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[phineasjones]

"Henry James's Turn of the Screw can be an incredibly frustrating and difficult story. It hints at much, but rarely states anything directly. The sheer number of possible interpretations of the events it describes can make it a difficult read, but the openness of the text to multiple interpretations is also, in some ways, the point of the novel. Henry James constructed his story in order to make allusions to sexual topics without stating anything explicitly. The very language of the story allows sexual implications to proliferate almost endlessly." (some summary/analysis page, i just closed it oops and am too lazy to go back and get the link.)

well, isn't that helpful.

pretty much it seems i was right... ghosts of child molesters. conflicted children. hysterical governess. creepiness.

Comments

[anabelwumpkins.livejournal.com]

OHmygoodness i've just now read the drama of your whole exciting amazing opportunity and decision. i wasn't feeling awfully cozy with my computer this weekend. but gracious! wow! i'm so proud of you for choosing it, dear friend. i hope the learning is going extremely well! please let me know if for some reason you need another voice or piano-hand to get an idea of what something sounds like... i finally have a day off at home! yippee! and yippee for you! you'll be great :)

::hugs::

Turn of the hwa?

[scottxwl.livejournal.com]

I vaguely remember writing a paper on this story in college where I argued that it wasn't, in fact, a ghost story. Even that part of the events is open to interpretation.

However I remember nothing of the story or the paper.

turning

[quercum.livejournal.com]

I've started to read the story and it has an intro which suggests that one interpretation is that it is all in the mind of the governess. She does seem a bit manic. And at first confuses the "ghost" Quint for the "patron" she was serving and seeking aprroval from. Also this was a story retold many years later and maybe somewhat in defense of the final incident...more to come after I read the whole thing.

[oatmilk.livejournal.com]

i really like that book. they've made a few movies from it too. one's this really lame assed thing that is set in the wrong time and is uh, lame. but the other one i've seen is uber creepy and bbcish >.> yes.