Alice no País das Maravilhas lida à luz dos ritos de puberdade. Um contributo de Mircea Eliade

Abstract

The aim of this article is to study the initiation motives that accompany Alice’s transformation in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, focusing on rites of puberty in a hermeneutic perspective and with the contribution of Mircea Eliade. The study is methodologically structured in three parts: the contribution of Mircea Eliade to understand the rites of female puberty; the symbolic interpretation of these rites in Alice; and the reflection about Alice’s re-birth, her passage to adolescence, and the exit of space-time from childhood fantasy.