Turn of The Screw AS most important quotes
- Created by: holly
- Created on: 16-04-12 11:28
James ‘a poor little pot-oiling story of nothing at all’
Jessel
· ‘vile predecessor’
· ‘indescribable grand melancholy of indifference and detachment’
Gothic
· ‘heroism’
· ‘whites of his beautiful eyes and the uncovering of his clear teeth
· ‘room full of… last century’s fiction’
· ‘flora at peace’
· ‘where is Miss Jessel?’ – NOT GOTHIC
· Stoll = Long literary tradition of genuine ghosts that are visible to some and not others eg: ghost of banquo is invisible to all but Macbeth (not direct quote)
· Governess kills spirit of children so she can run household like Macbeth
· Ambition over rides logic just like governess’ ‘obsession’ to be a ‘heroine’
Repression
· ‘loneliness’
· ‘small smothered life’
· ‘first time.. I had known... freedom’
· ‘an unknown man is a permitted object of fear’
· ‘my untraveled eyes’
· ‘Serious duties and little company’
· ‘most agreeable woman I’ve ever known in her position’
· no its not repression because heilman says ‘we are [openly] told she is in love with him’
· Osborn Andreas ‘governess’s emotional cannibalism’
Phallic imagery
· ‘very erect’
· ‘hard’
· ‘a little hole that had evidently suggested to her the idea of sticking in another fragment’
· ‘short thick oars’
Unreliable narrator
· ‘Strangely at the helm’
· ‘I scarce know how to put my story into words’
· ‘the more I go over it the more I see in it’
· ‘brush of the sponge’
· ‘our not seeing is the strongest of proofs’
· ‘ghosts are not real ghosts.. merely the governess’s hallucinations’ WILSON
· ‘first appearance of quint interrupts her romantic daydreams’ WILSON
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Audience
· ‘large clean suacepan’
· ‘receptacle…
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