Turn Of The Screw
The Thesis Statement: While "The " initially appears to be a typical ghost story, progression of the novel exposes the narrator's ignorance and unfamiliarity of her position as the narrator moves towards a nervous breakdown. "The ", by Henry James, first appears to the reader as a ghost story. It is the tale of how a young lady accepts a job as a governess, and how she is to be in charge of a house resided by two children, Flora and Miles. The young lady (never given a proper name) instantly falls in love with the two children, and is quite content with her job. However, some strange and ominous things start to happen. First, Miles is withdrawn from school, and then the young lady begins ...
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rest of the novel is dedicated to showing the young lady's despair, how she convinces herself that the children are aware of the apparitions, and how they all together are forming a conspiracy against her. At the climax of the novel, Flora becomes deathly ill and is taken away by Mrs. Grose, and Miles dies due to the shock of "seeing" Peter's ghost. In actuality, however, none ever sees, or at least claims to see, these apparitions that the young lady is so uneasy about. The young lady is the narrator of the story, and her narration and viewpoint are both very questionable. It seems that what she sees and even what she thinks she sees are all incomplete, and filled in by her imagination and her paranoid and jumpy conclusions. When she begins spotting these "ghosts", she has no clue who they are. She first encounters the "apparition" of Peter Quint, and upon explanation she tells Mrs. Grose that he appeared "far from a gentleman." Mrs. Grose brings up Peter Quint, but says he always ...
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anxiety is Flora contracting a deadly illness and the untimely death of Miles. After the narrator verbally assaults Flora, calling her a liar ( 70) and accusing her off conspiring with Miss Jessel, Flora becomes deathly ill and the narrator pleads with Mrs. Grose to take Flora away, thus saving her from the evil that supposedly resides in Bly. The narrator also says that she will handle Miles, and spends time with him. At the finish of the novel, the narrator sees Peter Quint in a window, and attempts to force Miles to admit that he sees him too. But when poor Miles turns toward where Peter is, he drops dead from the fright caused by the narrator. Poor Miles heart caves in as he ...
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