The story of Alice's Adventures in is a legendary story in the history of world
literature about the adventures of a little girl named Alice. The aim of this final
project is to analyze how defamiliarization techniques are used in blurring the
fantasy and reality in wonderland. The second aim in this final project is to describe
Lewis Carroll’s use of imagery and perception as a defamiliarization technique to
portray perceptual disorder in the character Alice in Alice’s Adventures in
Wonderland (1865). This final project uses a descriptive qualitative method as a
research method to find answers. The main data used comes from Lewis Carroll's
book Alice's Adventure in Wonderland and the second data involves book,
international journals, research articles, commentaries, websites discussing
defamiliarization technique theory by Viktor Skhlovsky. This final project finds out
that: first, Carroll's use of imagery and perception of defamiliarization technique in
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland '' helps the reader to blur the lines between
fantasy and reality, creating a sense of disorientation and confusion in the reader.
This final project further reveals that the novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
(1865) can be seen as a representation of perceptual disorder.
Key words: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), defamiliarization,
perceptual disorder, sensory deception, sensory distortion.