ENG110Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Stout, Neurosis
Document Summary
Eng110y5 lecture 20: the turn of the screw henry james (pt. 2) William reed introduction (p. 18) (cid:862)mu(cid:272)h of the (cid:272)(cid:396)iti(cid:272)al de(cid:271)ate ste(cid:373)s f(cid:396)o(cid:373) ho(cid:449) to u(cid:374)de(cid:396)sta(cid:374)d the (cid:373)ai(cid:374) (cid:374)arrator"s descriptio(cid:374) a(cid:374)d interpretation of the events at bly. It is worth noting that this character the unnamed governess is one of three actual narrators in this text. Impossible to demystify the governess do(cid:374)"t get (cid:373)u(cid:272)h o(cid:374) (cid:272)ha(cid:396)a(cid:272)te(cid:396) Either governess was wrong at first or struck a nerve: governess infers that mrs. grose accidentally talked about someone other than the master, creates sense of unease in governess and reader. Mrs. grose likely follows along out of class compulsion. Governess reflects on recalling events at bly (ch. 3: comments on difficulty of writing about events from the time to capture essence of time spent with children, admits she does(cid:374)"t (cid:396)e(cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:271)e(cid:396) details of lesso(cid:374)s (cid:449)ith the (cid:272)hild(cid:396)e(cid:374) makes us question her credibility.
