... exertion of his influence on the governess has several effects; the governess assumes that the master has faith in her judgements and that leaves all commitment to her decisions. This ambiguity caused by the uncles orders is interpreted by the governess as meaning that under no circumstances whatsoever she is allowed to contact him which of course puts an immense pressure ... indeed shows traits of sexual hysteria and strong class-consciousness and that she can in part be held responsible for the tragedy that unfolds during the story. The sources of ambiguity in The Turn of the Screw gi...

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... it is definitely realistic though neither Wilson in the story, nor the readers reading this will ever know the true significance of Margot's impulse decision to shoot the bull. The ambiguity of the ending is a signifying feature of the form in modern writing. James Joyce, an Irish born modernist writer is an extremely sufficient example of exploiting the morbidity in the ... of the real life aspects in the novel despite how straight forward and dry it can be. Contrary to Writers like Kafka, Hemingway, and James, there is no aspect of ambiguity in Joyce's collection of short stories in D...

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... 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 ... ...

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