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Peter Pan is a myth of the 20th Century. I would have to mention him along with Conan and Tarzan. The fact that he is gone from me, may be because that the two Americans represent just reading for 'hard men', the Englishman child is and operates in a children's book.
This Peter Pan is even the oldest of this trio. As early as 1902 he saw the light of the world (in a book for adults!), Was adapted for the stage in 1904, and 1911, then appeared for the first time, the short novel I've read over the holidays. The first edition was called simply Peter and Wendy. Peter Pan has not lost its fascination to this day; Walt Disney fabricated a film about him. (Where Disney Peter Pan's clothes - a costume from dry leaves, actually only the leftover leaf skeletons - has transformed into a more subtle green hunter dress Disney Tinkerbell also is decently dressed, while Barrie clearly says that her clothing was quite clear and even. let see her embonpoint Even otherwise, Disney has adapted much of the view of the heal children world that adults have so much today -., and Barrie shared by no means). puerto rico
I suspect that Pan - at least in the novelization - the adults faszniert even more than the kids. Sure, the plot is suitable for children. There are no more bad guys killed than in an average Grimm fairytale. Even the language is - without being simplistic - simple and clear. But Barrie's big issue - the childhood and the adult dealing with it - is hardly interested in children, not even the children interested in the book itself. Peter Pan is the boy who refuses to grow up. On the island of Neverland who knows every child because every child at least temporarily living in this realm of fantasy, Peter Pan makes with lots of adventure. He even companions: the "Lost Boys" - Boys who have fallen to their nanny in the park out of the car and could not be found. (Girl, Peter Pan declares with the greatest self-evident, puerto rico are too smart to fall out of a stroller.) However, the "Lost Boys" grow and need to be replaced from time to time. Pan remains. He pays - according to our understanding - a high price for it: He forgets. He has forgotten puerto rico his mother, he will have forgotten at the end of the story that he defeated Captain Hook in a duel and has pushed into a crocodile. He will forget Wendy, who at Neverland (half in play, half seriously) his "mother" was, because now her daughter puerto rico has taken this position, puerto rico as later, the daughter of the daughter and their daughter will again occupy that position.
Barrie's big issue is the nostalgia - a yearning of adults according to the eternal child-being, which turns on the child, at least in the female adults in the longing. Men do not, and women probably only exceptionally - The 'real existing' eternal child but, Peter Pan, most adults puerto rico can then did not see. The grown-up Wendy at the end of the book is such an exception.
All in all a very interesting read. Barrie puerto rico can shine through humor again and again, a pleasant irony that shows that he does not take children and adults too seriously. These are quite realistic insights into the enormous egoism and megalomania, have the children, and the Barrie not beautified. But even adults, even in fairies act, basically all more or less selfish.
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