The Turn Of The Screw Research Paper

The Turn of the Screw Do you believe in ghosts? In the Turn of the Screw, the governess sees two ghosts of former Bly employees. The ghosts, Peter Quint and Miss. Jessel, are evil spirits and have come back to communicate with the children, Miles and Flora. The governess sees the ghosts and feels like she must protect the children from them. One night, she hears a noise outside her bedroom door and goes to check on it. “The apparition had reached the landing halfway up and was therefore on the spot nearest the window, where at sight of me, it stopped short and fixed me exactly as it had fixed me from the tower and from the garden.” (40). The governess ran into Peter Quint’s ghost. The governess and Quint only stare at each other until he turns and descends back down the staircase. Quint was on his way to Miles’s bedroom to talk with him, or engage in inappropriate behavior. Previously to this encounter, Mrs. Grose informed the governess that Peter Quint “did what he wished” with Miss. Jessel and everyone else at Bly, including the children. This makes the governess feel she must keep the children away from the evil spirits trying to communicate with them. …show more content…
The governess assumes the child is looking out the window for Miss. Jessel as she did on a previous night. The governess then leaves the room to look down upon the grounds from a different window, hoping she sees Miss. Jessel on the lawn. Instead, the governess is shocked to see Miles outside on the lawn looking toward the window she watched him from. “-Looking, that is, not so much straight at me as at something that was apparently above me,”(43). The governess immediately knows there is “another person above me-there was a person on the tower”(43). Miles wandered out of bed to look for Peter Quint in the towers, before the governess rushed outside to put him back to