Dennisse Pizarro
Have you ever made a connection between your life and the actions you take in it? In Alice in wonderland we get to feel and live her decision by every page we read. Across the book we begin to realize that Alice behavior is hardly unpredictable. Alice unconscious behavior could be a representation of displacement and rationalization, a defense mechanism. As we continue the story, we get a sense of Alice frustration to know who she is and what is happening to her.
According to the Psychology textbook by David Myers, Displacement is an aggressive impulse towards an object or a person that is psychologically more acceptable than the one that aroused the feeling. This is unpredictable, the behavior can be taken on anything but most likely on something that is close or you have a strong interaction with. Unlike rationalization happens unconsciously and it generates a self justifying explanation to hide ourselves from the real reasons of our actions, generally making excuses. This is not so Alice behavior also many of the character that she becomes friends with in this adventure like the Mat Hatter, Rabbit, Mock Turtle and many others. Although, Alice behavior tends to be important so as she has the way to interact but also control people.
Alice, a young girl that at the age of 7 has the opportunity to experience another world, her fantasy brings her to develop her personality in many levels. Her behavior across this world changes and switches in matter of seconds due to the situations she encounters. Her anger for not knowing this new world lets her to think that is okay to displace her anger and find excuses for her actions. Alice encounters with few of the characters like the white rabbit, caterpillar, the duchess, the queen of hearts and a few others make her confuse or which way to go and how to react.
“Rationalization is in which perceived controversial behaviors or feelings that are explained in a rational or logical manner to avoid the true explanation” by an online article. We can see it clearly in page 5 of the book of Alice in Wonderland by John Tenniel while she approaches to herself saying “And what an ignorant little girl she’ll think me for asking! No, I’ll never do to ask: perhaps I shall see it written up somewhere”, in this situation her ability to accept her mistake is already portrait, as she doesn’t say it’s my fault for making thin type of question but no it should have been written first. Her potential of accepting her actions start in the beginning and move her way across her whole story.
Alice thoughts focus on her and how she was feeling plenty of times, it seems to portray that the world revolved around only her. This is one of the reasons when the perspective of her behavior comes down to rationalization, as shown in page 110 when the author clearly states “this piece of rudeness was more than Alice could bear: she got up in great disgust, and walked off”, this happened because her interruption when the Dormouse was saying his story. Alice had the tendency to blame orders for her actions, the Mat Hatter in this situation was just trying to let her know about her mistake but instead she blames them for being rude instead of saying I did a mistake.
The unconscious behavior leads Alice to making mistakes in life. Rationalization and Displacement can be related at the end. Due to displacing the anger of another can let us to blame other for the actions we did. For example the queen in another hand she will cut off people’s heads to take her own anger out and then blame them for her action of doing it.
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