For as long as recorded history, people have been trying to prove and disprove theories on humans' afterlife. Most believe that the dead spirits go either to exquisite heaven or to the depths of hell. The novel Turn of the Screw by Henry James challenges your beliefs about ghosts and your life after death. During the novel, the reader can interpret the book in various ways depending on whether or not you choose to believe in the spirit world coinciding with the world of the living. As the plot starts meandering on an unmarked road, it soon splits into a fork between believing that ghosts are haunting Bly or that the governess, whose name remains mysteriously unknown, is mad. The most logical explanation was that the governess did not, in fact, see a ghost at all.
             The story unfolds at the gloomy castle of Bly buried deep within the barrens of Britain. As depicted in the book, the castle and the grounds on which the story took place were actually quite beautiful, although there seemed to be a sense that queer things could happen. From the beginning, this mentality allowed every odd incident to turn into a larger ordeal. Also, because the governess was raised in a vicarage, she had never really been exposed to the world and had a complete innocence about her. The beliefs taught to her there also contributed to how she dealt with the happenings at Bly. From her teachings, she believed completely in ghosts and spirits and a "good" and an "evil." Since she was trained like this, she automatically began looking for ways to incorporate these ideas in her life, Bly being the perfect place. Also, her innocence takes a role in her secret infatuation with the master and her employer. When she envisions the so-called ghost on top of the tower while taking her stroll, he just so happened to be dressed in the master's rather baggy clothing. Could it then be possible she was fantasizing about a substitute for the man she felt so passionately for...