Miles seems to be disciplined and tries to please the housekeeper as much as possible. Undecided about its disturbingly empty nature, the housekeeper remains on guard. What worries Mrs. Grose is that the housekeeper spends a lot of time observing Miles, instead of educating Flora. It is out of place for a housekeeper to be associated with the young master. There are elements of pedophilia in the relationship between the housekeeper and Mile, in chapter 11 James writes “he leaned forward and kissed me. It was pretty much the end of everything” (46). She goes to Miles' room and sits on his bed in the middle of the night, even hugging him. Miles is corrupted by sexuality, lacking childlike innocence and a frank approach to forbidden intimacy. The reason why he was sent home from school would be linked to the ambiguous letter announcing Miles' expulsion from school. This is a strange mix of attraction and repulsion between Miles and the housekeeper's sexuality. One of the most challenging ideas in The Turn of the Screw is whether the ghosts are real or the housekeeper's pure imagination. As disturbing as ghosts appear, the real fear is what society feared. Each of the relationships between the characters indicates the violation of social class and hidden sexuality. With examples of pedophilic activity, relationships developing between people of different social classes and children corrupted by adultery, the narrative focuses on dark themes. The inequality of social classes is emphasized through the characters’
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