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02/23/2022
What conception of evil does The Turn of the Screw present to the reader?
How do we understand the problem of evil in the story if the governess is reliable and the ghosts are real? (Be sure to anchor your discussion in a specific passage or two-to-three narrative details.)
We can interpret the governess and narrator of The Turn of the Screw as both heroine and villain of the tale. If we take the ghosts to be real and the governess sane, then the governess seems to be a successful heroine who protects her charges at all costs and rids Miles of his demon, thus ending the demon’s evil work. If we take the ghosts to be imaginary and the governess increasingly insane, then the governess seems to be the true villain of the story, concocting imaginary ghosts and terrifying one of her students into a fever and the other into death. With deliberate ambiguity, James allows for and encourages both interpretations of the governess. He has constructed a two-sided character who will be of one nature for one group of readers and of another nature for a second group of readers. These two groups of readers are established in the prologue, when Douglas introduces the governess and singles out the anonymous narrator by telling him “you will easily judge” her character. In this way, James alerts his readers that they will have to judge the nature of the governess for themselves.
How do we understand the problem of evil in the story if the governess isn’t reliable and the ghosts are a figment of her imagination? (Be sure to anchor your discussion in a specific passage or two to three narrative details.)
By titling his work The Turn of the Screw, James suggests that the phrase “the turn of the screw” is a fitting representation of the tale. The phrase works as a metaphor that compares a tale’s effect on its recipients to a screw boring into a hole. With each turn of the screw, the story’s point is driven home, and its recipients are pierced further and on a deeper level. James turns the screw several times to amplify his novella’s ability to penetrate. He preambles the tale with an intriguing but ambiguous prologue that foreshadows “delicious” dread. James turns the screw when Douglas does, with the introduction of a story involving not one but two children falling prey to supernatural events. The screw turns again when we understand that the children of the governess’s tale are not merely victims but participants in the realm of ghosts and may even be plotting deceits and evil deeds themselves. With the suggestion that the governess is insane and that she, not her imaginary ghost world, is the villain, the plot thickens even more.
In this paragraph, bring together your preceding discussions and answer the overarching question. What is the relation among the two ideas about evil you developed in your first two paragraphs? Don’t just assert, explain. More importantly, don’t just summarize what you’ve already said, synthesize your answers from the three preceding paragraphs by putting them into conversation with one another. What’s further revealed about the idea of evil in the work by juxtaposing your previous findings? Develop a nuanced claim that answers the overarching question. Add a final twist to your discussion by considering why James would present this idea about evil in a text with unlikely elements.
At its core, The Turn of the Screw is fundamentally a story about the struggle between good and evil. “Good” and “evil” are eventually discarded by the end of this book; the growing ambiguity of all the characters makes it impossible to continue to define any of them as such. The Turn of the Screw explores and complicates the relationship between youth and innocence. Youth and innocence are difficult to pin down in the book, the children seem precocious and (in the governess’s words) wicked, but at the same time they are presented as innocent and honest victims of a difficult situation. The ghosts are real and evil; the governess is heroic and good; Miles’ death and Flora’s illness are proof of the ghosts’ malignant effect and no responsibility of the governess, who did everything possible to save the children from perdition. Ghosts are just figments of our imaginations. There is no science or scientific evidence behind ghosts. If there were, such evidence would have been produced for scientific examination long before now and cannot be scientifically verified. Ghost are caused by the need for the human mind to fill the gaps in knowledge with “something,” and when nothing substantial can be found, insubstantial things are fabricated up to fill the blank spaces. Many people have frightening personal experiences that to them are real, but to others they can be seen as thoughts of the imagination or illusions in response to intense fear. The ghosts are sort of real but not really that awful; the governess isn’t totally crazy but sometimes intolerable; the children’s fate is at least partially her responsibility. Henry James was known to have had an interest in the inner lives of children, as both intelligent and mature members of the world, and as innocent victims of that same world; we see how sharply Henry James has drawn the children as innocent victims of adult concerns. At the same time, though, the children’s victimhood their difficult pasts with Miss Jessel and Peter Quint, their abandonment by almost all adults in their lives grants them a kind of seriousness and maturity not typically associated with innocently youthful children. This is a ghost story in which the fantasy of one level of meaning ironically reveals the moral and psychological reality of another level of meaning. The symbolic significance of the ghosts should be sought in the governess’s reaction to them, as it is ironically qualified by the logic of the narrative itself. Neither hallucinations nor representatives of a Manichean dualism or a Puritan asceticism, the ghosts symbolize the origins of human fear in the adult’s sense of sexual guilt a sense which is inevitably passed on to the child. Thus, the governess is neither mad nor abnormal, but quite tragically typical, in her inability to accept the genuine innocence of the children. The loss of innocence, James felt, could be understood only as a failure in the individual’s personal life failures which, like original sin, are self-perpetuating as they are passed from generation to generation.
