Ttots Flashcards
Quotes showing sex repression
- castle of romance
- Quint figure, very erect, as it stuck me
- charming as a charming story
Quotes showing mental instability
- it produced in me
- made me drop to my knees beside the bed and seize once more the chance of possessing him
Quotes showing children are innocent
- greater sweetness of innocence
- glittered in the gloom
- headmaster an awful bore
Quotes showing children are evil
- she’s an old, old woman
- there aren’t many of your own sort, Miles
Quotes for Marxist reading
- girl out of a Hampshire vicarage
- Mrs Grose tells miles to ‘know his place’
Quotes showing feminist reading
- an unknown man in a lonely place is a permitted object of fear to a young woman privately bred
Quotes showing ghost story
- great drifting ship
- the rooks stopped cawing
Critics for a ghost story
Jones: ghosts all too real
Beilder: James wrote other stories, why just we read this one as an hallucination story?
James: a fairy tale pure and simple
Critics for sex repression
Wilson: a neurotic case of sex repression and that the ghosts are not real but hallucinations
Critics for mental instability
Wilson: never a reason to supposing that anybody but governess sees the ghost
Shepard: the governess kills miles through excitement, fright and despair
Critics that children are innocent/evil
Wilson: the children become hysterical but this is the Governesses doing
Critics for Marxist reading
Orwell: England is the most class-ridden country under the sun
Moon: James was showing the moral decline of the upper class
Critic for feminist reading
Klingenberg: triple frame narration ‘expels the female’
Critics for homosexual reading
Killoran: James has Miles go off for hours with Peter Quint
