Turn of the Screw- Henry James (with references)
"Henry James was born at two Washington Place in New York City on April 15,1843. He was the second son to Henry James, Sr., an independently wealthy intellectual, and Mary Robertson James. From 1843 to 1845, James took his first trip to Europe. He lived in New York City with his family at 58 West 14th Street. James was educated privately by governess and tutors in New York and Albany. In 1855, he traveled to Europe with his family and attended schools in Switzerland and France. In 1860, with the outbreak of the Civil War, The James family moved back to the United States and settled in Newport. James was unable to enlist in the Union army with his two younger brothers due to a back injury he received when putting out a fire. In 1863, James and his older brother William attended Harvard. James did not complete his studies to pursue his writing career. William graduated from Harvard and became one of the most prominent American philosophers and psychologists of his time. James began his professional writing career with book reviews for the North American Review. His first short story, "The Story of the Year," appeared in Atlantic Monthly in 1865. In 1866, the James family moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts. James had h
Deeply disturbed by World War I, as James was with all wars, James did refugee and hospital work during the war. In 1915, James became a citizen of Great Britain. On December 2nd of the same year, James suffered from a stroke. After receiving the Order of Merit from King George V, the following year, James died in Chelsea on the 28th of February. His ashes are buried with his family's in Cambridge Massachusetts. In 1917, an unfinished autobiography was published entitled, The Middle Years." (Heller) The governess tries to protect her charges, but it is difficult to find a way to discuss the situation with them, because she suspects the children are willingly receptive to the ghosts. "Furthermore, despite much circumstantial and inferential evidence, she is never perfectly sure that the children communicate with the ghosts. She loves Miles and Flora dearly and is unwilling to introduce them to thoughts of evil if she is mistaken in her interpretation of what she has seen." Tompkins, Jane P, ed. Twentieth Century Interpretations of the Turn of the Screw. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc. The most memorable part of the story was the conversation between the governess and the housekeeper, Mrs. Grose, in which they first discuss the first ghost, which the governess has seen. The governess gives a detailed description of the stranger she had seen outside the window. "He has red hair, very red close-curling, and a pale face... with straight good features and rather queer whiskers that are as red as his hair... His eyes are rather sharp, strange--- awfully..." "My companion's face blanched as I went on; her round eyes started and her mild mouth gaped..." The housekeeper identified the apparition as Peter Quint, the deceased valet of the children's uncle. (James p.23)
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Approximate Word count = 2617
Approximate Pages = 10 (250 words per page double spaced)
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