The effects of narrative point of view in Henry James’ “The Turn of the Screw” The novel The Turn of the Screw written by Henry James is narrated in first person by a man in the beginning who is with Douglas, the one who tells the story about the governess from the letter she sent him. Therefore the story is read by Douglas, which is narrated in first person by the governess. She tells of how there are ghosts on the property (Bly) and how they are trying to get to the children. The governess tries to protect the children from the ghosts who were former employees of the house. Having the story be told in first person can create many effects on how the story is told.
She is a woman whom one can look upon in sickness and woe. She is held in the highest regard as an ultimate symbol of feminine grace that is reflected through her way of talking and speaking and even through the feelings and sentiments she expresses. Indeed, grace glows with her beauty. The reticent Shakuntala on the other hand serves as an icon of limpidness, unselfishness, simplicity and diffidence. She is decent in all her words.
A Haunting Love The story A Haunted House by Virginia Woolf is a reflective short story embodying aspects of both symbolism and imagery. It is a story of a wandering ghost couple who go back to the home they lived in to search for their lost treasure. The time period is never clearly stated but it appears to be a long time ago, possibly in the late 1800’s at an old English house with a garden.The story is narrated in the third-person limited or the limited omniscience point of view which helps the reader to get a more in-depth perception of how the ghosts and the living people feel and helps the reader understand some of the thoughts that these flat, static characters have throughout the story. This story differs from common ghost stories as these ghosts are not portrayed as the antagonists but as the protagonists. The story has many instances of symbolism and imagery and can also be said to serve as a representation of a part of the author’s life.
The glass could also be a relation to the famous feminist theory “The glass ceiling” Ambiguity- The plot basically revolves around the ambiguity in the book. The author and the narrator are separate things. From the very beginning of the book we have the governess's story introduced as a ghost story to scare friends around a fire and then we have the account, read out by somebody else. How he got the account in the first place is a bit ambiguous. Then what does the governess see and doesn't see?
The story “A Haunted House” by Virginia Woolf is a short story in the fantasy genre, narrated in the third-person point of view, about a ghost couple and a living couple occupying the same house. The time period of the story is not clear but it seems to be a long time ago, at an old English house with a garden. The story begins with a “ghostly couple” looking for their treasure, in the house they previously lived in while alive. While alive, the ghosts lived in the house more than a century before the current residents. The woman died first, this is when the man left her and the house, he “went North, went East, saw the stars turned in the Southern sky.” Later when the man died, he returned to join the woman ghost at the house they occupied while together.
Josephine Tey is a pseudonym under which Scottish author and playwright Elizabeth Mackintosh published mystery novels. Mackintosh used a second pseudonym, Gordon Daviot, for her plays and also in her personal life, which she guarded zealously. Tey avoided the press, shunned photographers, and never granted interviews. For this reason, and the fact that she kept only a small circle of friends, Tey is a difficult subject for a biographical paper. Due to the lack of information from other sources, Tey’s novels can be examined for insights to her character and experiences.
Indeed, since she can’t draw the conclusion about the problem of “women and fiction”, she elects to deliver such pat remarks hoping to explore the issues in deeper ways. Though she can’t draw the conclusion, she makes a thesis that “a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction”. But she admits that there is a limit: “that leaves the great problem of the true nature of woman and the true nature of fiction unsolved”. To show how she arrives at this thesis, she designs this essay of “A Room of One’s Own”. And she also explains how she never be able to draw a conclusion is that “when a subject is highly controversial….one cannot hope to tell the truth.
The evil that I felt was portrayed in Charlotte Temple is not the independence Charlotte wants, but the realization that she can’t get her independence happily without the financial and emotional assistance that others can give her. She even admits her confinement to being reliant on others after the letter from her parents. She says, “I will not wound the hearts of those dear parents who make my happiness the whole study of their lives…"(Rowson 46). This evil element of trying to discover her own independence taunts Charlotte throughout the text. Charlotte Temple, by Susannah Rowson was popular in the 19th Century simply because it was just that; simple.
It can be argued that I’m The King Of The Castle is a novel about the need for communication between people because the lack of communication and understanding between Kingshaw and his mother create issues or prevent problems from being solved. Mrs. Kingshaw ‘s lack of effort in communicating with Kingshaw exacerbates the struggle that Kingshaw is going through, as on top of the torment he is receiving from Hooper, Kingshaw feels that he cannot even turn to his mother for help or comfort. Kingshaw also is subject to Hooper’s schemes because Hooper knows that Kingshaw does not have a good relationship with his mother, and that he could do anything to Kingshaw without being punished or make up lies about Kingshaw and know that Mrs. Kingshaw and Mr. Hooper would side with Hooper. Mrs. Kingshaw does not understand Kingshaw’s character, as she would know that Kingshaw did not do the things that Hooper accused him if doing if she knew what his personality was. Mr. Hooper also does not understand Edmund, and does not see his malevolent, manipulative ways.
Margaret Atwood makes use of several dichotomies throughout her novel, all to demonstrate how the truth is in the eye of the beholder. On the surface, the novel appears to be about a well put together woman searching for her father; however, in reality, this novel dives deep into a person’s essential nature where appearance and reality are anything but the same. She reminds readers that in reality, appearances barely scratch the surface of the truth. In Surfacing, Atwood relates new experiences to previous events that affect the narrator’s adult life, therefore ruining many of her relationships between her and loved ones. In the novel, the story places a position on the narrator’s feelings towards the blue bird known as the heron.