Technically Sir Francis Drake is a pirate, he’s just OUR pirate so he’s not.
The book version of Captain James Hook is genius, i read the book again quite recently and I’d missed some of the implications, for a start Hook is just the version of Mr Darling that Mr Darling isn’t allowed to admit he wants to be. And also Hook grapples with expected social behaviour he’s been extremely well educated in to the point he repeats it out loud to himself......until he completely looses it and kills someone. It’s hilarious, the education to stop him acting crazy has just made him even more unhinged, He also makes a very specific reference to his high school education whilst dying as his final words. I think it’s supposed to be a metaphor for what the educational instruction kills off in order to make Mr Darling. Yes it kills off the bad, black hearted part with anger issues, but that’s also the adventurous, fun part who enjoyed dressing flamboyantly.
I have never read a proper Peter Pan! But that certainly explains why in the stage play one actor plays both parts. (Or should do.)
Am I to wonder about Wendy & Hook? Because now that seems weird. But I've also never understood where she fits in the story. She's the most stuck in between character.
I had many arguments with the education system myself. ;)
I think Wendy needs to be explained by looking at both her and Mrs Darling
"Until Wendy came her mother was the chief one. She was a lovely lady, with a romantic mind and such a sweet mocking mouth. Her romantic mind was like the tiny boxes, one within the other, that come from the puzzling East, however many you discover there is always one more; and her sweet mocking mouth had one kiss on it that Wendy could never get, though there it was, perfectly conspicuous in the right-hand corner.
The way Mr. Darling won her was this: the many gentlemen who had been boys when she was a girl discovered simultaneously that they loved her, and they all ran to her house to propose to her except Mr. Darling, who took a cab and nipped in first, and so he got her. He got all of her, except the innermost box and the kiss. He never knew about the box, and in time he gave up trying for the kiss. Wendy thought Napoleon could have got it, but I can picture him trying, and then going off in a passion, slamming the door."It's later on stated that Peter
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I always thought a woman's innermost box would be her most inner self. The one part she keeps and will not surrender? The Kiss puzzles me. It appears to be available to Wendy if she could figure it out? Or is it that her mother wont give it? Peter can get it. What do they mean "get it"? Steal it? Be given it? Is it a kiss of love? LIke unvarnished, innocent, pure love?
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The book version of Captain James Hook is genius, i read the book again quite recently and I’d missed some of the implications, for a start Hook is just the version of Mr Darling that Mr Darling isn’t allowed to admit he wants to be. And also Hook grapples with expected social behaviour he’s been extremely well educated in to the point he repeats it out loud to himself......until he completely looses it and kills someone. It’s hilarious, the education to stop him acting crazy has just made him even more unhinged, He also makes a very specific reference to his high school education whilst dying as his final words. I think it’s supposed to be a metaphor for what the educational instruction kills off in order to make Mr Darling. Yes it kills off the bad, black hearted part with anger issues, but that’s also the adventurous, fun part who enjoyed dressing flamboyantly.
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I have never read a proper Peter Pan! But that certainly explains why in the stage play one actor plays both parts. (Or should do.)
Am I to wonder about Wendy & Hook? Because now that seems weird. But I've also never understood where she fits in the story. She's the most stuck in between character.
I had many arguments with the education system myself. ;)
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"Until Wendy came her mother was the chief one. She was a lovely lady, with a romantic mind and such a sweet mocking mouth. Her romantic mind was like the tiny boxes, one within the other, that come from the puzzling East, however many you discover there is always one more; and her sweet mocking mouth had one kiss on it that Wendy could never get, though there it was, perfectly conspicuous in the right-hand corner.
The way Mr. Darling won her was this: the many gentlemen who had been boys when she was a girl discovered simultaneously that they loved her, and they all ran to her house to propose to her except Mr. Darling, who took a cab and nipped in first, and so he got her. He got all of her, except the innermost box and the kiss. He never knew about the box, and in time he gave up trying for the kiss. Wendy thought Napoleon could have got it, but I can picture him trying, and then going off in a passion, slamming the door."It's later on stated that Peter ( ... )
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The Kiss puzzles me. It appears to be available to Wendy if she could figure it out? Or is it that her mother wont give it? Peter can get it. What do they mean "get it"? Steal it? Be given it? Is it a kiss of love? LIke unvarnished, innocent, pure love?
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