Turn of The Screw AS most important quotes

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  • 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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Zai Has

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Hi, thanks for the quotations but I was wondering if you've got page references to the above quotes? Can you add those onto these quotes?

Thanks

holly

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sorry this is so late - unfortunatley i have now stopped studying this book but honestly ive never had to use page references but you could always use google books to find them?

rhianna

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Hey, Thanks so much for this.

I just wanted to ask what is the 'Yellow Wallpaper' stuff about? I'm so confused.

Please get back in touch, Many thanks