This technique builds a relationship between Jane and the reader despite knowing these events happened. Secrets in real life …show more content…
For instance his stint outside (201). Miles knows how to prey on the governess’s innocence. For instance, his charm (“[a] wonderful smile” 204) has the governess hypnotised by his features that her subconscious tries to remain in control (“Would he tell me why?”). Miles gives the governess a “strange impulse that [she identifies as her] temptation” (200). Her sexuality awakens at Bly because Miles develops a secret relationship with her (“well—so we’re alone” 252) / (”oh you know what a boy wants” 227) with the intention to entice her. There is much debate and secrecy around Miles and Peter Quint’s …show more content…
Which may establish that his death is not an accident at all? As we are told Quint was in charge of the children and Miles, as the older child, “[he]would remember… [he]would know” (176) this gives evidence to relate this to Miles’s exclusion from school as he, “said things” (259). Although Miles’s dialogue here is ambiguous, it is easy to consider that the events at Bly with Peter Quint is what has him expelled because it was “too bad” (260).
As the governess sought the truth from Miles's burning the letter to her uncle reads the account of what is happening at Bly. Therefore, he preys on the governess’s paranoia (“is [Miss Jessel] here?”) to avoid revealing his secrets. When Miles summons Peter Quint (“Peter Quint – you devil!” 261) the governess is remarkably unable to see him. Yet her protecting Miles has her suffocate him which now gives “Miles…his freedom now; [as the governess] was never to touch [him] again”