... 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- uncomfortable and alien (224). The familiar, now both familiar and unfamiliar, generates anxiety. Peter Pan, as a ghost whose first appearance is announced as "uncanny,"" is the sign of anxiety within the play. Beneath the familiarity of middle ... important information in a stage direction that an actor would have difficulty conveying in performance. The...

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