![]() ![]() However, Barrie portrays Peter in all his authentic humanity and that's what makes him so endearing because we truly see ourselves in Peter Pan. Readers are preconditioned to believe that childhood and children must always be portrayed as good and innocent. Peter's character is far from a “perfect child.” He is selfish, foolish, thoughtless and ignorant and this is where the real appeal of the book lies. Peter Pan is pure and delightful fantasy. Following the phenomenal success of the play, Barrie transformed it into a novel in 1911 entitled Peter and Wendy. Consequently, he appeared in a few other stories and plays and finally in 1904 made his debut in a full length play, Peter Pan or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up. Peter Pan was first introduced as a character in one of Barrie's stories, The Little White Bird in 1901. The Llewellyn-Davies boys, five in number and related to the famous Du Maurier family, featured in many of Barrie's stories and plays and some of these works were written specifically for them. He discovered the main inspiration for his creative genius in his friendship (and later guardianship) with the children of Arthur and Sylvia Llewellyn-Davies. Sir James Mathew Barrie was a Scottish playwright and novelist whose works were received with great critical and commercial success in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. ![]() Peter Pan by JM Barrie is the story of a boy who remains a boy while the world around him changes. His name has become a metaphor for one who will never grow old. ![]()
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