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In my opinion, Henry Jamess work The Turn of The Screw and William Faulkners As I Lay Dying have different qualities in terms of structure though having very few similarities.

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  • Submitted: 18/04/2010
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International Baccalaureate World Literature

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In my opinion, Henry James's work The Turn of The Screw and William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying have different qualities in terms of structure though having very few similarities. By using complicated technique stream of consciousness, Faulkner provides reader with different perspectives, he puts reader into the story and you no longer feel yourself as someone reading book. Instead of being a reader, you sense that you are in the book thanks to Faulkner's realism and his modernist approach. Briefly Faulkner's technique makes story complicated in terms of understanding. However, Henry James is not as difficult to understand as William Faulkner. It does not mean that reader can easily grasp the point in his work The Turn of The Screw. Using ambiguous sentences, he gives interpretation to his reader, from that point it could be said Henry James also force reader to be in the story thanks to his ambiguous, unclear expressions. Yet The Turn of The Screw is different from As I Lay Dying, first of all in James's work we do not have that many different character and difficult structure as in Faulkner's work. In the Turn of The Screw, story starts with an unknown narrator whose

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