ENG110Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Cunt, Externality, Unreliable Narrator
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In this story, the governess is the narrator. As this is a ghost story, we can examine the narrative from two perspectives. One version assumes that all the ghosts the governess claims to see are real (appartitionist reading), while another version assumes that the ghosts are a figment of the. Governess" imagination and are instead depicted as symbolism for something deeper (non apparitionist reading) We are under the assumption that the governess is reliable as a narrator and really saw the ghosts. James (the author) saw his story to be like this (in which the ghosts are real) Ghosts don"t exists, and the governess is an unreliable narrator. Edward wilson the ambiguity of henry james 1934. Wilson was an essayist who wrote about henry james" book, the turn of the screw. Neurotic case of sex repression his description of the governess and wilson believed that the ghosts in the story that the governess sees are hallucinatory.