3 paragraphs answering the questions on the story “The Turn Screw”
Overview
The Three-Paragraph Writing Exercise asks you to respond to an interpretive question on the idea of ethics in Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw. The assignment has a unique structure—it’s an exercise, not a traditional essay. Each of your first two paragraphs will require you to respond to more specific questions logically entailed by the broader one; you will synthesize and build on your findings in your final paragraph. Pay careful attention to the instructions for how to structure this assignment!
Learning Objectives
In this writing assignment, you will be able to
· Analyze James’s The Turn of the Screw for the thinking they mobilize about ethics
· Analyze the thematization of virtue or evil in James’s The Turn of the Screw, respectively, in relation to their supernatural and anti-mimetic elements
· Compose effective literary analyses of James’s The Turn of the Screw; to do this, you will be able to
· Select textual or narrative details that help extend your analysis
· Demonstrate that you can effectively situate textual and/or narrative details in your writing
· Develop close readings of textual or narrative details in order to elaborate or further flesh out your analysis
· Provide topic sentences that conceptually frame the subsequent discussion and, if it isn’t self-evident, make explicit the relation between the overarching interpretive question and the content of the paragraph
· Integrate your paragraphs using transitions and stitching between them so that the exercise feels like a single extended discussion
General Instructions
Format: Times New Roman, 12 pt. font, double spaced, default margins
Heading: Use the overarching question that you choose to respond to as your heading (see below for your options)
Length: three paragraphs; each paragraph should be at minimum 250-350 words
Citations: Use MLA in-text citations for textual and narrative evidence; you do not have to include bibliographic information if you are using the assigned version posted in Canvas.
Specific Instructions
Interpretive question options and structure instructions
Please Note:
· You should not include an introductory paragraph.
· Each of your first two paragraphs should include either a sustained close reading of a single passage (i.e. detailed analysis of the language of that passage) or an analysis that braids together two-to-three narrative or textual details.
Option #1
Overarching Question
What conception of evil does The Turn of the Screw present to the reader?
Paragraph One:
How do we understand the problem of evil in the story if the governess is reliable and the ghosts are real? (Be sure to anchor your discussion in a specific passage or two-to-three narrative details.)
Paragraph Two:
How do we understand the problem of evil in the story if the governess isn’t reliable and the ghosts are a figment of her imagination? (Be sure to anchor your discussion in a specific passage or two to three narrative details.)
Paragraph Three:
In this paragraph, bring together your preceding discussions and answer the overarching question. What is the relation among the two ideas about evil you developed in your first two paragraphs? Don’t just assert, explain. More importantly, don’t just summarize what you’ve already said, synthesize your answers from the three preceding paragraphs by putting them into conversation with one another. What’s further revealed about the idea of evil in the work by juxtaposing your previous findings? Develop a nuanced claim that answers the overarching question. Add a final twist to your discussion by considering why James would present this idea about evil in a text with unlikely elements.
Kobe Thomas-Joshua
ENGL 2331.701 (13669)
02/23/2022
What conception of evil does The Turn of the Screw present to the reader?
How do we understand the problem of evil in the story if the governess is reliable and the
ghosts are real? (Be sure to anchor your discussion in a specific passage or two-to-three
narrative details)
The governess and the narrator of the turn of the screw can be interpreted as being both villain and
heroine in the tale. The act of expressing the ghost as real and the governess as sane makes the
governess be a heroine who succeeds in protecting her charges and eliminates the demon from
Miles and hence, finishes the evil work of the demon. However, taking the governess to be saner
and the ghosts to be imaginary, the governess becomes a real villain in the story. Therefore, it
creates unreal ghosts and makes one of her students to be sacred and develops fear while another
student also dies. While deliberately incorporating ambiguity, James accepts and motivates all of
Governess’s interpretations. He has incorporated a dual character. The dual character will be single
for one group and single nature for the second group. Both groups are implemented in the prologue
when Douglas introduces the governess and tells him that he would judge easily her character.
Hence, James makes the readers understand that they would have to determine the governess’s
nature by themselves.
How do we understand the problem of evil in the story if the governess isn’t reliable and the
ghosts are a figment of her imagination? (Be sure to anchor your discussion in a specific
passage or two to three narrative details.)
