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In this 4 page essay, comparisons are made concerning depictions of culture and power (as they relate to gender and feminity) in 'Turn Of The Screw' and 'The Mask.' The first of these suggests that a man can also be the object of a mastering look and that the association of that position with the woman is conventional. The latter work illustrates harsh conditions under which Japanese women had to live in their own society and relevant comparisons are made. No other sources are cited.
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The authors illustrative anecdotes and point comprise a book that makes us almost feel empathetic towards the female characters while all the while learning more about Japanese culture. But
as much as we learn about Eastern ways, we also indirectly learn much about the similarities and differences of our own culture when studying a story such as Henry James
"Turn of the Screw." Both James and Enchis story seem to have many dissimilarities yet, at the same time-- they share so many things in common
as well. I admired Enchi most for atmosphere of horror and spirit-possession that The Mask. Simply put, she weaves a grim tapestry of the sorry fate of Japanese
women. Henry James did that in much more in his "Turn of the Screw." Each book was a psychologically horrific culture depicting disparate cultures in markedly similar ways. But
in my opinion, Henry James delved much deeper into the subject. For that reason, I shall concentrate mostly on his work for this analysis. Turn of the
Screw is, for all practical purposes, a text whose explorations of the visual dimensions of power, pleasure, and self-definition have already basically been discussed in the above comparison with
Enchis The Mask. The governesss crisis, as I read it, arises in her struggle to define herself (as we all must) in terms of the gaze--the interplay of her own
look with that of others, both real and imagined. She does not seem as oppressed as Enchis women-- although she probably felt very much the same way about her social
position. Part of the governess struggle involves a certain ambiguity about which side of the gaze the proper middle-class woman is supposed to be on. In The Mask women struggle
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