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This paper is an analytical approach to James’s The Turn of the Screw which highlights the contradictory interpretations, as well as the ambiguity of the novella. The boy, Miles, dies in the governess’s arms during the culmination of a psychic battle between the governess and the ghost of Peter Quint. The girl, Flora, denies having seen the wraiths and, apparently hysterical, is sent to her uncle in London. The new governess has profound suspicions that the children are involved with the ghosts she confronts the children individually and during that inquiring one of the apparitions appears to the governess, bringing the action to a calamity. The apparitions are those of Peter Quint, a man formerly employed in the household, and Miss Jessel, the previous governess. The story focuses on a young, naïve governess who is confronted by a pair of ghosts that she suspects is corrupting the two young children in her charge. It begins in an old house on Christmas Eve. The Turn of the Screw is an intense psychological tale of terror.
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