Editing Spirited Away (section)

==== Fantasy ====
The film has been compared to [[Lewis Carroll]]'s ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]'' and ''[[Through the Looking-Glass|Through the Looking Glass]]'', as the stories are set in [[fantasy world]]s, involve disturbances in logic and stability, and there are motifs such as food having metamorphic qualities; though other developments and themes are not shared.<ref>{{cite web|author=Sunny Bay|date=22 June 2016|title=Beyond Wonderland: 'Spirited Away' Explores The Significance of Dreams in the Real World|url=http://moviepilot.com/posts/3975727|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160814000655/http://moviepilot.com/posts/3975727|archive-date=14 August 2016|work=moviepilot.com}}</ref><ref name="Spark">{{cite web|date=2004|title=Influences on the Film {{!}} Spirited Away|url=http://www.sparknotes.com/film/spiritedaway/section5.rhtml|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160814185733/http://www.sparknotes.com/film/spiritedaway/section5.rhtml|archive-date=14 August 2016|work=SparkNotes}}</ref>{{rs?|sure=yes|date=February 2025}}<ref name="NYT review" />

Yubaba has many similarities to [[the Coachman]] from the 1940 film ''[[Pinocchio (1940 film)|Pinocchio]]'', in the sense that she mutates humans into pigs in a similar way that the boys of [[Pleasure Island (Pinocchio)|Pleasure Island]] were mutated into donkeys. Upon gaining employment at the bathhouse, Yubaba's seizure of Chihiro's [[true name]] symbolically kills the child,<ref name="satoshi3">Satoshi, Ando. 11 February 2009. "Regaining Continuity with the Past: Spirited Away and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." ''[[Bookbird]]'' 46(1):23–29. {{doi|10.1353/bkb.0.0016}}.</ref> who must then assume adulthood. She then undergoes a [[rite of passage]] according to the [[monomyth]] format; to recover continuity with her past, Chihiro must create a new identity.<ref name="satoshi3" />