The Turn Of The Screw

Question 0

Quotes Governess: Maternal

Answer 0

'to watch, teach, "form" little Flora'
I should serve as an expiatory victim
I was there to protect and defend the little creatures
I faced what i had to face
I walked in a world of their invention
poor protectress

Question 1

What are some key contextual points about Henry James?

Answer 1

• alice, his tounger sister had mental health problems and often contemplated suicide
• he was never forced upon a particular religion or set of beliefs
• some believe he was a homosexual however homosexuality had a two year prison sentence
• he suffered from professional pain especially with his play ‘Guy Domville’
• distressed by the death of his close friend Constance Fenimore Woolson

Question 2

Quotes Governess: Mad

Answer 2

I wished to mix a witches broth
For if he were innocent what then n earth was I?
Why did they never resent my inexorable, my perpetual society?
How can I retrace to day the strange steps of my obession?
I always broke down in the monstrous utterance of names
I felt my situation horribly crumble

Question 3

Quotes Governess: Arrogant

Answer 3

I fancied myself in short a remarkable young woman
I was strangely at the helm!
I know everything
I succeed where many another girl might have failed
My superiority, my accomplishments and my function
The chain of my logic was ever too strong for her
He seems to like us young and pretty!

Question 4

Quotes Governess: Repressed

Answer 4

It would be as charming as a charming story suddenly to meet someone
He never took his eyes from me
I threw myself upon him
the tremendous interest I take in you

Question 5

Quotes Mrs Grose: Maternal

Answer 5

the sweetest of human charities

an awestricken tenderness

Question 6

Quotes Mrs Grose: Aware of her class

Answer 6

Such things are not for me Miss
the good creature
she was close behind me sticking to me

Question 7

Quotes Mrs Grose: Other

Answer 7

the fault’s mine

how she had been beating around the bush

Question 8

Quotes Flora

Answer 8

golden curls
wretched child
she's not a child she's an old old woman
it has made her, every inch of her, quite old
her stabbing little words
wonderful little face

Question 9

Quotes Miles

Answer 9

his indescribable little air of knowing nothing in the world but love
little fairy prince
friendly old hand
little firm hand
as some wistful patient in a children’s hospital
YOU know what a boy wants!
an intellectual equal
the imagination of all evil had been opened up to him
small helpless creature

Question 10

Quotes Children

Answer 10

my little charges
false little lovely eyes
the little wretches

Question 11

Quotes Quint

Answer 11

his wearing no hat
a living detestable dangerous presence
an actor
he has red hair, very red
some enemy, some adventurer, some criminal
he knew me aswell as I knew him

Question 12

Quotes Miss Jessel

Answer 12

dark as midnight in her black dress

haggard beauty

Question 13

Quotes Imagery

Answer 13

all the music of summer mystery of nature
romance of the nursery poetry of the schoolroom
lives in a setting of beauty and misery

Question 14

Quotes Gothic

Answer 14

empty with a great emptiness
the apparition had reached the landing half way up
cold faint twilight

Question 15

Quotes End of TOTS

Answer 15

Peter Quint you devil!
his little heart, dispossessed, had stopped
the white face of damnation
the drop of my victory and all the return of my battle
i kissed his forehead; it was drenched.
for if he were innocent what then on earth was I?
i know everything

Question 16

Quotes start of novella

Answer 16

Nobody but me, till now, has ever heard. Its quite too horrible.
Its beyond everything.
for dreadful dreadfullness!
For general uncanny ugliness and horror and pain
He got up and, as he had done the night before, went to the fire, gave a stir to a log with his foot, then stood a moment with his back to us.
What’s your title? I haven’t one.

Question 17

Goddards views

Answer 17

The governess is insane
It is the gov that initiates the appearances of the ghosts, mrs grose denies seeing them at end of novella
There is mention of the govs unstable background
The governess has repressed her love for the master and what results is due to her thwarted maternal affection and repression

Question 18

Krooks views

Answer 18

Nivella shiws the co-presence of good and evil

Both the children and the governess are guilty and innocent

Question 19

Wilsons views

Answer 19

The governess is disturbed of a sexual nature
The ghosts are hallucinations
Her repression is seen in her too intimate relationship with miles
Notes freudian symbols such as the tower

Question 20

Cargill

Answer 20

James is writing in disguised form about Alice his mentally ill sister

Question 21

Heilmans views

Answer 21

There ARE ghosts which the gov can see
The ghosts are a symbol of evil
The governess tries to ward of this evil and the children are victims of the evil
Mrs grose symbolizes the common-place mortal and cannot see the evil despite her good intentions
The story is about the struggle of evil to possess the human soul
Bly is the decay of eden