Blue Remembered Hills
Blue Remembered Hills – coursework essay.How Does Dennis Potter Represent Childhood In His Play – Blue Remembered Hills? The title of the play – Blue Remembered Hills comes from a line in A.E. Houseman’s poem that is quoted at the very end of the play. This poem is used because its ironic, it talks about childhood being “The Happy Highways” when most part of the play has been virtually the opposite. The play was about death, war and destruction. It was set during world war two and the opening line is a young boy imitating gunfire from an aeroplane which is the shot down and crashes. He (Willie) then say’s “Then be all dead. Dead, dead, burnt to nothing”. A lot of the play is also about hoe the children are in competition with each other – (Peter)- “Shut thee chops, Willie. I’m number two a’ter Wallace and don’t you forget it.” The poem gives a very nostalgic view, longing to be a child again – “This shows irony as it is spoken almost immediately after the death of a child (Donald burnt to death in the barn) which was partly the fault of the other children who would not let him escape from the barn as it burnt down. Donald’s childhood, unlike the poem, would not have been one which an adu
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Some common words found in the essay are:
John Peter, Donald Donald, Wallace Wilson, Interestingly Donald, Willie Im, Burn Burn, Teasing Audrey, Happy Highways, John Willie, Hello Peter, – john, donald –, peter –, willie –, play –, blue remembered hills, remembered hills, prisoner war, blue remembered, john –, – john –, beginning play –, donald duck, prisoner war camp, play – blue,
Approximate Word count = 1556
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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