Identity and Individuality of Derivative Fictions -- continued

However, in the original novel Peter and Wendy, the author had already presented an interwoven structure that transcends the dimensional discontinuity between the real world and the dreamworld, Neverland, which is said to be the region in the mind of children, in a way that goes further as a core theme of the work, in the description of Captain Hook’s origins.

Hook was not his true name. To reveal who he really was would even at this date set the country in a blaze; but as those who read between the lines must already have guessed, he had been at a famous public school…

According to the description of Peter and Wendy, the pirate captain Hook voluntarily changed his identity from the real world to the fictional existence, succeeding in leaping through an insurmountable dimensional fissure, transforming himself into a legendary villain. This is the most “fantastic” part of the novel, Peter and Wendy. In fact, the possibility of such a subtle connection or intercourse between the fictional world and the real world formed an important principle of Romantic philosophy. The construction of more comprehensive systemic ontology that encompasses both matter and spirit, reality and fictionality, and the aspiration for the acquisition of specific consciousness/existence mode in a transcendental continuum space that makes this understanding possible, was the driving force that supported the philosophy of Romanticism. There is an impulse of fierce rebellion against the restraint of what has been prescriptively called “reality” according to the postulates of scientific thought.