Dawson's Creek Character Analysis

Dawson’s Creek is an American television series that first began in 1998, created by Kevin Williamson who loosely based the show off of different aspect of his own life. The show follows Dawson, the main character, who is an aspiring film maker, his close friends Joey, Pacey and Jen, as well as the additional friends that come and go along the way. It depicts the four friends, living in a small coastal town, as they help each other cope with the struggles of both adolescence and growing up. The group endures a series of struggles that comes with life, as they mature and develop. They undergo the changes that accompany the growing hormones of puberty, as well as the confusion of feelings that come with these changes: they no longer see each other as just merely friends, but finally as members of the opposite sex. It show the friends as they adjust to their teenage years and life in high school. It continues to show how they further develop, grow up and move on to college; the beginning of the rest of their lives. No longer is their most critical decision what to do after school; now they must learn the responsibility of deciding what to do with their future, which will ultimately affect the course the rest of their lives take. Thus, Dawson's Creek is …show more content…
The audience is presented with an average guy whose best female friend is a “tomboy” and best male friend is considered the “clown” and the new girl next door, as well as a group of other friends that come and go along the way; each having diverse personalities so that each individual has someone to relate to. It is a show that brings individuals, of many different personality types and in various stages of life, together. A show, such as Dawson’s Creek demonstrates to the youth that the struggles they are going through are not out of the ordinary; that each struggle they endure is part of the process of growing up and finding yourself- whoever that might