phenomenon is considered by juxtaposing [dʒekstə’pəʊz]- зіставляти of the two literary texts – The Turn of the Screw‚ a novella by Henry James (publ. 1898) and John Harding’s novel Florence and Giles (publ. 2010)‚ a neo-Victorian reworking of Henry James’s classic. Throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries‚ Henry James’s highly ambiguous late-Victorian ghost story The Turn of the Screw (1898)‚ which captures the mysterious events at Bly involving two of literature’s most infamous child characters
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Angels and Monsters in Turn of the Screw Gilbert and Gubar’s metaphorical monster/angel dichotomy as mentioned in their publication The Madwoman in the Attic fits perfectly within the authors depiction of the angelic and monstrous Mrs. Grose‚ the Governess‚ and Flora. Dichotomy‚ meaning a contrast‚ a difference‚ a normal and a not normal‚ a yin and yang‚ a sweetheart and a bitch is demonstrated throughout the novella on many levels. These personality traits can be found within all of us as we had
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Major Works Data Sheet Advanced Placement Literature and Composition Title: Turn of the Screw Author: Henry James Date of Publication: 1898 Genre: Gothic Ghost story Biographical Information about the Author: Henry James was born in New York‚ then alternated between living in England and America‚ but most of his writing career took place in England‚ where he eventually settled and died. His brother was a famous psychologist and his sister a diarist. His education was odd: he mostly learned from
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Evil influences of Peter Quint and Miss Jessel affect the children at Bly as consequences of the governess’s obsession with the apparitions in Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw. Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw is one of most celebrated ghost stories of all time. The novella is set in a small town named “Bly” where the governess assumes the duties with her ward of two children: Miles and Flora (5). As the protagonist – the governess narrates the story in first-person; thus‚ the reliability
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Alex Downs Bowser English 10 1 Apr. 2013 The ghosts in The Turn of the Screw are real because of textual evidence‚ the children’s behavior‚ and the Governess’s ability to describe the ghosts in vivid detail. "The Strangeness of our Fate: The Governess and the Children." The Turn of the Screw: Bewildered Vision. Terry Heller. Boston: Twayne‚ 1989. 85103. Twayne’s Masterwork Studies 26. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 30 Mar. 2013. In his article‚ Terry Heller uses the children’s disobedience
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Loose Constructionist v. Strict Constructionist Interpretation of the Constitution The debate over how much power a government should employ over its citizens has been issue in the United States‚ since its first development of government. This clash of views essentially led to the formation of political parties‚ and was the first major political dispute in the United States. Federalist leader Alexander Hamilton who was pro strong central government‚ industrialization‚ businesses and banking‚ was
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United States‚ two political parties emerged disagreeing with each other of who should have the power and what kind of government the nation should be composed of. The Federalist party wanted a strong national government and was thought to have a loose interpretation of the Constitution through the Elastic Clause. Onthe other hand‚ the Jeffersonian Republican party maintained that the states should retain the power and thought that the Elastic clause allowed the national govt too much power. They
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April 15‚ 1843 Henry James was born in New York City into a wealthy family. James’s gothic novella‚ The Turn of the Screw has been criticized throughout the ages but no one is really sure what the story is really about. The book seems to be less influenced by James’s personal life and more by the Victorian time period. Three years before The Turn of the Screw was published‚ there was a huge scandal that went down with a rather famous writer named Oscar Wilde‚ who was well known for his work The
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starts his argument with the focus on the term “homelessness” with relation to the “treatment of property” in the text (Davidson‚ 455). A seemingly rootless life of Henry James is projected on the description of the governess in the The Turn of the Screw; that is‚ he intends to reflect his own experience of homelessness in the light of metaphorical aspect through the book. Then‚ he further discusses about how “homelessness” can also be interpreted in terms of cultural uncertainty in the late nineteenth-century
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Conflict over foreign and domestic policies between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson led to the development of two political parties. Although the Jeffersonian-Democratic were strict constructionist and the Federalists were loose constructionists‚ both failed to be consistent and chose whichever interpretation that better served their interests at the time. Jefferson originally began as a strict state’s rights advocate. He only accepted the Constitution with a guarantee of the Bill of Rights
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