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Peter Pan
How is gender represented and what does this suggest?
In JM Barrie’s novel Peter Pan (1911), we can see numerously ideological representations of
gender
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In the characters of Wendy,
Mrs Darling, Tinkerbell and Tiger Lily, we can see how the female gender is represented in
diverse forms, particularly through Tinkerbell and Tiger Lily
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It is clear that Barrie has clearly defined gender roles against the ideology of late
Victorian and early Georgian society
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Wendy will eventually
become just like her ‘mother’ fulfilling the typical gender roles of female
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‘"I shall sew it on for you, my little man," she said, though
he was tall as herself, and she got out her housewife [sewing bag], and sewed the shadow on
to Peter's foot
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By calling Peter, her ‘little man’, Wendy gets into to the
gendered role of mother quickly
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‘”Wendy,” he said, “how we should all respect you
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”’, only allows Wendy to revel in this further for it is what her own mother does for her
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’” This
thus suggests that ‘mothers’ have a lot of responsibility in caring for their children and that
Peter may have brought Wendy to Neverland to do the chores that he does, as a boy, not want
to
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It should be noted that they do not talk in the novel at all and when Peter
meets Wendy he exclaims that ‘”Girls talk too much”’ because he has never been subjected
to females talking
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The role of Peter is itself a gender stereotype
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He is also like a father figure to the Lost Boys with Wendy as his
‘mother’
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As a boy, he is a representation of childish confidence as well
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