Compare and contrast "Blue Remembered Hills" by Dennis Potter, "A clockwork orange" and "Warrior square."

    Warrior square is similar to Blue Remembered Hills because both plays have adults playing children, but warrior square only has a few child characters, but Blue Remembered Hills has an all child character list. “Blue Remembered Hills” is a black comedy play, but “Warrior Square” is a tragedy, so both plays are sad, and obviously tragic, but one has a comic twist to it. This is a good comparison of the plays because you could observe the ways that the children handle tragedy. For example, in “Blue Remembered Hills,” at the end, the children have to come to terms with killing Donald, but in “Warrior Square,” the children (Eva and Andre) have to come to terms with the deaths of family members through conflict. It could be considered an odd comparison as the plays are both set with about 50 years apart, but it shows how children in different eras, and circumstances, react to  the trauma they have been through.

    “A Clockwork Orange” is a play based on violence, rape, death, and crime in general. It is a play set in the near future, but written about the same time as “Blue Remembered Hills.” The play could probably be described as a tragedy as there is mostly violence in the plot. There are similarities with “Blue Remembered Hills” in this play as the main storylines involve violence and death. Both of these are visible in the Donald Duck story line in Blue Remembered Hills, he gets beaten by his mother, and then later, he is killed by his peers. Where as in “A Clockwork Orange” Alex becomes reformed, and instead of being killed by his piers, they only turn on him because of the way he treated them when he was more powerful, this could be seen as a parallel to the death of Donald, even though the circumstances are different. The two plays could be  compared in the fact that they are both about groups of young people doing what they usually do, but there is an age difference so the plot is different because of this, and the generation gap between the characters, there will obviously be differences in the behaviour of the characters.

        Overall these three plays all have the same common theme and message in them; they all show the effects of violence and death on different parts of society. “Blue Remembered Hills” shows the effects on young, working class, children in the war years, where as “A Clockwork Orange” shows the effects it would have in the future as this play is set in the future. The play “Warrior Square” is set in the present, so it shows how children, and the wife and sister-in-law (Reva) cope with the death of their family members whilst settling into another country after being driven out of their own.