... means that both appear far from human. They are giving grotesque animal like qualities. "Jo and his order" (BH 258) are in may wqys similar to the characters portrayed in A Tale of Two Cities. With the likes of La Vengeance, Jo becomes the "Tough Subject". In fact "few people are known in Tom All Alone's by any Christian sign" (BH 358 ... not that he is ungrateful for the help that is offered him, but his trust begins to falter as a result of living in constant fear. This particularly poignant in his cautionary behaviour in regards to the help offered by Doctor Woodcourt, from whom he "...

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J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan (1904) circulates in the popular imagination as a happy tale for children that, through the adventures of Peter and the other children in Never Land, celebrates playfulness. As Mark Twain commented, "It is my belief that Peter Pan is a great ... , celebrated, and reviled, his self-staging did not lead "either his friends or strangers to regard him as obviously, even probably, queer- (2). With the case of Wilde serving as the cautionary note, a reading of Captain Hook as "queer- is problematic. Certainly, that he is the only adult in Never Land, engaged in "play- with t...

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