The Turn of The Screw

In Henry James's novella, The Turn of the Screw, the governess observes and describes the housekeeper, Mrs. Grose, as “a stout simple plain clean wholesome woman” (13) within half an hour of meeting her. The governess's description of Mrs. Grose turns out to be true. Mrs. Grose's trusting character makes her simple, plain, and clean, while her dedication to the children makes her stout and wholesome. Mrs. Grose is clean, being pure and innocent as she is trustful of others.…...

In Turn of the Screw our main is Ms. Griffin who is a governess and is assigned to watch a boy and a girl. The girl’s name was Flora who was eight years old, and the boy Miles who was ten years old. The children’s family had all died and they were taken in by their uncle who didn’t want to take care of them. So the Governess, Ms. Griffin was assigned to take care the kids, in return she…...

Henry James’s “The Turn of the screw” narrates the story of a young woman who is working now as a governess. After their parents’ death, two orphans become the responsibility of their uncle. Therefore this one decided to hire somebody for the kids so they can receive education while he is not there. However, the incident encountered by the governess while she was dwelling in Bly have become divided into lots of questions accompanied with doubt, since it is a…...

In the novella The Turn of the Screw, destroying the youth as the scaring and scarring from the literal ghosts and figurative ghosts shaped and impacted the children in the novella The Turn of the Screw. The seemingly harmless ghosts add fear as they become a physical threat. This lead to the utter corruption of the children. Personally it was reading a good thriller/mystery novel that was my favorite but never would I find myself reading a book this scary.…...

In Henry James's Turn of the Screw, we are introduced to a vehicle of psychological instability in the form of a nameless governess. This governess is immediately flagged as unreliable upon accepting her position at Bly as a "higher call to duty." In conjunction with Harold C. Goddard's critical essay "A Pre-Freudian Reading of The Turn of the Screw," wherein he analyzes the governess as being in an "overwrought condition" (161), her mental state suggests that the life she desires…...

Wayne C. Booth tries to describe how criticism sometimes seems to embrace a clear notion of how different stories have a significant impact on individuals. In fact, he says that people sometimes try to imitate any character or behavior of the story, especially if the story asks to admire the behavior presented(Booth, 290). According to Wayne C. Booth, he figures out a strong connection between how an attitude, knowledge and the experience of a reader can affect their reader response.…...

For our A2 devised practical performance, we decided to portray our own Creative Adaptation of Henry James' 'The Turn of the Screw'. As a group we were eager to portray the gothic theme, due to its extreme scope for imagination. We knew that to do a Creative Adaptation, we needed a storyline which had particularly strong themes which were recognizable to an audience. Due to the eerie and ghostly themes within 'The Turn of the Screw' we decided it would…...

The Turn of the Screw is a story written in 1898 and from a governess' point of view. In the main story the governess thinks the two children she is caring for are under the evil influence of two ghosts, Miss Jessel and Peter Quint. What we would expect from an opening to a ghost story written in 1898 is to be launched straight into the plot. We would expect this because this grips the reader's attention and makes you…...

Compare the ways in which children are portrayed in Henry James's The Turn of the Screw and William Golding's Lord of the Flies. How convincing do you find each author's treatment of evil in relation to his characters? Everyone likes to think of childhood as a symbol of a time of innocence. People tend to look back on their childhood nostalgically, they remember it as carefree and often use the term 'youth is wasted on the young' these feelings have…...

Henry James' novella, "The Turn of the Screw" lends itself readily to psychoanalytical literary criticism. This type of literary criticism takes as a point of departure, the theories of the psychoanalytical tradition. As such, psychoanalytical literary theory approaches a literary work in many respects as though the text is to be interpreted the way a dream is interpreted by the method of psychoanalysis which means, most importantly, that a literary text is assumed to have both a manifest meaning and…...