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    You have to utilize the screws in various situations. There are various kinds of screws available in the market as per the need and application. When you need screws for concrete, you cannot avoid Tapcons. They are perfect for concrete surfaces. Screws help in joining things together but there are certain surfaces where you cannot use an ordinary screw. If you need to position a screw on the concrete material, bricks or a block bottom material, you can…

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    Constructions in ‘The Turn of the Screw.’ ” Style, Penn State University Press, vol. 25, no. 1 spring, 1991, pp. 71-88. Style, a literary journal published out of Penn State, focuses on criticism in the fields of the stylistics of novels, novella’s as well as poems. As of the nineties Style has broaden through fields to that of psychology and pedagogy. In its 1991 spring volume they published the essay. “Ghostly Ambiguity: Presuppositional Constructions in ‘The Turn of the Screw.’ ” Written…

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    The Turn of the Screw The ghosts in The Turn of the Screw are not sincere because the Governess is not sane, the Governess is the only one who sees the ghosts, and the Governess has a very obscure personality. The first reason why the ghosts in this story are not real is because the Governess is not sane. The Governess has many situations in which ghosts are in her existence. One example is when she was reading her book and felt the sudden urge to go downstairs, and the “ghost” of Peter Quint…

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    the audience’s fear. Henry James became fascinated by the horror genre and used the fear tactic to craft many of his writings. One of his tactics is the usage of Ambiguity in his writings which included mysterious horror stories. In the Turn of The Screw, Henry James uses ambiguity in his writing to try to convert readers to critical thinkers based on his use of structure, diction, and tone. Depending on the reader’s interpretations throughout the book, one may interpret that Miles and…

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    INTRODUCTION The turn of the screw is a gothic ghost story novella written at the end of Victorian era by Henry James. Henry James(1843-1916) was English essayist, critic and author of “The Ambassadors”(1903), “Portrait of a Lady”(1881) and “The Turn of the Screw”(1897). James finished The Turn of the Screw in November 1897, and the story was published in Collier's Weekly between January and April of 1898. This American-born novelist became one of his generation’s most well-known writers…

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    Turn Of The Screw Analysis

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    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…

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    Written Response- Henry James Turn of the Screw • Which assertion do you find to be most persuasive and why? Harold C. Goddard’s assertive implication (with roots to the Freudian theory) that the governess, the heroine of Turn of the Screw, suffers from psychological fixations and a hallucinatory narrative of ghosts derived from her passion of the employer is a detailed observation of the novels alternate, all be it underlined, narrative of Henry James asking questions and demonstrating themes…

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    “The Of The Screw” is a story about a young women that is employed to watch over two young children, Flora and Miles. The story is being told by the governess and her ordeal while staying at Bly. See the governess is a young and beautiful lady that was raised in a sheltered household with little to no life experiences. Her father was a preacher so she was religious. She gets emotionally fast and falls in love quick as well. After meeting her employer, Douglas for the second time she started to…

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    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…

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    The battle between the humble governess and the evil Quint in The Turn of The Screw rages on. The author of the ambiguous novella, Henry James, includes few vague details while writing his book. While reading his book, it is important to make predictions about what is happening. Throughout the book, the governess tries to protect the two innocent children from the ghost of Peter Quint. A group could argue all day about what happened in this book. Different characters play the different roles of…

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