Dennis Potters Blue Remembered Hills :: Dennis Potters Blue Remembered Hills Essays

Dennis mess arounds Blue Remembered HillsA.E. medical interns poem looks back at barbarianhood as a bolt down of lostcontent meaning that when you are a child you are innocent and youdont have a solicitude in the world. Also he says that childhood is ahappy r placee where I went / and cannot come again meaning that theyare the best geezerhood of your life but you can never go back there.Dennis putter took the poem and turned it in to a play about a groupof children who were on there school holidays in the forest of dean inGloucester. Potter is asking if childhood is such a land of lostcontent and is children so innocent.The poem was set in the spend of 1943 and there were 5 boys and 2girls who were played by adults. The first someone we forgather is Williewho is playing at cosmos a spitfire. Next we meet peter who is a while ofa bully. thither is Audrey who is a human action of an ugly tag-along and thenthere is Angela who is a pretty girl who orders Audrey about. The re isalso Raymond who has a stutter and John he is a bit of a hero and isnumber 2 last there is Donald he is a bit of a pyromaniac.In the play the behaviour is virtual(prenominal) because that is what they wouldreally do if they were in the forest of dean. They do things thatonly children do for example in scene 5 Donald, Angela and Audrey arefanaticising about being adults and are playing houses. Also theylaugh about knickers being made out of silk. John and peter have a meshing in scene 11. It all started in scene 10 Raymond was stand up onhis head and Audrey shouted that there was blood in his ear and Johnwas standing up for Raymond and Peter was trying to make Raymond utterand then they get in to a fight and John win and peter was runningaway Run, babby, run and peter ends up in the old barn talking toDonald. In this part of the play Dennis Potter is trying to make themlook as if they are not so innocent. They are being deliberatelycruel when they are trying to rap a squir rel out of a tree and theyeventually knock it out and kill it. An incident of when they areunintentionally being cruel is when they pin up Donald in the barn whenDonald is starting a fire in amongst the hay.