Chapter 5
The Caterpillar on the mushroom with hookah — frequently cited (especially since the 1960s) as drug allegory, though scholars largely reject this as anachronistic.
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From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Several passages have generated enduring debate: drug-culture readings of the Caterpillar and mushroom, psychoanalytic readings of size-change, and biographical questions about Carroll's relationship with Alice Liddell.
Chapter 1
The bottles labeled 'DRINK ME' and cakes labeled 'EAT ME' have been read psychoanalytically as oral fixation and as innocent fairy-tale logic alike.
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The closing meditation on Alice's grown womanhood has been read both as tender and as troublingly possessive, central to debates about Carroll's relationship with Alice Liddell.
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