Far away with no boundaries, you can find a magical place full of adventures. The second star to the right, and straight on till morning you will find, Neverland. From the never seas to the never land plains there is a marvelous quest that will whisk you away to find fairy’s, pirates and the tick tock crock. The most famous pirate of this place is Captain Hook. The archenemy of Peter Pan. His two principal fears are the sight of his own blood and the crocodile who purses him after previously eat his hand that was cut off by Pan. An iron hook replaced his hand and that is how he received his famous name. He was described having long dark curls resembling burnt candles.
Peter Pan was a play that was written by playwright J. M. Berrie a Scottish novelist. Pan was a free-spirted and mischievous young boy who could fly and never grows up. He spends his never-ending childhood having adventures on the mythical island called Neverland. Peter is the leader of the Lost Boys and has many fun stories with fairies, pirates, mermaids and Native Americans and on some occasions ordinary children from the world outside. The play premiered December 27th 1904 at the Duke of York’s Theatre in London.
The story line of Peter Pan is an orphan and lived in Neverland and would like to visit the mainland to listen to the adventure stories of Wendy Darling. She is a girl that lives in London that is a nurturing mother character that was hesitant at first to go to Neverland with Peter. She loves the adventures they encounter but later she chooses to go back to her parents and grow up.
When it comes to Captain James Hook there is more to this villain than his feathered hat and shiny metal hook. In the original drafts of the play, he wasn’t even in the story. It was stated that Peter Pan was even cited as the original villain. Regardless of how he came to be, in the original play he was not seen as the bumbling cartoon character that Disney lead him to be. However, he was more cut-throat and his battle with Pan and the Lost Boys were usually deadly. In Barriers novel “Hook” he was described as the only man whom Long John Sliver was afraid of.
Disney may portray Pan a mischievous boy who doesn’t want to grow up, but the true origin of the character lies in the author J.M. Berrie’s personal life. His obsession with eternal childhood stemmed from the trauma of losing his brother and two infant siblings at a young age. In 1867 he lost his brother David in an ice-skating accident they day before he would have turned 14. Death seemed to linger around his childhood and he himself never had children. He spent most of his time in the late 1890s to 1900s with Jack and George Davies who were four and five years at the time the author met them.
When it comes to Peter Pan and his existence in Neverland, him growing up can be very dangerous. His character was a jokester and more of a darkly supernatural entity that holds a special bitterness for ANYONE who shows signs of growing up. He was portrayed as selfish, forgetful and self-centered. When the Lost Boys began to show signs up maturity and growing up her would just kill them, it was against Peters rules to grow up.
The main message of Peter Pan is that children, while wonderful and fun, are also innocent and heartless. This is why it is ultimately better that children do grow up.