As of late, we have been analyzing the use of archetypes in many forms of literature, including Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. While there are quite a few archetypes within the novel itself, the characters and events within the story have become archetypes as well. For example, there is a song by the musical group called Jefferson Airplane, that is called "White Rabbit", which is a reference to the rabbit that Alice first sees in the novel. The song continues to go on referencing many other parts of the novel, and within also covers a great deal of drug references, also an underlying theme within Alice's story as well. An additional reference to the drug-induced nature of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is made in the title of a non-fiction journal, Go Ask Alice. This is a journal chronicle of the life of a girl who aims to fit in at all costs essentially, and as a result becomes addicted to drugs and eventually dies as a result of an overdose. This may be a darker reference to the story about Alice, it still relates in the way that it references drugs and, in this case focuses more on the draining and harmful effects they have upon the imbiber. It seems that even the books we study now are beginning to generate archetypes of their own for future generations.
Scott C.
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