Narcissism In The Peter

With Wendy being the dynamic antagonist of this play it was destin for her to change in some way on the playwright. From the beginning when she mentions thinking about Peter for eight minutes a day to when she realizes that she not only leaves eight minutes to think about him, but she lets him affect her life; even though they have not seen each other in years. This implication takes place not only in the play but in the real world as well. I do not agree to holding onto things that are not tangible. Holding on to a feeling you had when one was younger does not help a person as an adult. It will start to affect the things you do or the things you should be doing. It will affect the people around you, just like Wendy’s situation, it will cause conflict between the ones that you are close to. No one around you wants to see their loved one or best friend clinging on to a feeling they should have no problem letting go of. The disadvantage of holding on to old feelings results in an unhappy person, in someone who cannot leave the mindset they are in. It will slow a person down in succeeding in life, creates speed bumps in life, and keep them from their

When a person becomes experienced in life, they sometimes reflect upon their childhood. Frequently, when individuals are older, they have a better understanding of events that occurred. Even as some become adults, they will not appreciate a new understanding of a particular situation that happened in their youth. For others, they will come to a realization and be happy with the new awareness they acquired. One such character is Peter, the protagonist, in Ernest Buckler’s short story “Penny in the Dust.” Peter discovers the penny he lost in his father’s pocket, at the funeral and comes to the self-realization his father cared for him deeply.

J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan tells the story of “the boy who never grew up.” Barrie paints Peter as an extraordinary character living in a mystical world called Neverland, flying through the air, and fighting villainous pirates. He is also the boy who takes a young girl named Wendy from England back to Neverland with him. The interaction and interdependence of Barrie’s two characters, Peter and Wendy, symbolize and spread cultural gender stereotypes by mirroring the stereotypes embodied by the adult characters in the story—Mr. and Mrs. Darling—and by reflecting the ideas of gender roles of the time and foreshadowing the children’s understanding of reality and expectations, as well as their eventual maturation.

When people concur with and appreciate the quotes from Peter Pan, like “don’t grow up, it’s a trap”, it is an indication that they’ve already experienced countless changes in life (“Peter Pan Quotes”). The majority of the children wants to grow up because they witness adults enjoying their privileges, so they also want to act according to their own desires. However, all the children have to go through an inevitable period of emotional and physical maturity before reaching adulthood. “The Pomegranate” intensively depicts a maturing teenage daughter and the complicated relationship she now has with her mother. In the poem, Eavan Boland uses multiple literary techniques such as allusion, various syntaxes, and symbolism to underscore the complex

Peter is quiet and a shy boy. He has many duties chopping wood, fetching vegetables and potatoes from downstairs, and looking out for his cat. Anne thought he was boring and awkward. She later thought different and in up falling in love with him after she found him as a decent boy.

What does it mean to grow up? Does it mean washing your car, paying your bills, getting a job? Does it mean getting married, having kids, and sprouting gray hair? Is it necessary? Is everyone capable of it? Is it going to be hard and will it be worth the effort? All of these questions are probably what made Peter Pan decide to never leave Neverland. Growing up means a lot of different things to many different people. If we look at the words “growing up”, we simply think of the physical aspect of ageing, growing tall and wide. But for most people, growing up means something deeper involving a change in the approach that an individual has to life and the actions that are taken with it. In this essay, we will look at why people have

Narcissistic Personality Disorder is a mental disorder in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance and a deep need for admiration. Narcissistic Personality Disorder, also known as narcissism, dates back to ancient Greece. The term Narcissism comes from an old Greek myth of a young hunter named Narcissus. He was from the territory of Thespiae in Boeotia who was renowned for his beauty. He was the son of a river god named Cephissus and a nymph named Liriope. He was exceptionally proud, in that he disdained those who loved him. One day Narcissus was walking in the woods when Echo, an Oread, or mountain nymph, saw him, fell deeply in love, and followed him. Narcissus sensed he was being followed and shouted “Who’s there?”. Echo

Evolving towards adulthood is certainly difficult at times. It is remarkably complex due to the fact that adolescents are taught so many different lessons simultaneously, causing it to be too overwhelming when trying to make the right decisions. It makes this process even more complicated knowing there are many different views on what is right and wrong. Two great examples of this confusing, but worthy, journey reside in the lives of the protagonists of two classic novels. The first being Pip in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations, a novel in which a young boy describes his life as he's developing. And the second is Scout in Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, a novel that’s told from a young girl’s perspective as her father tries to prove a man innocent after being unjustly accused of rape. Both authors do a splendid job showing the process of the characters’ maturity from when they were children, to when they are adults. The two characters face a few similar situations, while at the same time learning a great deal throughout the novels. They do this until they finally reach the final stage of maturity.

