Mental Illness In The Governess

In the story, the governess, who is hired to care for two young children, exhibits signs of mental illness as she tends to the estate, the servants, and her own sexual frustration. During the story she claims to see Peter Quint and Miss Jessel who had close ties with Flora and Miles. The governess shows great compassion and protection over the niece and nephew as well displays great loneliness and in return she may be fantasizing these characters so the governess can fill the need of protecting the two children and being able to put her focus on something to keep occupied.
Doctors claim there are many illness in which cause hallucinogens and can obtain the difficulty of being able to differ real from imaginary. The governess displays symptoms

She feels as the man who is standing there could be Flora and Miles uncle who may have came in from London. The governess had only meant the uncle twice but yet can rule out that the man standing on top of the tower was not him. Although her sighting was strange she brushed it off and told know one. Even though it was at all times in the back of the governesses head until the second sighting of the strange man. The governess while meeting Mrs. Grose the Bly housekeeper for church spots the strange intruder once more. She sees the man looking in the window staring intensely at her the governess then runs out to confront the man only to find he has vanished. The governess startled looks white and frightened Mrs. Grose concerned asked what had happened. The governess then tells in detail what she has saw. Mrs Grose explains to the governess that she feels as though the strange man she saw was Peter Quint who had spent a great deal of time with Miles until his death. This puts panic into the governess as though she questions what happened especially with the already known fear of what type of kid Miles is. She is compelled to stay back and

In the Turn of The Screw the governess battles with over protectiveness, hallucinations and loneliness within herself. She tries to find things to keep her mind off her developing medical/psychological diseases and focuses on the two young children who she had promised to take care of. She has made up vision of two people Miss Jessel and Peter Quint to give her a reason to focus her mind on protecting Flora and Miles she had been willing to move to Bly and take care. If the uncle would have went with a different governess and the children grew up in a different environment over the summer they wouldn 't have potentially Died as in Miles case and became very ill with a fever in Floras