本文着重分析《彼得潘》主要人物以及他们所代表的含义,因为笔者相信巴里先生是通过这些人物的塑造来体现他一生追求童真对美好的无忧无虑的童年的回忆的主旨。并且,笔者也将通过人物的简要分析是读者们更深层次的理解故事的主旨。
description says Hook was a cold-blooded and ruthless man. “In the midst of them, the blackest and largest in that dark setting, reclined James Hook, or as he wrote himself, Jas. Hook. In person he was cadaverous [dead looking] and blackavized
[dark faced], and his hair was dressed in long curls, which at a little distance looked like black candles, and gave a singularly threatening expression to his handsome countenance. His eyes were of the blue of the forget-me-not, and of a profound melancholy, save when he was plunging his hook into you, at which time two red spots appeared in them and lit them up horribly. In manner, something of the grand seigneur still clung to him, so that he even ripped you up with an air, and I have been told that he was a RACONTEUR [storyteller] of repute.”[12] To a certain degree, Hook represents the reality. He had a cruel reality of the soul, which against Peter Pan s pure world, so they kept fighting, because those two worlds were opposite.
Hook finally ended in the food of crocodile. “and he staggered about the deck striking up at them impotently, his mind was no longer with them; it was slouching in the playing fields of long ago, or being sent up [to the headmaster] for good, or watching the wall-game from a famous wall. And his shoes were right, and his waistcoat was right, and his tie was right, and his socks were right.”[13] Hook was an astray boy after he grew up and faces the crucial reality. He became ruthless, and wanted to destroy the sweet dreams of Peter. That shows once you grow up, entering the real world, which you thought was beautiful is not real, and it only exists in your mind. After exercising the crucial reality, the pure place in your mind is gone. Even though Peter Pan won the battle, the reality won t change.
To sum up, no matter the conflict between captain Hook or the other part of the story are telling how wonderful carefree life in the childhood as well as telling the conflict of reality and growth. We are unable to avoid this conflict. Only we remain the pure thought and fight with “Captain Hook”, can we find the innocent place in our minds.
2.4 Tinker bell—“I do believe in fairies. I do, I do.”[14]