Why does miles die in the turn of the screw

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Email alerts Article activity alert. Advance article alerts. New issue alert. Receive exclusive offers and updates from Oxford Academic. Readers who view the governess as mad tend to speculate that perhaps the governess killed him by hugging him too hard and smothering him.

Miles says now that all he did was to say things to a few people whom he liked and that they repeated these things to people they liked. He also admits that the things he said were probably bad enough to warrant expulsion. The things Miles said to the boys he liked may well have concerned homosexuality or something else of a sexual nature.

Because The Turn of the Screw scrupulously observes the taboo against mentioning sex or homosexuality explicitly, the story insists that we supply the answer and take responsibility for seeing lurid and prurient meanings ourselves.

SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook. Convinced that the ghosts are a threat to the children, the governess sends Flora away with Mrs. Grose when she comes down with a fever, leaving her and Miles alone in the house. Even the housekeeper, Hannah tells Dani that Miss Jessel drowned herself into the lake when her relationship with her boyfriend Peter Quint, played by Oliver Jackson-Cohen, failed.

The Turn of the Screw, a novella by Henry James released in is the basis for the creepy Netflix show. Readers who view the governess as mad tend to speculate that perhaps the governess killed him by hugging him too hard and smothering him. While James used them as having thematic and symbolic utilities, the ghosts are also real, suggesting that the spirits of Miss Jessel and Pter Quint are genuine, too.

The average reader will spend 2 hours and 38 minutes reading this book at WPM words per minute. Later on, as Miles distracts the Governess in the music room, Flora runs off. He died by slipping on an icy path when drunk. She has come to ask the governess to leave Bly because Flora says that she is frightened of her and never wants to speak to her or see her again.

The governess insists on staying and manages to convince Mrs. Grose to take Flora away from the evil influence of Bly instead. The governess tells Mrs. I was looking for ghost stories because sitting at home all day really makes you crave a jolt of adrenaline through your blood. The two plan to run away together, but he inexplicably leaves without a trace.

The only explanation for why she drags people into the water is to soothe her loneliness. Perdita killed her, Arthur married her sister, and he left with their daughter. Everyone she loved left her or betrayed her in some way, resulting in her own resentment building over time but, even more than that, her loneliness. Although their deaths took place off-screen well before the start of the story, it was the deaths of Charlotte and Dominic Wingrave that ultimately set in motion the series of events that brought Dani to Bly Manor.

If ever, Hannah rarely ate or drank anything because she no longer required food or drink to stay alive. Unlike Viola, it seems she can leave the premises of Bly. In the final moments, Jamie falls asleep with the hotel door open, and the tub full.