Alice to follow the white rabbit.
Another scenario when Alice shown her desires was when she saw some doors and
wanted to open them but can’t. She then saw some keys, but they are not fitted with the other doors
except with one small key wherein she was able to open a door, but too small. She can’t enter.
