Paper Topic

For my paper, I will be examining the governess from “The Turn of the Screw.” If it can be assumed that she is hallucinating the ghosts, the question that gives meaning to the text is: why is she imagining them? I’m going to argue that her loneliness is the “hook” affect, kind of how we’ve been discussing “interest” to be in that it leads to other affects. In this case, her loneliness leads to fear and anxiety. The relationship all three have to each other determines the governess’s decisions, and thus, creates the apparitions she sees.