What Is The Metaphor In The Turn Of The Screw

Henry James, “The Turn of the Screw”, title is a metaphor for the story about the Governess. She is the metaphor screw and the events that occurs thought the story turns the screw tighter. Picture a screw being tighten into an object. As the screw gets tighter eventually it can turn anymore or breaks. The point to where the screw breaks is the Governess not able to take no more. The story she has many questions about all the strange events that happens. She searches for answers, which possible ends to the death of Miles or her gone completely crazy. The governess was hired by the children’s uncle to watch over them. Once she moves into Bly strange events start happening. The first few there she would for “a moment…recognized… the cry of a child” and hear “light footsteps”, but she felt that “these

Nothing major seem to happened that caught her interested until Miles got kicked out of school. This was the first full turn of the screw for the Governess. She never stops thinking about how a boy that Mrs. Grose talked highly about could have done something to get expelled from school. Could Mrs. Grose be protecting Miles because she knows who he real is? She dwells on the reasons and never truly get the reason why. She questions Mrs. Grose if miles was a bad boy and what could he have done. Miles finally tells her at the end it was ‘” well-I said things”’ (James 130), but then we never get told what he said. Soon she found herself wondering about the old governess nothing is said that much about he but that she left and rumor had it she died. The master, the uncle, added a few more turns. The Governess seem to always have him on her mind and when she spots first