DRAM 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: J. M. Barrie
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Week 3: i won"t grow up" investigating innocence. World is a dark place, at some point children will encounter the darkness. Have a cultural impulse to separate childhood from adulthood explorations of the borderline between separate" worlds of childhood and adulthood bring a degree of social anxiety: i. e discussions of sex ed curriculums. Questioning childhood innocence and how this concept might influence potential tya artists and audiences. Peter pan look at the original text (jm barrie: peter is crueler and more insensitive, conversations about kisses, mother and fathers to be weird, captures victorian attitudes towards children. Note the differences between our conception of childhood and the time period in which the play was written: was developed due to imaginary games barrie would play with his sons. Therefore peter pan is on the borderline between the childhood and adult world: *look at wendy and peters differing views of parenthood.