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You don’t develop an interpretation of the story here. What idea of evil is expressed if the ghosts are real? What kind of evil do the ghosts symbolize?
By changing his artistic work to the turn of the screw, James notes that the words, “the turn of the
screw” blends in the tale’s representation. It is a metaphor that provides a comparison of the effects
of the tale to its recipient to a screw being bored into a hole. Every turn of the screw the recipients
are pierced deeper. The screws are turned several times by James to modify his Novella’s ability
to enter. He interprets the tales with an interesting but difficult prologue that predicts the delicious
dread. The screw is turned by James when Douglas does the same. The story introduces two
children that become prey to supernatural events. The screw turns further and we begin to
understand that governess’s children’s stories are not only the victims but participants in the ghost’s
realm and may even be plotting evil deeds by themselves. With claims that the governess is insane
and that she is a villain and not her imaginary world, the plot becomes even more interesting.
In this paragraph, bring together your preceding discussions and answer the overarching
question. What is the relation between the two ideas about the evil you developed in your
first two paragraphs? Don’t just assert, explain. More importantly, don’t just summarize
what you’ve already said, synthesize your answers from the three preceding paragraphs by
putting them into conversation with one another. What’s further revealed about the idea of
evil in the work by juxtaposing your previous findings? Develop a nuanced claim that
answers the overarching question. Add a final twist to your discussion by considering why
James would present this idea about evil in a text with unlikely elements.
Towards the end, the turn of events is an important story that highlights the struggle between good
and evil. The two concepts are removed at the end of the book. However, all the characters also
become vague, and hence, it becomes difficult to judge them. The screw turns analyze and makes
the relationship between the innocence and youths to become difficult. The youths and innocence
are difficult to analyze and hence, the children seem to be excellent (according to the words of the
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How does this answer the question that you’ve posed as your heading?
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I’m not sure what you mean here…
governess) and wicked. However, at the same time, they are depicted, to be honest, and innocent
victims of a complicated situation. The ghosts are both real and are bad. On the other hand, the
governess is portrayed as being good and heroic. Flora’s illness and Miles’s death prove the ghost’s
evil effect and lack of responsibility for the governess who died all he could to save the children
from the disaster. Ghosts are remnants of our thoughts. There is no concrete evidence of the
existence of ghosts. If there were substantial evidence, it would have been produced for analysis
and hence, theories about ghosts are unreal and not proven scientifically. They come as a result of
human brains and their quest to fill gaps with unproven knowledge or insight. However, when no
information is available, they often fill their minds with all the information they can get. The
majority of the people have terrifying experiences that might be true according to them. However,
scholars and scientists, are always seen as being illusions or imaginations in response to fear.
Ghosts are not real but are awful. The government cannot be crazy but cannot tolerate such cases.
However, part of the children’s fate is her responsibility. Henry James always showed an interest
in the children’s private lives and both mature and intelligent members of the universe and innocent
people in the universe. Henry James was sharply drawn to the children as victims of adult affairs.
On the other hand, the children demonstrate their difficult lives in the past with Miss Peter quint
and Jessel and how they were abandoned by almost all the people in their lives. However, it granted
them maturity and seriousness associated with the innocence of young children. The ghost story
demonstrates fantasy as a story but also highlights the psychological and moral reality of life. The
ghosts are significant and should be analyzed according to the governess’s reaction to them
because it creates irony by the logic of the narrative. However, neither the representatives nor the
hallucinations of a puritan asceticism or Manichean dualism, the ghosts are a symbol of the origins
of fear in human beings in the sense of adults of sexual guilt, a sense which cannot be avoided but
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Another good point
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I agree with all of this, but it isn’t relevant for an analysis of the story.
passed to a child. Therefore, the governess is not mad or abnormal but is not able to accept the
innocence of the children. The loss of innocence that James felt could be understood as a failure
of a person’s personal life that may include the origin of sin. They are self-made and passed from
one generation to the next.
James, Henry. The Turn of the Screw. 1898. Link to Project Gutenberg. Produced by Judith Boss
and David Widger. Accessed 23 February 2022.
Kobe Thomas-Joshua
ENGL 2331.701 (13669)
02/23/2022
What conception of evil does The Turn of the Screw present to the reader?
