The Turn Of The Screw By Henry James
..What does he matter now, my own?
This is a horror/ thriller novella about a governess who experiences some supernatural phenomena while taking care of her charges. A rich young man sends her to take care of his nephew and niece and instructs her to not bother him in any way. However simple the storyline may seem, the writing style has made it difficult to assimilate.
Henry Jame’s writing style is intentionally ambiguous, unstructured and misleading. It seems that he wants his readers to interpret the story by finding clues or explanation externally. The words he chooses are bloated with emotions. Each character responds preternaturally to simple situations;but in the situations which are paranormal, they appear quite at peace. In other words,the author has magnified the normal and undermined the paranormal as if to show that there is nothing extraordinary in the supernatural and human emotions are more prodigious than effect of ghosts. Unfortunately, complicated sentence structure and the careless use of modifiers have rendered this tale unfit for consumption by occasional readers. The language seems so pretentious at some junctures as to overpower the genuine emotions of characters the author had intended to describe. The novella lacks the character development of Dostoevsky ,romance of Oscar Wilde ,Persistence of Charles Dickens and economy of Bertrand Russel. In toto, despite the psychoanalytical interpretations that this work is capable of, it in no way stands its own reputation. This novel is recommend only if it is the only work the reader possesses.
..What does he matter now, my own?
This is a horror/ thriller novella about a governess who experiences some supernatural phenomena while taking care of her charges. A rich young man sends her to take care of his nephew and niece and instructs her to not bother him in any way. However simple the storyline may seem, the writing style has made it difficult to assimilate.
Henry Jame’s writing style is intentionally ambiguous, unstructured and misleading. It seems that he wants his readers to interpret the story by finding clues or explanation externally. The words he chooses are bloated with emotions. Each character responds preternaturally to simple situations;but in the situations which are paranormal, they appear quite at peace. In other words,the author has magnified the normal and undermined the paranormal as if to show that there is nothing extraordinary in the supernatural and human emotions are more prodigious than effect of ghosts. Unfortunately, complicated sentence structure and the careless use of modifiers have rendered this tale unfit for consumption by occasional readers. The language seems so pretentious at some junctures as to overpower the genuine emotions of characters the author had intended to describe. The novella lacks the character development of Dostoevsky ,romance of Oscar Wilde ,Persistence of Charles Dickens and economy of Bertrand Russel. In toto, despite the psychoanalytical interpretations that this work is capable of, it in no way stands its own reputation. This novel is recommend only if it is the only work the reader possesses.
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