OK, hear me out, please!
Indeed, Alice is sort of a 'stranger in a strange land,' if you will. She struggles to make sense of her absurd encounters with the denizens of Wonderland and the looking glass country, while her own body literally unravels. In her first adventure, Alice changes size and shape more rapidly than she can keep track of. (My favorite part is when her neck grows like a giraffe's and she's accused of being a serpent [original sin, anyone?]). As Alice attempts to control her own body, she loses control of the world around her.
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| Steampunk Alice, though, is another story. (Picture taken from Rebelakemi, on devientart) |
The pivotal cyborg moment, though, comes with the realization that these changes are literally a product of her own design and creation, as she is the creator of her own fantasy. The cyborg as envisioned by Donna Haraway is equally a product of her own potential, who is limited not by her own abilities, but by the limitations and pressures put on by a society that cannot accept the individuality (read:deviance) of the cyborg's powers.
