The Turn Of The Screw By Henry James

Title: The Turn of the Screw The Turn of the Screw is an idiom used many times in literature and even in everyday language. I was unfamiliar with this idiom and I believed that the author was foreshadowing how someone is going to lose their screw meaning they are going to go crazy. I was partially right since one perception of story is that someone does go crazy, but the actual meaning of the idiom is to make something bad even worse. The author uses this phrase in his story as well.
The first time the author uses this phrase in his writing was in the preface, which was written in Douglass’s point of view. Henry James writes, “But it’s not the first occurrence of its charming kind that I know to have involved a child. If the child gives the effect another turn of the screw, what do you say to two children….?” When Douglas said this statement another individual was telling the group about a ghost who would appear in from of a little little boy. Then Douglas tells tem he know about another story in which two child are affected by the turning of the screw.
No attempt, none the less, could well require more tact than just this attempt to supply, one’s self, all the nature.” Through this statement the governess says that she needs to protect Miles and show the rest of the people she is heroic and ready, especially since everyone else knows of previous events. She says that this will