The Hero's Journey: Alice in Wonderland The Hero's Journey is a narrative pattern that appears in novels, storytelling, myth, and religious ritual. It was first identified by the American scholar Joseph Campbell in his book A Hero with Thousand Faces. Campbell also discussed this model in his interview with Bill Moyers, later published as the book The Power of Myths. This pattern describes the typical adventure of the archetype known as The Hero, the person who goes out and accomplishes great deeds. Campbell detailed many stages of the Hero's Journey, but also summarized the outline into three basic stages: Separation, Trial, and Return that all heroes, regardless of gender, age, culture, or religion, must overcome to achieve the goal. Alice in Wonderland, written by Lewis Carroll, provides a good example of the Hero's Journey. This story describes the adventures of Alice, a young English girl, in Wonderland. While she lacks some of the stages Campbell identified, she still possesses many necessary for a Hero to be considered a Hero. The first phase, Separation, usually begins with the Hero's introduction to the public in the Ordinary World. . The hero's journey begins from a starting point, home, a place to which he may eventually return. The main purpose of introducing the Hero to the Ordinary World is to create a vivid contrast with the strange new world he is about to enter. Alice thus begins her search sitting next to her sister on the shore of a lake. The moment she gets tired of looking at the book that has no pictures, and therefore makes her sleepy, is the sign that something is about to happen. The Call to Adventure is an inc...... middle of paper ......and at the end of the story, in which she herself dreams of the adventures Alice has just experienced. The adult Alice will have children and, perhaps, will entertain them with the story of Wonderland. Indeed, the dream acquires a certain reality when it is spread, like a story, to many others. Therefore, Alice in Wonderland is a good example of a hero's journey. This story allows us to see how Alice overcomes the three main stages, and most of the stages identified by Campbell in her journey-transformation from an unruly child to a wise young adult. Throughout the story, Alice overcomes the nonsense of the young and the old before truly understanding what adulthood means. During her adventures in Wonderland, she encounters numerous new situations and encounters several archetypes necessary to be considered a Hero..