Turn Of The Screw Analysis

The story begins with the description of the ‘sad city’ (’the saddest of cities, a city so ruinously sad that it had forgotten its name’) where lived 'Haroun' together with his father, the well-known storyteller 'Rashid', ‘whose cheerfulness was famous throughout that unhappy metropolis’ and his mother, 'Soraya', who then runs off with their neighbor, ‘Mr. Sengupta’. Thereafter Haroun finds it impossible to concentrate on one thing for more than 11 minutes (his mother left at 11 o’clock), and Rashid loses his ability to tell stories because of Haroun’s harsh words . After being hired by the local politicians ('Snooty Buttoo') the storyteller and Haroun spends the night at the so-called Arabian Nights Plus One houseboat, where the young boy …show more content…
But it is also the paintbrush of expressing our thoughts through art, an expressive element of songs. Just like in Rushdie’s story (the two sides and groups of the moon), even words have a double side: it creates beauty, but it can also destroy it.
3. ‘The Turn of the Screw’
As it was mentioned at the beginning, stories have the power to attract, gather people. A perfect example would be Henry James’ ‘The Turn of the Screw’ short story. An anonymous narrator remembers a Christmas gathering, where he listens to a friend, Douglas, read the manuscript of a former governess. The manuscript tells the story of how she is hired by a handsome man to be the governess of his young nephew and niece after their parent’s death. He lives in London and is uninterested in the education of the children. As Douglas begins to read the manuscript, point of view shifts to the young governess as she recalls her strange experience at Bly, where she meets the handsome bachelor’s niece, Flora and Mrs. Grose, the housemaid. Later they find out from a letter that the boy, Miles is expelled from his boarding school, but it is not specified why: ‘They simply express their regret that it should be impossible to keep him.’ (Chapter