The Turn Of The Screw Flashcards
(22 cards)
Quotes Governess: Maternal
'to watch, teach, "form" little Flora' I should serve as an expiatory victim I was there to protect and defend the little creatures I faced what i had to face I walked in a world of their invention poor protectress
What are some key contextual points about Henry James?
- alice, his tounger sister had mental health problems and often contemplated suicide
- he was never forced upon a particular religion or set of beliefs
- some believe he was a homosexual however homosexuality had a two year prison sentence
- he suffered from professional pain especially with his play ‘Guy Domville’
- distressed by the death of his close friend Constance Fenimore Woolson
Quotes Governess: Mad
I wished to mix a witches broth
For if he were innocent what then n earth was I?
Why did they never resent my inexorable, my perpetual society?
How can I retrace to day the strange steps of my obession?
I always broke down in the monstrous utterance of names
I felt my situation horribly crumble
Quotes Governess: Arrogant
I fancied myself in short a remarkable young woman
I was strangely at the helm!
I know everything
I succeed where many another girl might have failed
My superiority, my accomplishments and my function
The chain of my logic was ever too strong for her
He seems to like us young and pretty!
Quotes Governess: Repressed
It would be as charming as a charming story suddenly to meet someone
He never took his eyes from me
I threw myself upon him
the tremendous interest I take in you
Quotes Mrs Grose: Maternal
the sweetest of human charities
an awestricken tenderness
Quotes Mrs Grose: Aware of her class
Such things are not for me Miss
the good creature
she was close behind me sticking to me
Quotes Mrs Grose: Other
the fault’s mine
how she had been beating around the bush
Quotes Flora
golden curls wretched child she's not a child she's an old old woman it has made her, every inch of her, quite old her stabbing little words wonderful little face
Quotes Miles
his indescribable little air of knowing nothing in the world but love
little fairy prince
friendly old hand
little firm hand
as some wistful patient in a children’s hospital
YOU know what a boy wants!
an intellectual equal
the imagination of all evil had been opened up to him
small helpless creature
Quotes Children
my little charges
false little lovely eyes
the little wretches
Quotes Quint
his wearing no hat a living detestable dangerous presence an actor he has red hair, very red some enemy, some adventurer, some criminal he knew me aswell as I knew him
Quotes Miss Jessel
dark as midnight in her black dress
haggard beauty
Quotes Imagery
all the music of summer mystery of nature
romance of the nursery poetry of the schoolroom
lives in a setting of beauty and misery
Quotes Gothic
empty with a great emptiness
the apparition had reached the landing half way up
cold faint twilight
Quotes End of TOTS
Peter Quint you devil!
his little heart, dispossessed, had stopped
the white face of damnation
the drop of my victory and all the return of my battle
i kissed his forehead; it was drenched.
for if he were innocent what then on earth was I?
i know everything
Quotes start of novella
Nobody but me, till now, has ever heard. Its quite too horrible.
Its beyond everything.
for dreadful dreadfullness!
For general uncanny ugliness and horror and pain
He got up and, as he had done the night before, went to the fire, gave a stir to a log with his foot, then stood a moment with his back to us.
What’s your title? I haven’t one.
Goddards views
The governess is insane
It is the gov that initiates the appearances of the ghosts, mrs grose denies seeing them at end of novella
There is mention of the govs unstable background
The governess has repressed her love for the master and what results is due to her thwarted maternal affection and repression
Krooks views
Nivella shiws the co-presence of good and evil
Both the children and the governess are guilty and innocent
Wilsons views
The governess is disturbed of a sexual nature
The ghosts are hallucinations
Her repression is seen in her too intimate relationship with miles
Notes freudian symbols such as the tower
Cargill
James is writing in disguised form about Alice his mentally ill sister
Heilmans views
There ARE ghosts which the gov can see
The ghosts are a symbol of evil
The governess tries to ward of this evil and the children are victims of the evil
Mrs grose symbolizes the common-place mortal and cannot see the evil despite her good intentions
The story is about the struggle of evil to possess the human soul
Bly is the decay of eden
