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Mortality

Introduction

Peter pan is eternally young. He does not change and is timeless. He is always the same

age. He does not grow but on the contrary, he enjoys the wonder of being young fully. Though

he was born so long ago, he has by no means had a birthday. He says that ‘’If growing up means

it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I’ll never grow up, never grow up, never grow

up! Not me’’ (Barrie 67). He believes that ‘’All children, except one, grow up’’ (Barrie 37), and

that is Peter pan. He escaped from being a human being when he was one week old. The play

opens in the household of darling family.

The Darling family consists of five, Darling, her husband, and their three children. They

live in Bloomsbury, London. They are somewhat impoverished but they employ a house help,

Nana. As the parents prepare to leave for dinner, Nana is putting the youngest of the three

children to bed. The eldest child is called Wendy; the youngest one is called Michael, and the

other John. Peter pan visits the nursery of the darling family and entices Wendy, John and

Michael away to Neverland. They all forget home as they enter into a dreamlike existence. They

even forget who they were before they arrived at Neverland. Neverland is an imaginary place

that each individual child is lured to away from home.


Thesis

Everyone longs for immortality. No one wants to age or die. The problem that we fail to

see is that of changelessness. Peter pan is not about being eternally young but that lack of

purpose in being that. The problem comes up in being young forever. Though we desire not to

change, we also have an eternal yearning to become something new. This creates a conflict in

our desires. We desire the safety that is found only at home but we have a strong urge to run

away from home and never come back. Neverland is not a single idea. Peter pan is neither a boy

nor a girl but is somewhere between the two. The play itself is meant for both adults and

children. Peter pan is a story of a dead boy who did not die. For one to completely comprehend

Peter pan, we should open the window of imagination and be like him. The other aspect brought

out in the book is the issue of being heartless. Many children are innocent, carefree, self-centered

and heartless. Children portray these characters. In order for one to grow and embrace the

immortality that we desire, we should become better each day. We should learn, grow and

change. Each new day should be better than the previous.

Wendy

She is the central protagonist in the story. She is pretty and has soft features, blond hair

and twinkling eyes. She is proud of being a child and resents adulthood. She resents being an

adult through the example given by her father. The father is given to fits of rage. At an early age,

she begins to figure out how to avoid growing up. She gets this opportunity when peter pan

takes her to Neverland. He tells her to forget everything and follow him to a place where she will

never have to worry about grown up things again. This keeps Wendy wondering ‘’ Never is such

a very long time’’ (Barrie 62) In Neverland, one can remain young forever. The experiences at

Neverland only cause her to think more of being an adult. The lost boys who dwell in Neverland


and Peter want her to play the role of a mother to them. They want her to carry out domestic

tasks for them. She begins to accept virtues associated with adulthood. Finally, she accepts the

fact that she cannot continue postponing maturity and returns to London. She represents a young

mother figure. She finally captures the interest of Peter pan. Sex roles are clearly portrayed in

Peter pan. Peter lures Wendy to Neverland with the intension of making her a mother to himself

and the lost boys. She expects Wendy to tell them stories as her own mother tells to her. Peter

will not accept being the father unless if he is only pretending to be one.

Neverland

Peter pan, Tinkerbell, and the Lost Boys lived in a fictional world called Neverland. The

adventures occur at Neverland. A group of lost boys pursues various adventures. These involve

pirates and fairies. Neverland is the location for the underground home and Wendy’s house. Not

everyone in Neverland ceased to grow, its only Peter Pan who is used metaphorically for eternal

childhood did. Ideally, Neverland is imagined, it is found in the mind mostly of children. It is

mostly imagined as an island. Neverland varies from one child to another. For illustration, John

darlings’ Neverland is a lagoon with lots of flamingos flying over it. Michael darlings’ ‘’had a

flamingo with flamingos flying over it’’ (Barrie 107). Adventures in Neverland are not far

between which shows that it is a compact island. It portrays that in a child’s mind there are no

boundaries. Peter pan led the darlings’ siblings to Neverland flying ‘’second star to the right, and

straight on until morning’’ (Barrie 20). Peter created the directions to impress Wendy. The truth

is that they arrived at Neverland because it was looking for them. Passage of time in Neverland is

portrayed ambiguously. The presence of more suns and moons than those in our world makes

time impossible to track. Time becomes of little importance as when you arrive at Neverland.


Personality of Peter pan

Peter pan is an exaggerated boastful, careless, selfish boy. He boasts easily and tells of

how great he is but often the greatness is questionable. He congratulates himself for the success

of Wendy reattaching his shadow. He is fearless when it comes to dangerous situations, he has a

devil may care attitude. He is ignorant of the danger of death. He is ‘’blissfully unaware of the

tragedy of death’’ (Barrie 102). He thinks that ‘’to die will be a very big adventure’’. He often

flies through open windows at great heights, which also illustrates his attitude towards fear.

Psychologically, we can characterize him as having social and sexual problems. He is immature

and a narcissist. His attributes include irresponsibility, rebellion, dependency, manipulating

others and a crazy belief that he is above everything and everyone. He is an adult little boy who

still yearns for motherly love. He is in neither a relationship or seeking one.

Conclusion

One aspect illustrated in the case of peter pan is the rising cultural attention to the

difference between in adults and children. The story though a century old echoes these

differences. Peter returns to Wendy years later and she confirms to him that he is too childish. He

is also childishly self-absorbed to even recognize this. She tells him ‘’I am old Peter; I am ever

so much more than twenty. I grew up long ago’’. Peter decides to teach her to fly by sprinkling

of the fairy dust. Instead, she asks her not to. She says ‘’O Peter, do not waste the fairy dust on

me’’ (Barrie 75). This clearly brings out the great difference between children and children.

‘’There is a saying in the Neverland that, every time you breathe, a grown-up dies." (Barrie 27)


Work Cited

Barrie, Mathew. Peter Pan (100th Anniversary Edition) [Hardcover]. New York, U S: Henry

Holt and Co. 2003.

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