Quotes About Turn Of The Screw

The most terrifying thing I ever saw in a cinema, thanks to the carefully built-up drama, was in the ancient black-and-white film 'The Innocents,' based on Henry James's 'The Turn Of The Screw.' My skin actually crawled with horror.

If the child gives the effect another turn of the screw, what do you say to TWO children—? We

If the child gives the effect another turn of the screw, what do you say to two children—?

If the child gives the effect another turn of the screw, what do you say to TWO children—? We say, of course, somebody exclaimed, that they give two turns! Also that we want to hear about them.

The Turn of the Screw" has been turned and returned through a large number of critical approaches, perhaps only rivaled in this regard by Hamlet. The spectrum of critical approaches ranges from Freudian, to feminist, to gay, to materialist, partly because the complexity of the first-person narrative lends itself to analysis and partly because the tale also offers an engaging twist on the traditional genre of the ghost story.

It did not take atomic weapons to make man want peace, a peace that would last. But the atomic bomb was the turn of the screw. It has made the prospect of future war unendurable.