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Appearances
Characters in The Turn of the Screw are basically judged entirely on their physical appearances – sweeping speculations are often made based simply on how people look. Hmm. Seem problematic?
Don't worry, Henry James also recognizes that judging people in this fashion is not exactly the best way to go through life. The story largely revolves around questions of appearance, representation, and truth, and even if we don't emerge with any other great understanding of these things, we can be confident in saying that things aren't always as they seem.
The greatest mistake made in The Turn of the Screw is the equation of outer beauty with inner purity.
The dangerously spellbinding quality of the children's beauty can be considered to be one of the story's supernatural elements.
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