This novella starts off by pulling the audience into the story by a nameless narrator remembering a Christmas Eve get-together at an old home, where everyone is telling ghost stories around a fire. Douglas (an individual from the gathering) brings up a satire tale like no other. A tale about two children, Flora and Miles, and a governess. He reads the tale from a manuscript, then suddenly shifts to the protagonist, the governess, speaking from her point of view. The time set is around the 1840s and in a country home named Bly in Essex, England. The protagonist, a twenty year old women, who is well rounded character yet also sensitive and emotionally explosive. James makes you question anything that happens, he makes you stop and think if this
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First, the way the governess is so concerned with saving the children from the “corruption” of the ghosts, it makes it seem like it’s better to confront the living dead or be murdered than be corrupt. This “corruption” is a clear inference to the exposure and knowledge of sex because of “Quint was much too free.”(James 50). For example, “Those he liked? I seemed to float not into clearness, but into a darker obscure… of his being perhaps innocent. It was for the instant confounding…for if he were innocent, what then on earth was I? Paralyzed while it lasted…I suffered, feeling that I had nothing now there to keep him from.” (James 166) The way you don’t really know why Miles got expelled from school? That maybe the things he said might have been homosexual in nature. This makes the protagonist think and question who is guilty and who is really innocent? When Miles “…know[s] nothing in the world but love” (James 26) and he is a boy with a “greater sweetness of innocence [.]” (James 26) This shows how Miles is pure but how his innocence has maybe been corrupt by homosexual acts he has done, yet the protagonist is putting Miles in a horrible position which makes you say that she is the corrupt one. In Lord of the Flies, William Golding’s character Simon, a shy sensitive boy who symbolizes the good nature inside …show more content…
Evil. This classic gothic novel is a clash between good and evil. You have the clear bad guy, which is basically an eerie ghost lurker, and on the other side you have the good guy—which is a women—fighting to defend the innocence of her two pupils, but then you notice that it gets pretty confusing who is on whose side? You don’t know who is the bad guy or the good guy. In other words, “…Peter Quint had come into view…he offered once more to the room his white face of damnation…. in the very horror of immediate presence…seeing and facing what I saw and faced, to keep the boy himself unaware…. It was like fighting with a demon for a human soul, and when I fairly so appraised it I saw how the human soul—held out, in the tremor of my hands…” This shows a perfect example the struggle between good and evil. Quint and the governess are literary fighting over Miles’s soul. Just the governess is fighting for the good and Quint is fighting for the bad, in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible there are many examples of good vs. evil, America is going through a Second Red Scare. How the powerless young women now have a voice to go against anyone who wronged them before. Every character was in a good vs. evil scenario. For example, how Abigail, a young power hunger teenager and her followers went against the weak targets, like Rebecca, then to John Proctor the man she loved, but when he had to confess his affair, “I beg
First, the way the governess is so concerned with saving the children from the “corruption” of the ghosts, it makes it seem like it’s better to confront the living dead or be murdered than be corrupt. This “corruption” is a clear inference to the exposure and knowledge of sex because of “Quint was much too free.”(James 50). For example, “Those he liked? I seemed to float not into clearness, but into a darker obscure… of his being perhaps innocent. It was for the instant confounding…for if he were innocent, what then on earth was I? Paralyzed while it lasted…I suffered, feeling that I had nothing now there to keep him from.” (James 166) The way you don’t really know why Miles got expelled from school? That maybe the things he said might have been homosexual in nature. This makes the protagonist think and question who is guilty and who is really innocent? When Miles “…know[s] nothing in the world but love” (James 26) and he is a boy with a “greater sweetness of innocence [.]” (James 26) This shows how Miles is pure but how his innocence has maybe been corrupt by homosexual acts he has done, yet the protagonist is putting Miles in a horrible position which makes you say that she is the corrupt one. In Lord of the Flies, William Golding’s character Simon, a shy sensitive boy who symbolizes the good nature inside …show more content…
Evil. This classic gothic novel is a clash between good and evil. You have the clear bad guy, which is basically an eerie ghost lurker, and on the other side you have the good guy—which is a women—fighting to defend the innocence of her two pupils, but then you notice that it gets pretty confusing who is on whose side? You don’t know who is the bad guy or the good guy. In other words, “…Peter Quint had come into view…he offered once more to the room his white face of damnation…. in the very horror of immediate presence…seeing and facing what I saw and faced, to keep the boy himself unaware…. It was like fighting with a demon for a human soul, and when I fairly so appraised it I saw how the human soul—held out, in the tremor of my hands…” This shows a perfect example the struggle between good and evil. Quint and the governess are literary fighting over Miles’s soul. Just the governess is fighting for the good and Quint is fighting for the bad, in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible there are many examples of good vs. evil, America is going through a Second Red Scare. How the powerless young women now have a voice to go against anyone who wronged them before. Every character was in a good vs. evil scenario. For example, how Abigail, a young power hunger teenager and her followers went against the weak targets, like Rebecca, then to John Proctor the man she loved, but when he had to confess his affair, “I beg