Review of Blue Remembered Hills
'Blue Remembered Hills' is a poem by AE Houseman that shows an
idealistic view of childhood as you see in the poem.
That is the land of lost content
I see it shining plain
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again
In this short piece AE Houseman gives the effect of a clean happy
time. Dennis Potter has a completely different view on childhood that
completely contrasts with AE Houseman's poem. Dennis potters play is a
reversal of AE Houseman's poem, including the attitudes of the
children. In this play the children think only for themselves. There
is extreme cruelty between the children. There is a constant power
struggle between the boys and the girls. This constant struggle for
power, admiration and for wanting to be respected leads to the
destruction of a member of the group of boys. The children constantly
pick on the weakest to make them look bigger.
AE Houseman shows an idealistic view of children and Potter wanted to
show what he thought kids were like. Potter thought that if he used
children the audience wouldn't see their true behaviour: the audience
would just see kids fooling around like kids do. Potter wanted the
kid's behaviour to really be analysed. By using adults to play out
children the audience would concentrate on what they are doing. Potter
also used adults to portray emotion better than children. In an
example Willie's behaviour is childish with him using his hands as
aeroplane wings and making sounds like an aeroplane. If you saw a
child do this then it would be normal, but seeing an adult makes you
watch the movement very closely and seeing the ...
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...pathy for Donald. Peter though can't handle the guilt so decides to
go for the easy option, denial. Soon everybody starts to deny the
situation of the barn blaze.
Peter: "No I wasn't, t was bloody mile away"
Audrey: "You was with me Peter"
Willie: "we was altogether"
John: "That's right, we didn't see nothing"
Raymond: "Poor old quack-quack"
The children act like adults do most of the time when they can't deal
with the pain of a situation; they deny that it ever happened.
Potter's view of children is that although children don't know the
world fully they still posses all the traits of an adult. Also he
wants to show that children are not angels their human beings, and
when you're not with them they get up to all sorts and last of all
Potter shows that there is always a heavy competition to the best.
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life around it, there is nothing you can do or say that will get them to change;
back and fourth between them and their friends or relatives, but now they could just
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when you need them. They are not there if you need some help, in any situations where you need to talk to, and even stay out of your life when they sense that you