ENG110Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ghostwriter, Sexual Repression, Myocardial Infarction
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Read turn of the screw differently: the ambiguity of henry james . For wilson, the governess was unreliable, and ghosts are not real. First argument: very strange for james to write a straightforward ghost story; james writer of unusual neurotic stories. Second argument: governess is an odd narrator, has way of attributing sinister meanings to ordinary situations/circumstances (i. e. the boy being expelled from school, and ms. jessel"s death) Third argument: children and everyone else denying seeing ghosts. Fourth argument: mentions that there are a lot of freudian images hidden within story; could have come from governess mind. Two different accounts of meeting with ms. jessel by the governess: embellishing details for manipulating ms. grose. Governess invents story as result of sexual repression. When governess sees quint: she wanders along ground having fantasies about master of house. And sees somebody; could be creating people to match her imagination.
