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Canterbury Tales English Period
1,169 words... than half of those owns of his which have come down to us. Besides a number of shorter poems, there are five or site other major works in verse and two or three is prose. With these i will not examine. But in the De Consolation e Philosophiae of Boethius and the Treatise on the Astrolabe, both of which are accepted as genuine, and another scientific essay, the Equatorie of the Planets, dating from the year 1392. This piece of work was discovered after WWII. In the Library of Peter house, Cam...
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Turn Of The Screw Miss Jessel
1,861 wordsLiterary criticism on The Turn of the Screw has been divided into 3 groups, concerning the plot. The first is to take the novel at face value, and say that it is a ghost story, that the children are possessed by the ghosts. Others have said that it is a psychological drama that plays upon some of Freud's theses - the ghosts are hallucinations of a sexually repressed girl who has been given a sudden boost in responsibility, and her madness corrupts the beautiful. The third is to say that the nove...
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State Of Mind Miss Jessel
1,207 words... alk in the afternoon whenever she had her own time. She longed to see the master in her walk. She claimed to see some man that she first thought to be the master on the top of the tower while taking a stroll outside one afternoon: One of the thoughts that, as I dont in the least shrink now from noting, used to be with me in these wanderings was that it would be as charming as a charming story suddenly to meet some one KI only asked that he should know; and the only way to be sure he knew wou...
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Turn Of The Screw Miss Jessel
1,389 wordsIn Henry James' novella The Turn of the Screw we are presented with an unreliable governess that tells a story about a haunted mansion. The novella is so ambiguous that at the end the question still remains: do the ghosts exist or is the governess going wildly insane? The film version, directed by Jack Clayton is much less ambiguous, but with evidence of both sides. The Innocents leans more toward the fact that the ghosts do exist and the children are possessed, although they might not realize i...
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Turn Of The Screw Cambridge Massachusetts
1,233 wordsIn 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. ...
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1,230 words... rate a psychological thriller, and that the governess was insane, the apparitions being only figments of her imagination. Krishna Baldev Vaid is one of the critics who believe that James wrote The Turn of the Screw, as a great ghost story, and that the governess is a truthful and reliable narrator. Vaid notes that "James's narrators, as a rule, are endowed with a fine intuitive awareness" He also notes that "James repeatedly employs the intuitions of the governess to maintain suspense and to...
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Troilus And Criseyde Chaucer
2,396 wordsIn Todays writing, writers conform to the readers wants and needs, contrary to the writers of the 13 th and 14 th centuries. In these times writers wrote from the heart not from the pocket book. They wrote on their beliefs and morals and dreams. But never did they judge. Their styles taken from their trials and tribulations. As so in Geoffery Chaucer's works he used his life experiences to influence his every word. Geoggrey Chaucer is the first likely personality in English, and we know more abo...
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Governess Sees The Figure Mystery Of Udolpho Master
830 wordsThe notion of psychology and the supernatural is related in The Turn of the Screw. Psychology here refers to the governess unconscious state of mind in the novel. The supernatural here refers to the apparitions of Peter Quint and Miss Jersey. Throughout the novel, only the governess and no other characters can see them. The ambiguity of Henry James creates the question of whether the supernatural is real, or are they psychological manifestations of the governess. After examining the novel, there...
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