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

Dennis Potters Blue Remembered HillsA.E. Housemans poem looks back at childishness as a land of lost substance meaning that when you are a child you are innocent and youdont have a care in the world. Also he says that childhood is ahappy highway where I went / and cannot come again meaning that theyare the best old age of your life but you can never go back there.Dennis Potter took the poem and turned it in to a play about a separateof 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 summer of 1943 and there were 5 boys and 2girls who were played by adults. The first person we meet is Williewho is playing at worldness a spitfire. Next we meet peter who is a bit ofa bully. There is Audrey who is a bit of an ugly tag-along and thenthere is Angela who is a pretty girl who orders Audrey about. There isalso Raymond who has a stutter and John he is a bit of a hero and isnumber 2 be there is Donald he is a bit of a pyromaniac.In the play the behaviour is realistic because that is what they wouldreally do if they were in the forest of dean. They do things that precisely 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 afight in scene 11. It all started in scene 10 Raymond was standing 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 looseand then they induce in to a fight and John won and peter was runningaway Run, babby, run and peter ends up in the old barn lecture toDonald. In this part of the play Dennis Potter is trying to make themlook as if they are not so innocent. They are being deliberately cruel when they are trying to knock a squirrel out of a tree and theyeventually knock it out and kill it. An incident of when they areunintentionally being cruel is when they trap Donald in the barn whenDonald is starting a fire in amongst the hay.