The Turn of the Screw | Ideas for Group Discussions
The Turn of the Screw is an intriguing puzzle that stimulates readers to unravel its mysteries. If the ghosts are real, the governess is a positive heroine who struggles bravely to save the children; if they are her hallucinations, she inflicts the consequences of her disturbed mental state on the children. In the first case, James has written a superbly scary ghost story; in the second, he has given us a fine psychological study of a woman going insane. Or perhaps he has done both things simultaneously. These conflicting approaches and the variety of interpretations they can...
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