How do we understand the problem of evil in the story if the governess is reliable and the ghosts are real? (Be sure to anchor your discussion in a specific passage or two-to-three narrative details)
The governess and the narrator of the turn of the screw can be interpreted as being both villain and heroine in the tale. The act of expressing the ghost as real and the governess as sane makes the governess be a heroine who succeeds in protecting her charges and eliminates the demon from Miles and hence, finishes the evil work of the demon. However, taking the governess to be saner and the ghosts to be imaginary, the governess becomes a real villain in the story. Therefore, it creates unreal ghosts and makes one of her students to be sacred and develops fear while another student also dies. While deliberately incorporating ambiguity, James accepts and motivates all of Governess’s interpretations. He has incorporated a dual character. The dual character will be single for one group and single nature for the second group. Both groups are implemented in the prologue when Douglas introduces the governess and tells him that he would judge easily her character. Hence, James makes the readers understand that they would have to determine the governess’s nature by themselves.
How do we understand the problem of evil in the story if the governess isn’t reliable and the ghosts are a figment of her imagination? (Be sure to anchor your discussion in a specific passage or two to three narrative details.)
By changing his artistic work to the turn of the screw, James notes that the words, “the turn of the screw” blends in the tale’s representation. It is a metaphor that provides a comparison of the effects of the tale to its recipient to a screw being bored into a hole. Every turn of the screw the recipients are pierced deeper. The screws are turned several times by James to modify his Novella’s ability to enter. He interprets the tales with an interesting but difficult prologue that predicts the delicious dread. The screw is turned by James when Douglas does the same. The story introduces two children that become prey to supernatural events. The screw turns further and we begin to understand that governess’s children’s stories are not only the victims but participants in the ghost’s realm and may even be plotting evil deeds by themselves. With claims that the governess is insane and that she is a villain and not her imaginary world, the plot becomes even more interesting.
In this paragraph, bring together your preceding discussions and answer the overarching question. What is the relation between the two ideas about the evil you developed in your first two paragraphs? Don’t just assert, explain. More importantly, don’t just summarize what you’ve already said, synthesize your answers from the three preceding paragraphs by putting them into conversation with one another. What’s further revealed about the idea of evil in the work by juxtaposing your previous findings? Develop a nuanced claim that answers the overarching question. Add a final twist to your discussion by considering why James would present this idea about evil in a text with unlikely elements.
Towards the end, the turn of events is an important story that highlights the struggle between good and evil. The two concepts are removed at the end of the book. However, all the characters also become vague, and hence, it becomes difficult to judge them. The screw turns analyze and makes the relationship between the innocence and youths to become difficult. The youths and innocence are difficult to analyze and hence, the children seem to be excellent (according to the words of the governess) and wicked. However, at the same time, they are depicted, to be honest, and innocent victims of a complicated situation. The ghosts are both real and are bad. On the other hand, the governess is portrayed as being good and heroic. Flora’s illness and Miles’s death prove the ghost’s evil effect and lack of responsibility for the governess who died all he could to save the children from the disaster. Ghosts are remnants of our thoughts. There is no concrete evidence of the existence of ghosts. If there were substantial evidence, it would have been produced for analysis and hence, theories about ghosts are unreal and not proven scientifically. They come as a result of human brains and their quest to fill gaps with unproven knowledge or insight. However, when no information is available, they often fill their minds with all the information they can get. The majority of the people have terrifying experiences that might be true according to them. However, scholars and scientists, are always seen as being illusions or imaginations in response to fear. Ghosts are not real but are awful. The government cannot be crazy but cannot tolerate such cases. However, part of the children’s fate is her responsibility. Henry James always showed an interest in the children’s private lives and both mature and intelligent members of the universe and innocent people in the universe. Henry James was sharply drawn to the children as victims of adult affairs. On the other hand, the children demonstrate their difficult lives in the past with Miss Peter quint and Jessel and how they were abandoned by almost all the people in their lives. However, it granted them maturity and seriousness associated with the innocence of young children. The ghost story demonstrates fantasy as a story but also highlights the psychological and moral reality of life. The ghosts are significant and should be analyzed according to the governess’s reaction to them because it creates irony by the logic of the narrative. However, neither the representatives nor the hallucinations of a puritan asceticism or Manichean dualism, the ghosts are a symbol of the origins of fear in human beings in the sense of adults of sexual guilt, a sense which cannot be avoided but passed to a child. Therefore, the governess is not mad or abnormal but is not able to accept the innocence of the children. The loss of innocence that James felt could be understood as a failure of a person’s personal life that may include the origin of sin. They are self-made and passed from one generation to the next.
James, Henry. The Turn of the Screw. 1898. Link to Project Gutenberg. Produced by Judith Boss and David Widger. Accessed 23 February 2022.
