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The Lost Boys and Girls : Stereotypical Gender Roles in J.M. Barrie’s and Disney’s Peter Pan.

This essay discusses how female and male characters are represented in the novel Peter & Wendy by J.M Barrie from 1911 and the Disney version Peter Pan from 1953. Jane Sunderland’s models on social gender are used as a substructure to help clarify how the characters are portrayed as individuals, in relation to other characters and through their own actions and speech acts. The essay shows that there is a major difference in how male characters are portrayed compared to the female characters and that every character of the story lives up to what seems to be socially constructed gender roles.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-34719
Date January 2014
CreatorsSödergren, Sandra
PublisherLinnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR)
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text
Formatapplication/pdf
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
RelationLÄRARUTBILDNINGEN,, Sandra Södergren

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