The intensity in our story develops when our narrator discovers she really doesn’t love Peter. It’s when he asks her if she fancy’s the waiter (151), when she understands, at that moment she does not love him. Here is when she falls out of love in Sarajevo. It is because our narrator has a certain abusive struggle from Peter, that she seems to change her mind about him in such an instance. But through out the story she doesn’t seem to mind the way he mentally abuses her, how he’s always putting her down, and she doesn’t seem to understand that he still thinks of his wife but is practically with her for the fact she’s a good “LAY”. Her constant thought of Mrs. Piper, Peter’s wife, although she never physically appears in the story, she seems to always be present in her and his mind, making it hard for her to be fully with her lover (Peter) and in this way further extend her fantasious love relationship. She seems to be in denial about what truly is going on, and how she wants to make this work, when in deed she’s only in it for the grade, but she doesn’t want to

Ray Bradbury also uses Peter and Wendy’s obsession with their home, especially their nursery, to show what can happen if people spoil their kids along with no discipline. “… tie my own shoes, brush my own teeth, comb my hair, and give myself a bath?” This is Peter complaining about having to do things on his own that is house usually does for him. Peter saying these things is a perfect example of how spoiled these children are. “They screamed and pranced and threw things. They yelled and sobbed and swore and jumped at the furniture.” Peter and Wendy are doing these things when the parents shut down the kid’s main obsession, the nursery. Them acting like this, and showing no respect for their other things, along with Peter not being able to do anything on his own perfectly portrays how spoiling kids is bad thing to do. When parents spoil their kids, they grow up to be mean and have no respect for anyone or anything.

“There’s no such thing as aging, but maturing and knowledge. It’s beautiful, I call that beauty.”- Celine Dion. Lizabeth, the protagonist, experiences a change in her life through emotional hardships as she grows up and starts to understand more about life. Children are innocent, they don’t realize how mean and disrespectful they are at times. Maturation plays a big role while growing up and changes many things. Maturity is a life-long process of learning and experiencing new things, but also brings responsibility and discipline. In “Marigolds” by Euginia W. Collier the experiences of the narrator support the theme that maturity changes the way one perceives life.

This is concept of not wanting to grow up is proved throughout the play multiple times. For instance, he talks with Wendy explaining that he ran away from home saying, “I want always to be a little boy and to have fun” (Barrie 15). At the end of the play Peter is terrified to even pretend to be the boy’s father. He says, “It is only pretend, isn’t is, that I am their father?” (Barrie 43). Then in the lines proceeding he still was questioning Wendy to make sure his role was just pretending because he does not want any characteristics or responsibilities a grown person has. Wendy, on-the-other hand, was not afraid to take on the motherly role of the children. She awakes in the house and the boys ask her to take on the mother role and she replies, “Very well then, I will do my best” (Barrie 32). The concepts of the play follow the relation that exists between children and adults where their worlds are exclusive mutually as they complement each other (Barrie and Alton 7). There exists a higher association between Wendy and adulthood which helps show her transformation.  This proves Barrie’s play was created to showcase the bond between children as well as adults. This transformation for Wendy is interesting because she took on a mother role in a child-fantasy land that is supposed to be free of responsibility.

The construct of narcissism finds its origins in ancient Greece and Ovid’s Metamorphoses, with the proud and vain figure of Narcissus, cursed by the goddess, Nemesis, to fall in love with his own reflection. However, conceptualizations of pathological narcissism did not became a part of psychological theory until the late nineteenth century with Freud’s eminent essay: On Narcissism (Ronningstam, 2005). As Freud theorized on narcissism and, ironically, experimented with cocaine, the formal diagnosis of addiction was precipitously incorporated into the medical literature in response to increasing uncontrolled narcotic use and growing public health concern (Markel, 2012). Perhaps predictably, theorizing on the possible association between narcissism and addiction, particularly in the psychoanalytic tradition, has been addressed by theorists since. The term narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) was first introduced by Heinz Kohut in 1968, and saw inclusion in formal diagnostic literature in 1980 as a part of the significant revisions to personality disorders in the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM; American Psychiatric Association, 1980).

What this magical place represents is a state of remaining youthful forever, and not letting society conform one’s beliefs. The concept of age is masked by Peter’s stubbornness to not conform to such. For example, Wendy wants to get married and have kids one day; Peter does not. Wendy wants this because she is taught from a young age that this is a common normality of life. Peter refusing to stay at the house with the other lost boys, in the end, showed that such normality does not have to be one’s choice.

Barrie expresses the core of his argument through the actions of the children and Peter himself. Throughout the play, the reader observes many instances of the children playing "grown-up." When Peter first brings Wendy to Never Land, we see Slightly, one of the Lost Boys, playing doctor (69-70). This shows a fundamental need to grow up and find your purpose or profession. In many of the different acts the reader also sees the children pretending to have a family. The best example of this is in pages 98-118. The Lost Boys and Wendy's creation of a family reflects not only the children's need for a family, but their need to grow up and create families of their own. In this scene, one of the Lost Boys, Michael, states his wish to grow up when he says "Wendy, I am too big for a cradle" (101). Even Peter, who claims he wants to "always be a little boy and to have fun" reveals that he once wanted to return to reality as well (113). On page 110, Peter says that after some time in