Examples Of Motherhood In Peter Pan

The idea of motherhood is a major theme portrayed in the novel Peter Pan. Although the concept of having a mother is symbolized throughout Peter Pan, it is motherhood itself that prevents Peter Pan and others from maturing into responsible adults. Peter Pan wants a mother, but at the same time he does not trust mother figures because he believes that his birth mother betrayed him by closing the window of his home. When Peter Pan finally returned home the window appeared closed. He thought the window would be still open,like a mother waiting for her child with her arms wide open, a true sign that his mother was longing for his return home. However, Peter Pan found the window closed. He never thought that it may not have been his family still …show more content…
Barrie’s idealization of motherhood in the fact that Peter Pan wants a mother figure that can take care of him and to love him and the lost boys. Except for the shadow scene, he does not openly want, speek or except mothering. He comes into the nursery with Tinker Bell to find Wendy, who in his mind would make a perfect motherly figure for him and the lost boys. Peter convinces Wendy to come to Never Land so she can see a mermaid, but he really wants her to become a mother to him and the Lost Boys and to tell them stories that they have never been told before because they have never had anyone to do so. She is to tell them stories, like her own mother once said to her, because Peter and the Lost boys have never had someone to do that for them. Though Wendy admits she has no experience playing a mothering role, she imitates her own mother's behavior and manages to win the boys over with her kind and loving ways . Wendy is someone who already has the charasticts of a loving and motherly figure, as shown from her enthusiasm for the husband-and-wife games she plays with her brother John. Wendy also undertakes motherly activities, such as sewing on Peter’s shadow when it gets taken off, and is sweet, motherly towards Peter and her siblings. Her relationship to him is not like young friends or young lovers, but rather more like the love between a mother and child. Someone who wants to be there to help you and love you along the way when you need her she will be

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