Blue Remebered Hills Donald in Scene 11

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Scene 11 is important for the audience as it shows the development of Peter’s character in Blue Remembered Hills

Scene 11 is important for showing the development of Peter’s character in Blue remembered Hills. The audience already has an idea of Peter’s character from the previous scenes where he is portrayed as a confident and tough person. The audience has seen him shown as a bully when he tries to spit on Willie and we can tell by the way everybody reacts towards him that everybody is scared of him.

However, for Peter, his character takes a dramatic turn in scene eleven, when his character gets into a fight with john and loses. He goes from his confident self to a very distraught child. You would be able to tell this from his body language as he would suddenly hunch up (trying to make himself less of a target), he would go quiet instead of his old self. He would no longer move around so much and prefer to just stand around alone.

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The fight would have affected Peter for a number of reasons. Firstly he had always been the second hardest around. This meant nobody dared challenged him, and if they did he usually fought and won (except Wallace Wilson). For him to have suddenly lost to someone else would be a new experience and bound to leave him questioning himself and his abilities. His pride would have taken quite a battering and he would have felt very sad by the way his ‘friends’ turned on him because he lost a fight.  For the audience, scene 11 is a chance for ...

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