... and physically. Does the fact that the governess is exhausted because the children are sneaking around at night contribute to her idea that the estate at Bly is haunted? Edmund Wilson makes a convincing argument regarding the Freudian theory when he writes in "The Ambiguity of Henry James", "Observe, also, from the Freudian point of view, the significance of ... the governess's interest in the little girl's pieces of wood and of the fact that the male apparition first appears on a tower and the female apparition on a lake." Wilson (171). The sexual inferences in this scene can be viewed...

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... got into trouble with the police he left Germany to America which he learned English and became a political figure there in favor of the Republicans. "He worked alongside Sen. Henry Wilson against the Know-Nothing Party, and later campaigned across America for Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln therefore appointed him ambassador to Spain-. During this revolution many Germans fled to America in hope ... ...

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