The Imagination Of Alice O Brien's Alice In Wonderland

The mental journey through one’s own imagination causes the deconstruction of the characters’ current identity in order for reformation to occur within the individual. Characters begin their quests with already established beliefs, fears, and lifestyles which only a completely immersive mental journey can destroy. Alice enters Wonderland with certain beliefs about science, the world, and how people and animals should behave. She begins her journey thinking she knows all, causing her to become bored with her reality and have little appreciation for her life. Although inquisitive, Alice starts the book close-minded, tentative, and judgmental of others, however, she begins to change as she delves deeper into Wonderland and her mind. As Alice continues to encounter strange, unbelievable things and creatures, she begins to change. O’Brien introduces Paul Berlin as a cowardly man who fears war and combat and does not accept truth and
David Aames becomes a better man by spending time with Sophia, but his subconscious guilt and shame from a previous relationship distort his simulated reality and eventually reveal the world as a dream. Through his time in his lucid dream state, David learns that life cannot contain only “the sweet” (Vanilla Sky), but must also have “sour” (Vanilla Sky) so that he can appreciate the good in life. The artificial reality does not have any “sour” programmed into its matrix, and thus it could never replace real life. At the end of the movie, when confronted with the choice between reality and his imagination, David finally decides to return to reality for a fake life is not one worth living. Just how David gains appreciation for reality, Alice also becomes more appreciative of the stability of her life and no longer finds it