"The Secret Garden"

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This paper examines the main characters of Frances Hodgson Burnett's play, "The Secret Garden", Mary and Colin. The paper describes both characters as victims of their forlorn childhood. The paper explores their growing relationship and illustrates how they manage to help each other achieve self-awareness.

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"Writing in the Washington Times about a musical production of the play created from The Secret Garden, Jayne M. Blanchard (2002. P. DO2) noted that the children, Mary and Colin, "are spiritually and physically revived, actually given a reason to soldier on, when they coax back to life a long-neglected private garden." Blanchard found the production overly gloomy and filled with "adult angst." But then again, she thought the death in childbirth of Colin's mother was too Victorian. Unfortunately, while the setting of the book may have been Victorian, The Secret Garden was written thirty years after that era had ended. While Mary and Colin, two children as unlikable as they come, may have been a product of their age, the angst Blanchard mentions certainly sounds modern."

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