The Turn of the Screw, Chapter 12 summary
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In Chapter 12, the governess tells Mrs. Grose that the children secretly communicate with the dead and face destruction, treating their good behavior as evidence of deception. When Mrs. Grose proposes asking their uncle for help, the governess refuses and threatens to leave if Mrs. Grose contacts him on her behalf.
What happens
- The governess presents Miles’s remark and the children’s silence as evidence of secret contact with their dead companions.
- She reinterprets the children’s beauty and goodness as a deceptive cover for a separate, hidden life.
- She claims Quint and the woman seek to corrupt the children and draw them into fatal danger.
- Mrs. Grose proposes that the children’s uncle intervene and take them away.
- Fearing his ridicule and contempt, the governess threatens to leave if Mrs. Grose appeals to him for her.
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