![]() ![]() ![]() 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. 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. nature of childhood and growing up in the Victorian era, in the mid-twentieth century, and at the beginning of the 21st century. Erikson's and James Marcia's identity theories in order to reach conclusions pertaining to the. Alice's identity crisis identified in each of the Alice works was observed in view of Erik H. The 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). Secondly, it will critically examine the backdrop in the film text as a crucial deviation from the source text. First, the article would analyse the spatial significance of ‘Malgudi’ in relation to the author’s style of representing the Indian nation in the printed text. This article aims to probe into this relationship between “the human and the topographical” by making a relative study of the presence of Malgudi (and its surrounding places) in the The Guide (1958) and the absence of it in Guide (1965)-the cinematic adaptation of the novel. Though Malgudi is an imaginary town, it has been regarded as “a real living presence” (Hariprasanna, 1994: 23) that “operates at two levels, the human and the topographical” (Hariprasanna, 1994: 23). Narayan’s fiction, the town of Malgudi exudes such an in-depth connection with the characters living in and around it. A study of the cultural ethos of a community initiates a dialogue between the people of that community and the place where the cultural ethos either originated or flourished. ![]()
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