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The Governess: Victim of Inhuman Victorian Conventions in the Turn of the Screw

Author: LiuLi
Tutor: XiaoMingHan
School: Sichuan Normal University
Course: English Language and Literature
Keywords: Family female teachers Victorian customs Tighten the screws
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Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2010
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Abstract


\constantly . The main aim of this paper on the basis of views in no such thing as the soul , through the analysis of the family female teachers mad reason , the process and its mad consequences, to arrive at novel castigate the dehumanizing aspects of Victorian customs . This article first female teacher of the family narrative unreliability raised a new argument that in the novel , the ghost does not exist , but rather her hallucinations . Then , based on the analysis of the family female teachers psychiatric performance , further analysis of the reasons and process of the mad , and I believe that strong on gender, class , money , marriage , religion, social customs of her subconscious , with her humanity conflict and brutally repressed ultimately allow her to produce the illusion of a ghost ; while serious alienation, loss of faith , love and sexual prejudice other factors in her , she completely lost self , reduced to Victoria dehumanizing customs victim. Finally, the paper reveals the inner into the handling of the personal will of the powerful custom , loss of self after family female teachers , long-term suppression of the nature of children , the implementation of the irrational torture , ultimately resulting in the death of the little boy and the little girl is almost crazy swap consequences. The conclusion of the paper is the novel deeply critical of the non- human social customs of Victorian England .

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