1. Peter Pan
... to happen, we expect, for a quiver has passed through the room, just sufficient to touch the night-lights- (97). As Freud suggests in his 1919 essay, the "uncanny- arouses an experience of "dread and horror,"" partially because the familiar (heimlich) evokes the unfamiliar (unheimlich), rendering the comfortable and "homey- ... the proscenium arch. It is a place of play within a play. The terms of Never Land are nostalgic and gendered. Never Land is a boy's world, "very compact, not large and sprawly with tedious distances between one adventure and another, but nicely crammed- (105). Act...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate