English 104 - Introduction to Narrative
October 19, 2003 - October 25, 2003
What Windows Reveal: How the Repetition of Physical Framing Serves Unique Purposes in Wuthering Heights and The Turn of the Screw
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Jennifer Bernstein
By repeatedly emphasizing each character’s placement around windows, both Bronte and James shed light on the desires and intentions of their characters. And it is through this emphasis that these authors apply to these windows the metaphorical value of being the transition space between the wild, experienced, outside world, and...
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Posted by jbernste on October 23, 2003 at 10:03 AM
Ghost as a Means of Developing Two Novels
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Mike Stratton
Ghosts haunt the living as a means of not being forgotten. Ghosts appear to characters in the novels Wuthering Heights and The Turn of The Screw, the authors uses their appearance to display details and develop characters. When a ghost is seen, those who witness the phenomena seek information about...
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Posted by mstratto on October 23, 2003 at 09:53 AM
Stained Glass Frames
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Jim Light
From humble rumpus rooms to grand Gothic cathedrals, churches strive to be representations of the characteristics of God on earth. Obviously such a claim can never be fully realized. However, churches hold an association with righteousness and harmony that is found nowhere else. It is in this light that authors...
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Posted by jlight on October 23, 2003 at 09:51 AM
Repeating Repetition
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Alex Smith
Both The Turn of the Screw by Henry James and Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë use repetition as an important tool for connecting the past, the present, and the future. From the seemingly mundane repetition of words to the repetition of particular narrative frames, then to the use of...
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Posted by asmith9 on October 23, 2003 at 09:51 AM
Repetition: Point of View Multiplicity as a Determinant of the Stabilization, or Destabilization of a Reader’s Understanding of Novels
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Alex Paul
Although when reading a novel it is easy to disregard recurring plot similarities as mere coincidence, it often becomes clear, after a close observation of such instances, that the author’s use of repetition serves a special purpose. Such is the case in Wuthering Heights and The Turn of the Screw,...
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Posted by apaul on October 23, 2003 at 09:50 AM
Where Sexuality and Status Lie in the Servants of England
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Meredeth Lammert
Meredith Lammert Essay #1 10/23/03 Where Sexuality and Status Lie in the Servants of England Relationships of gender and social status are central connecting themes in Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw and Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights. Sexuality is the main current through which gender relationships are exhibited....
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Posted by mlammert on October 23, 2003 at 09:47 AM
05 Blog assignment
Category: 05 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Mark Phillipson
Post before class on Tuesday 10/28 "I reckoned he believed in the A-rabs and the elephants, but as for me I think different. It had all the marks of a Sunday-school." (HF ch. III) Huck's world is full of elements that aren't quite what they're said to be. Pick one...
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Posted by mphillip on October 23, 2003 at 09:46 AM
Self Image and Ghostly Visions
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte
Liz Professor Phillipson Intro to Narrative Self Image and Ghostly Visions In gothic novels, supernatural happenings are commonplace, and sometimes, these ghostly occurrences are products of the protagonist’s active imaginations. In both The Turn of the Screw by Henry James and Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, characters use the appearance...
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Posted by ebutton on October 23, 2003 at 09:41 AM
Social Consciousness
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Kendall Brown
Kendall Brown 10/11/03 ENG 104 Henry James’ Turn of the Screw and Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights both deal with the issue of social class; this theme becomes a thread woven through both novels and is constantly informs the narrative framework of each. The specific way that the narrators view the...
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Posted by kbrown2 on October 23, 2003 at 09:28 AM
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Julie Calareso
Julie Calareso 10/13/03 Introduction to Narrative The Turn of the Screw vs. Wuthering Heights. Boo! “I muttered, knocking my knuckles through the glass, and stretching an arm out to seize the importunate branch: instead of which, my fingers closed on the fingers of a little, ice-cold hand!” (Bronte 20). In...
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Posted by jcalares on October 23, 2003 at 09:27 AM
The Physical Frames of Henry James and Emily Bronte
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Drew Fulton
Masters of narrative, Henry James and Emily Bronte take full advantage of the technique of the frame story in their novels, The Turn of the Screw and Wuthering Heights. While each novel begins with the traditional frame story structure, each author extends the concept of framing characters to a more...
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Posted by afulton on October 23, 2003 at 09:25 AM
Reader Involvement in Wuthering Heights and The Turn of the Screw
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Jeff Nolin
Henry James’ novel The Turn of the Screw and Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights display many similarities in the way that each author attempts to tell the story. Each author chooses a narrator that is not omniscient, and because of this the reader experiences the story from an objective viewpoint. Because...
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Posted by jnolin on October 23, 2003 at 09:07 AM
WH vs TS
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Jannelle Richardson
Emily Bronte, author of Wuthering Heights, and Henry James, author of Turn of the Screw use the literary device repetition to support their different messages. Both authors use the device effectively, yet differently to expose tragic flaws within the main characters. Bronte uses repetition to correct the flaws within...
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Posted by jrichar2 on October 23, 2003 at 08:59 AM
the class factor
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Jin-Sun Kim
Jin-Sun Kim October 21, 2003 Into To Narrative Mark Phillipson The Class Factor In Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw and in Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, different narrators from the norm are used to tell the story. In both these novels, the narrators are at a lower social status...
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Posted by jkim3 on October 23, 2003 at 08:50 AM
Violence as a Result of the Repression of Sexuality in Wuthering Heights and The Turn of the Screw
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Ryan Helminiak
Like a tsunami that originates from tensions at the bottom of the ocean, the repression of underlying sexual tensions in The Turn of the Screw and in Wuthering Heights causes a monstrous wave of violence. Both books are framed by the repression of sexual feelings. In Turn of the Screw,...
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Posted by rhelmini on October 23, 2003 at 08:16 AM
Obscuring the Past: Contrasting the Effects of Silences in The Turn of the Screw and Wuthering Heights
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Greg Pearson
In their novels The Turn of the Screw and Wuthering Heights, Henry James and Emily Bronte each withhold from the reader significant details from their character’s pasts. These silences, while similar on the basic level that some fact has been obscured, are nonetheless used to achieve very different ends. In...
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Posted by gpearson on October 23, 2003 at 07:59 AM
Can you hear me now? Bad!
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Dro Joseney
Life is long. What happens when you run out of time to live your life? In Emily Bronte’s novel Wuthering Heights and Henry James’s gothic novel Turn of the Screw, torment follows when time runs out. In Bronte’s novel, Catherine and Heathcliff have a relationship and Catherine dies. Heathcliff...
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Posted by cjoseney on October 23, 2003 at 05:18 AM
Social Status and Difference Between a Good and Bad Narration
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Aki Makino
The two novels, The Turn of the Screw by Henry James and Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, are told by people of lower social status. The governess of The Turn of the Screw portrays us the events at the Bly, such as her encounters with aberrations and her observations...
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Posted by amakino on October 23, 2003 at 05:06 AM
The Fatal Flaw of Selfishness
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Eli Maitland
The Turn of the Screw and Wuthering Heights: The Fatal Flaw of Selfishness In many well known literary works, the main characters in each story often possess one specific flaw that leads to their own misery, their failure in an endeavor, or even to their own demise. This theme is...
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Posted by emaitlan on October 23, 2003 at 04:47 AM
Ghost Stories: The Turn of the Screw and Wuthering Heights
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Eric Davich
Both The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James and Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë; have scenes involving ghosts of the dead. These ghosts in each novel affect the narrator differently. In The Turn of the Screw, the reader questions whether or not the ghosts actually exists or if they...
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Posted by edavich on October 23, 2003 at 03:14 AM
Ghostly Purpose
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Matthew Roy
In both Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights and Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw, the appearance of ghosts and spirits is ever-present throughout the novels. However, Bronte and James present these scenes to the reader in such a way that the existence of the ghosts remains ambiguous and the...
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Posted by mroy on October 23, 2003 at 03:13 AM
Spirit Skepticism
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Alex Krippner
Novelists Henry James and Emily Bronte have both created worlds in which spirits roam. In their respective novels The Turn of the Screw and Wuthering Heights, these authors create settings, situations, characters, and most importantly, narrators that lead the reader to question the reality of the apparitions. James and...
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Posted by kkrippne on October 23, 2003 at 03:00 AM
Ghostly Credibility: how the trust between a narrator and reader can be strained or strengthened by an author's approach to depicting otherworldly spirits.
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Jeb Bobseine
Both Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte, and The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James are littered with ghostly appearances. In The Turn of the Screw, the governess’s response to and interpretation of otherworldly spirits undermines her reliability. Henry James constructs a narrative dependent on the reader=s willingness to believe...
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Posted by jbobsein on October 23, 2003 at 02:02 AM
The Blight of Literacy on the Victorian Household
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Dan Herzberg
Within both The Turn of the Screw and Wuthering Heights, there exists a clearly defined social order. In Turn of the Screw the governess is at the top of the social hierarchy (due to her master’s absence) as she is responsible for raising the two children. Equally, Miles and Flora,...
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Posted by dherzber on October 23, 2003 at 02:00 AM
RESPECT, find out what it can mean for you
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Torri Parker
All men are created equal. Is this statement really true? When you think about it, look at the innocent children who are born into poverty stricken families everyday. Will they really be held as equal against their counterparts born into wealth and fame? An assumption about this statement can...
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Posted by cparker on October 23, 2003 at 01:51 AM
Contested Domination and Irresolute Love Affairs
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Monica Ruzicka
Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw and Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights explore the boundaries and limitations of framing and restaging. The implications of these repetitive incidences establish relationships between characters in such a way that they are better understood through their connections rather than in their solitude. Both James...
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Posted by mruzicka on October 23, 2003 at 01:23 AM
Credibility in Narration
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Ryan Hurd
The narration done by the characters in Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw and Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights is effective yet questionable. There are several aspects about the characters that entice the reader to ask, “why is this narrator believable?” For example, in The Turn of the Screw,...
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Posted by rhurd on October 23, 2003 at 01:11 AM
Silences Can Provide More, Silences Can Provide Less
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Ged Wieschhoff
An entertaining novel does not answer all of its readers’ questions. If it did, its readers would only be passive observers of the story, not participants. Literary audiences enjoy being challenged and forced to think. Emily Bronte and Henry James, both aware of the power of silences within a...
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Posted by gwieschh on October 23, 2003 at 12:30 AM
Character Definition Through Character Repetition
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Chris Johnson
What a person wants, their goals and the motives behind what they do, can define the type of person a character in a story is. However, since questions of character definition often cannot be answered clearly with a mere description of character activity, such descriptions are often supplemented by other...
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Posted by cjohnso2 on October 23, 2003 at 12:04 AM
Nelly and the Governess: Passive Victims of Social Class Injustice?
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Nicole Colucci
Class conflict is evident in both Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights and Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw. Class structure is upheld in Wuthering Heights as characters generally conform to societal checks, illustrated, for example, by Catherine’s decision to marry Edgar for social eminence. Conversely, the social structure in...
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Posted by ncolucci on October 22, 2003 at 11:54 PM
Enhancing Accounts Through Layers of Frames
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Sophie Wiss
Frames are employed in literature for various purposes. They have the ability to enhance not only the structure of the narrative, but the plot of a story as well. They can serve to develop a specific point of view as well as augment a specific character’s role in the account....
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Posted by swiss on October 22, 2003 at 11:39 PM
A False Sense of Security
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Britta Bene
Throughout literature, we often experience characters that manipulate, defraud, and deviously woo people into a false sense of security. These characters, like Heathcliff in Emily Bronte’s novel Wuthering Heights, use illusions and cunning to lead their counterparts into despondency during their relentless quest for ultimate satisfaction. Heathcliff, an extremely...
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Posted by bbene on October 22, 2003 at 11:32 PM
“The Presence of Ghosts Through the Eyes of a Cast and a Solo”
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Emily Hubbard
It may seem throughout Wuthering Heights that Nelly is a more credible narrator than the governess but Nelly’s trustworthiness is greatly abetted by the presence of other characters’ dialect and supporting narrators. In both of the novels Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw and Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights...
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Posted by ehubbard on October 22, 2003 at 11:00 PM
social classes and narration
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Erica Michel
Erica Michel Intro to Narrative October 23, 2003 Social Classes and Narration In nineteenth century England two authors, Henry James and Emily Bronte, wrote captivating tales of unrestful spirits who haunt and disturb the living. James and Bronte use first person participant narrators for their stories, and both Henry James’s...
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Posted by emichel on October 22, 2003 at 10:29 PM
Social Calls
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Merrie Railsback
On the surface, The Turn of the Screw by Henry James and Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte seem to be very different novels. While one is the story of a lonely Governess being haunted, the other is the story of a passionate love affair that lives on through generations. A...
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Posted by mrailsba on October 22, 2003 at 10:26 PM
Crossing Social Boundaries and the Formation of a Reliable Narrator
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Katie Mitterling
In a novel, the narrator holds the secret to the storyline—the plot twists and secret identities—and the manner in which this is conveyed greatly alters the narrator's perceived reliability. In Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, the story is narrated by a female...
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Posted by kmitterl on October 22, 2003 at 10:21 PM
Gaps in Narration
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Alix Roy
Throughout history there have been unavoidable social gaps caused by money, property, and ancestral ties. In the 19th century when novels such as Turn of the Screw and Wuthering Heights were written, a class system was still very much in effect. Servants, large estates, and livestock were considered symbols...
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Posted by aroy on October 22, 2003 at 10:04 PM
Subjective Objectivity, Objective Subjectivity
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Frank Chi
The intricacies of the Victorian novel are often conveyed through the tone of the narrator. Whether it be the intensity, attitude or depth of the book, it is the narrator’s role that provides the reader with the intended message. In Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw and Emily Brontë’s...
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Posted by fchi on October 22, 2003 at 09:54 PM
The Lucid Bronte vs. the Elusive James
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Niki Alvarez
Writers Emily Bronte and Henry James are inarguably two of literature’s most amazing writers. Bronte’s Wuthering Heights is one of the best tragic love stories known to mankind, and James’ The Turn of the Screw upholds its reputation as an amazing ghost story. These two novels are rich with...
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Posted by nalvarez on October 22, 2003 at 09:24 PM
Character Manipulations
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Emily Sheffield
The novels Wuthering Heights and The Turn of the Screw tell the convoluted tales of households torn apart by the manipulative actions of a pair of troubled individuals. In The Turn of the Screw, author Henry James frames his story around siblings Miles and Flora. The children are able to...
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Posted by esheffie on October 22, 2003 at 09:22 PM
Narrations Altered by Social Differences
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Kelsey Hughes
In both Wuthering Heights and The Turn of the Screw, the narrator’s image of events is skewed. The social gaps between characters in each novel contribute to the biased image seen by the narrators. The two narrators, Nelly and the governess, deal with social injustices and classes in different...
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Posted by khughes2 on October 22, 2003 at 09:22 PM
A Gothic Blanket and a Gothic Fog
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Jade Dunn
The presence of ghosts is not a rarity within gothic narratives of the Victorian era. As a pair, both The Turn of the Screw and Wuthering Heights meet the generalized, literary standards of gothic narration; however, these gothic distinctions serve drastically different purposes in each novel. Henry James has...
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Posted by jdunn2 on October 22, 2003 at 09:14 PM
Through The Windows...
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Meghan Gillis
While Henry James’ Turn of the Screw and Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights provide readers with different writing styles, storylines and conclusions, these two novels contain similarities. Of particular interest is the authors’ use of windows. Each author chooses to use windows as an aid in the structural development of...
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Posted by mgillis on October 22, 2003 at 08:35 PM
Repetitive Repetitions
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Jason Lewis
Henry James and Emily Brontë, authors of The Turn of the Screw and Wuthering Heights respectively, use a variety of narrative techniques throughout the course of their novels, which continuously add to the various themes of their respective stories. One of the more interesting techniques of The Turn of...
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Posted by jlewis2 on October 22, 2003 at 07:48 PM
Social Gaps and Plot Holes - The Effects of Social Class on Narrative Style
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Molly McCarter
Nelly and the Governess have been framed by their social class- they are expected to act in a certain, pre-defined way that is appropriate to their position in life. The profound impact this external pressure has had on their lives is echoed in their narratives. It is up to...
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Posted by mmccarte on October 22, 2003 at 07:34 PM
Social Class and Credibility
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Kira Chappelle
In both Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, social class defines the narrators’ roles in the novels and inevitably influences their telling of the stories. Both narrators in the novels are members of the lower classes and, by definition, lack power and opportunity,...
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Posted by kchappel on October 22, 2003 at 07:28 PM
Ghosts in the Attic: The Use of the Supernatural in The Turn of the Screw and Wuthering Heights
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Andrew Morrison
One can draw several parallels between Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, from a fondness of repetition in their storytelling and a marked interest in the interactions of social classes to the use of literary and physical framing. Although, after reading both works,...
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Posted by amorriso on October 22, 2003 at 06:54 PM
Ghosts of Truth
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Tasha Graff
Novels take readers to another world. A reader’s journey to an unknown, but similar world to his/her own is much like a characters journey to the end of a book. Both readers and characters are confronted with surprising situations; at times, a reader knows more about certain consequences of...
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Posted by tgraff on October 22, 2003 at 04:22 PM
Ghosts of the Past
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Dan Yingst
The genre of the gothic novel, of which Wuthering Heights and The Turn of the Screw are both examples, is replete with images of the supernatural. While the influence of the supernatural is much more overt in James’s novel, the spirits of the past in Wuthering Heights exert just...
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Posted by dyingst on October 22, 2003 at 03:35 PM
Good Intentions
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Taneisha Wilson
In Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw and Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights the reader is presented with complex narrations that shape the readers understanding of the actions performed by the characters. In both novels the narrator is presented as somewhat untrustworthy and the reader is not entirely sure...
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Posted by twilson on October 22, 2003 at 11:44 AM