The Little Governess

Spanish” (Brown). Likewise, in Henry James’s, The Turn of the Screw, the Governess experiences immense stress because she cannot handle her overwhelming role as the children’s caretaker which progressively turns her insane. The author illustrates how being naive can lead to an individual to becoming insane.

‘The Turn of the Screw’ (published 1998) and ‘Notes on a Scandal’ (published 2003), falls destitute to moral code, and the three women featured in the novels all have very little tribute to that, leaving an ambiguous immorality that communicates no real or clear moral purpose. The focal point of the three women’s’, as they descend into the selfishness of their own desires, is the consequences’ that are left behind – families devastated, children disturbed and moralities left to completely diminish

The governess in the Turn of the Screw hallucinates ghosts throughout the novella. The novella is in order of all of her memories on the situation and is in her perspective. In the Turn of the Screw, Henry James reveals an ambiguous reality through the governess, who eventually doubts her own perceptions. In the beginning, the governess trusts her own perception entirely, but after some time it is revealed through her actions that neither she nor the readers can completely trust her perception of

Henry James's Turn of the Screw was written in a time when open sexuality was looked down upon. On the surface, the story is simply about a governess taking care of two children who are haunted by two ghosts. However, the subtext of the story is about the governess focusing on the children's innocence, and the governess trying to find her own sexual identity. Priscilla L. Walton wrote a gender criticism themed essay about the Turn of the Screw, which retells certain parts of the story and touches

mental state. Upon arriving at the estate it is clear that the governess adores the children and is eager at her opportunity to mold them. She states, “But it was a comfort that there could be no uneasiness in a connection with anything so beatific as the radiant image of my little girl, the vision of whose angelic beauty had probably more than anything else to do with the restlessness” (30). After a mere one day on the job, the governess has already put Flora on such a high pedestal that she would

Diagnosis, a medical website composed by certified doctors, states that aggression, suspicion, and hallucinations are all symptoms of insanity. The governess is insane because of her aggressiveness, excessive anxiety, and imagination of the ghosts. The governess is insane because her aggressive nature brings harm to the children. For example, the governess has a mental breakdown on the lake and accuses Flora of lying about seeing

which is situated in Essex. It revolves around the story’s main protagonist, the Governess, acquires a job taking care of two young children, Miles and Flora, at their home in Bly and subsequently leaves her old life behind. When she arrives, she is pleasantly surprised by the children’s delightful demeanour and impeccable manners and for a short period of time, remains in awe of this. However, as time goes on, the Governess begins to notice some oddities in the children’s behaviour and eventually it

called Bly, and its inhabitants. Two children, Miles and Flora, are taught by a young governess who believes the children are conversing with their dead caretakers. She constantly sees the dead workers, Miss Jessel and Peter Quint, without anyone else ever seeing them. Mysteriously, the Uncle is not present and wants nothing to do with the children or the governess. In this essay, the sanity of the governess with be questioned by looking at her motives on why she may see the ghosts, whether or not

narrator of the story, the governess, is constantly placed into situations where, coming from her point of view, appear to be fantastic and unnatural. Apparitions, mysterious deaths, and unlikely events begs the question of what really might be happening at the Bly estate. Flora’s act of being able to row the boat by herself to the opposing shore infers that Flora is superhuman, and quite possibly, a child that is possessed by a supernatural being. Shortly before the governess discovers Flora’s disappearance

are real or if the governess is sane or insane. That leaves the interpretation of the governess' mental state up to the reader. The governess is the one that tells most of the story, and in my opinion, she proves herself to be very unreliable and, therefore, insane. The reasons why I think the governess was insane are as follows. First, the governess is the only one in the story who admits to seeing the ghosts. Second, the governess seemed to become very suspicious