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essay , need help!!!
hi,i need some help for an essay i have to do...Good and Evil in "The turn of the screw"..and i have no idea ...actually i was suppose to read the book , but i didn't...so please, if someone has any idea on that question..i'll appreciate.thx!
Posted By guigui at Sun 23 Mar 2008, 8:40 PM in The Turn of the Screw || 0 Replies
Help Desperately Needed! Please!
I start school in two days and at the end of my school year last year, I was given a reading assignment to complete. It's on The Turn of the Screw. I have lost my book, yet I still have the assignment that needs to be completed with me. KEEP IN MIND, that this has to be a typed, in 12 point font, and it has to be 2 pages long. I know it seems like a lot but I would HIGHLY appreciate it if you could help. I really need these points (50 points) to start my school year off. I am not intelligent in the field of reading, so I was wondering if someone could help. Help is GREATLY appreciated. I'm desperate. Ok, there are 4 options that I can pick from, and I will state each option below. You choose which one to do, but just state before your answer which number you will be doing. PLEASE NOTE: The chapters stated below are from the complete text book found at http://www.online-literature.com/henry_james/turn_screw/ (1) In chapter 21, the governess delivers a surprisingly nasty accusation toward Flora: "She resents, for all the world like some high little personage, the imputation, on her truthfulness and, as it were, her respectability.... Ah, she's 'respectable,' the chit!" This sudden revelation of class resentment on the governess's part seems at odds with her other attitudes throughout the text. How does class function in this story? How does it reveal or conceal motives? Think of how different the book would be without it. (2) In chapter 22, the governess and Miles are described as being like a couple on their "wedding journey." How are we to understand this intrusion of a romantic setting into the relationship of a governess to her 10-yr-old charge? Are there other scenes where a similar suggestion might be found? How does romance work throughout the book, from Douglas onward, to direct or misdirect our view? Why is this ghost story so infected by ghostly loves? (3) Don't write on this one unless you agree that the children are not actually "evil." They are, in fact to all appearances sweet, kind, intelligent, courteous, generous kids. Let's just say they are real kids. And yet we find the governess repeatedly referring to them as evil, as horrors, although she at first thought them to be perfectly innocent. How do these terms function in the book? That is, what is served by seeing the children as innocent or evil? Be sure to choose several specific scenes and look carefully at the way the governess's use of these categories shapes her perceptions, understandings, motivations, and place in the world. What, by the way, makes the governess "unfit" for church? (4) In chapter 6, the governess says, "I know, I know, I know! My exaltation grew." The governess seems obsessed with knowing, and yet what she knows remains very obscure. How does this desire to "know" work in the story? Does this desire to know help her to know more, or less? How do questions of what others know - the Master, Miles, Flora, Mrs. Gross play into the governess's interest in knowing? Note: My teacher is not interested in your trying to tell him what anyone knows or doesn't, but only how "knowledge" functions as a sort of coin of character in the book. Once again I will say that if you help me, I will GREATLY appreciate it. I am in desperate need. 50 points for my school is a lot of points and especially to start the year off with. I really am desperate. Thanks for your time!
Posted By Doesitall at Sat 1 Sep 2007, 1:13 PM in The Turn of the Screw || 2 Replies
Essay - help please!!
My essay topic; 'THe Reader who wishes to support the Freudian interpretations of TTOTS&see the governess as a sex-starved and hysterical spinster with a peverted imagination must ignore many important signals in the text.' Discuss, indicating whether you agree, partly agree or disagree. I want to agree, can any one help me with ideas or info? THanks heaps
Posted By groovygrandmas at Fri 18 May 2007, 1:17 AM in The Turn of the Screw || 0 Replies
How Does Governess Fit Gothic Female
how does the governess fit the gothic female please help
Posted By baaini at Fri 2 Mar 2007, 10:03 AM in The Turn of the Screw || 0 Replies
Lost: Television series and T of the S correlations
I noticed on the television series "Lost" in the bunker the occupant (Desmond) has the orientation training film hidden behind the book, "Turn of the Screw". I think perhaps this book contains clues to some of the mysteries that the island so often presents (such as group and individual ) Any "Lost" followers out there with some theories?
Posted By zeitgeist at Sat 11 Nov 2006, 6:42 PM in The Turn of the Screw || 2 Replies
self-deception in turn of the screw
I'm currently doing a study of the governesses self deception in turn of the screw, so far i've touched on the fact that she is in love with her employer and thinks being ignored is his way of showing his trust in her etc, also that she believes she knows what is best for the children although clearly does not, but really i'm totally stuck, anyone got any ideas about self deception? please......i'm totally stressing!
Posted By javafork at Wed 16 Nov 2005, 8:49 PM in The Turn of the Screw || 1 Reply
Help with a few questions
1. Who is the intial narrator 2. Who is the Narrator of the Primary story? 3. What disturbs the governess about Flora's reaction to the ghostly presence. 4. What is the one stipulation the bachelor makes of anyone who accepts the position to care/teach the children?
Posted By 10thAPLitSux at Tue 8 Nov 2005, 7:13 PM in The Turn of the Screw || 2 Replies
Essay: Help urgently needed!!!!
I have to do an essay on the Turn of the Screw!! The title is: Chapters 19 and 20 of The Turn of the Screw prove that the “Ghosts at Bly are products of the Governess’s imagination” Discuss this statement with relation to the novel. If anyone has any ideas on what I should do. Any help is appreciated. Thx in advance Lottie xxxxxxxxxxx
Posted By OscarsHutches at Mon 7 Nov 2005, 5:26 PM in The Turn of the Screw || 4 Replies
the turn of the screw by henry james SPOILERS
my god henry james. i thought i'd learnt my lesson after washington square but im a sucker for punishment and yesterday i read the turn of the screw soley because it was a ghost story and my gothic lit teacher recommended it. well as you might imagine it was a tough slog (james is no easy read i tell you) and more than once i thought to myself WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON HERE!?!?! and WHY SHOULD I CARE!?!? SPOILER BEGINS from what i gather there is a governess who is crazy and sees the ghosts of a former manservant and a maid who had an affair and died. how they died and why is beyond my understanding but dead they are and they appear to her. the two children in her charge are able to see them (or so she says) and conspire with them to get rid of her (i think anyway). then at the end the girl gets scared and refuses to see the mad governess (who is the narrator of the story too) and in the climactic scene the governess and the boy sit down to have dinner and she sees the ghost of the man and the boy falls down dead. SPOILER END now, just for my own edification, if anyone out there has read this yawnfest and/or studied it, then can you enlighten me? cheers :banana:
Posted By mister_noel_y2k at Sun 10 Jul 2005, 3:28 AM in The Turn of the Screw || 15 Replies
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in all honesty, I disliked the turn of the screw, not b/c I am ignorant and cannot appreate it, but simply b/c I do not like the lost and confused feeling it leaves me. when I read, watch a movie, etc, I like to understand what is going on and form clear opinions on the subject. with this book, I constantly find myself second guessing my conclusiuons and furiously rewritting my research paper over and again. I believe that the governess is somewhat crazy, but I cannot find enough hard evidence in the tale to support said theory. therefore, I am sticking with the belief that she is truly seeing ghosts and if anyone else shares this belief, help would be so wonderful b/c I am feeling somewhat lost. thnx
Posted By jenni at Tue 24 May 2005, 6:07 PM in The Turn of the Screw || 1 Reply