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The Governess In Peter Quint's Turn Of The Screw

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In Turn of the Screw the women in the story must follow a specific role. The governess was an important person. Her role as a Victorian female was to symbolize sexual innocence. The governess developed sexual feeling towards Miles a young boy that she is to be watching for the man she thinks is so handsome. Peter Quint and Miss Jessel symbolizes the ¨wickedness¨ that lives within sexual desires. Peter Quint was a very sexual person with all the females. When the governess sees Quint and Jessel that´s when she started realizing her own sexual thoughts and desires. She sees that Miles was going to become a man just like Quint ...a sexual freak and didn't want that of such innocent boy. The governess could not show her sexual feelings. She doesn't

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