The novella, The Turn of the Screw, published in 1898, written by author Henry James, reflects on an experience of a young, little practiced, and emotionally at edge governess, whose name is never mentioned through out the writing, in the 1840’s. The story is known for its gothic, sinister, scary structure. James, startling, captures the audience attention by insightfully to not be cynical towards a creepy tale and gives several hints that are soon to be brought up in the actual story. The governess
In Henry James’ novel The Turn of The Screw, he creates bizarre events that involve ghosts and tricks. The story consists of a governess who is hired to take care of two children who belong to a man that plays their Uncle in the novel. The one instruction that he leaves the governess with is that she should never bother him if something were to ever happen to the children, but that she should take care of the problem herself. She doesn’t question this request and takes care of the children willingly
business schemes at the insistence of London’s mother a proud, erratic, unstable women whose actions went unchecked by her gentle but ineffective husband. London’s mother inspired in him a pride of race and the will to succeed, but for affection he had to turn to his step-father and