ENG110Y5 Lecture 4: Turn of the Screw Notes
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Infatuated by 10 year old miles and cannot think ill of him: her relationship with miles becomes explicable when you see this, p. 205: miles starts acting out, and tells the governess to think of him as bad, p. 213 215: miles says my dear , tries to sound more grown up, wants to go back to school and be around people his own age, this makes more sense of miles" behaviour, governess first thinks of mrs. 20, and the manuscript is presented many years later: how could it be that 10 years before he met her, she went crazy on her first job and still managed to find other clients and have great references, the non apparitionist reading doesn"t make sense of the rest of the governess"s life and how she managed to stay in the business and write the manuscript, litterature fantastique, ambiguity is built into the narrative.
