1. Peter Pan
Beneath the familiarity of middle-class life, in the opening and closing scenes, and the culture of children's play evident in the adventures in Never Land is the anxiety aroused by the shifts in masculine identity in relation to modern life, including the new technologies of the workplace and the demise of Empire. ... The "modern,"" as the experience of recent times, involves the memory of the past and anticipates a future. Thus, the experience of the "modern- is change. ... One of the implications of this understanding of "modern- is that as capitalism emerges as the economic ethos of W...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate