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161) There is something tragic about a boy fighting against his destiny to grow up and become an adult, a point not lost on Michael Jackson who named his home “Neverland” after the peter pan's fantasy world.... Explore Peter Hollindale's claim that peter pan “retains its magical elasticity and its ongoing modernity” (Reader 2, p.... Barrie's play entitled peter pan was first performed in the UK in 1904, it has exerted a fascination for children and adults alike....
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Essay
The presence of the wizarding world is full of Victorian English trappings, the nature of Diagon Alley a part of the historic Britain aesthetic and reminiscent of peter pan and Alice in Wonderland, despite the time period differences.... One of the ways in which Harry Potter frames its topic manner in a way that brings charm to the tragedies of his life is through engaging the British culture through combining elements of the past and the present to evoke nostalgia as a sentimental narrative....
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His visit to the Ritz Bar is not because of nostalgia, but regret.... A Formal Analysis of Scott Fitzgerald's Babylon Revisited Scott Fitzgerald's Babylon Revisited is a tragic story of a man's struggle to reclaim moral ascendancy.... Fitzgerald fills Charlie's life with sympathy, never drawing back from a truthful depiction of his protagonist's flaws and failures....
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Regardless of whether one is familiar with the longer work from which this poem is taken, Goldsmith's poem “The Village Schoolmaster” evokes the same sense of sad nostalgia for something lost forever within itself through Goldsmith's mastery of imagery, meter, rhyme, lexicon and implied meaning....
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There is no denying the fact that when it comes to the world of childhood; peter pan qualifies to be labelled as a marvellous piece of fiction.... peter pan in a way gives voice to the most cherished fantasies of childhood.... However, JM Barrie while drafting peter pan went a step further by contriving a fictional island that is replete with an assortment of denizens that though to an adult may appear to be fantastical and farfetched are sufficient enough to marvel the imagination of a child....
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This essay "The Use and Impacts of nostalgia in Media" analyses the use of nostalgia as a marketing strategy to create a sense of both originality and continuity, in the terms of products or services, which are greatly appreciated by the consumer.... nostalgia has been highly used as a strategic marketing tool in the advertisement, where it helps in reaching out to residents and new consumers who relate to successful past experiences with the product (Sprengler, 2009)....
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In the pieces, we see persons desperate to get some things going in their lives, or eager to be in love, to make a name for themselves, discover their true identities, make money, go to places, create new ties, and at the same time cherish old relationships and experiences (the feeling of nostalgia is therefore widely visualized in these films)....
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Movie Review
By definition, nostalgia refers to a wistful desire to go back in thought or fact to a former time in an individual's life, to one's family and friends, or to one's home or homeland (peter 85).... It was there with the Romantics and the Victorians, as well as the modernist artists and critics (peter 86).... This literature review "Performing Popular Culture" discusses popular culture that exhibits nostalgia through the music and fashion it offers today's world....
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Literature review