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What happened to Rebecca, the first Mrs. De Winter, is all important to...

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 17:23:17 PST

What happened to Rebecca, the first Mrs. De Winter, is all important to the narrator's fate in the novel. Although Rebecca is dead, her faithful housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers, remains and makes life torturous for the narrator. What Mrs. Danvers and others say about Rebecca cause the narrator to doubt her husband's love, her own sanity, and drains her confidence (what little she had in the first place). Even at the novel's end, it is not until...

How do the past events of Rebecca in the novel Rebecca by Daphne Du...

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:58:14 PST

How do the past events of Rebecca in the novel Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier affect the narrator throughout the whole book?

Both of these quotes are references to the story of the crucifixion of...

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 13:34:58 PST

Both of these quotes are references to the story of the crucifixion of Jesus in the New Testament. The first of the two -- about the crowing of the cock refers to a story in which Jesus foretells that his most trusted disciple, Peter, will betray him three times before the a rooster crows two times. Peter denies that he will, but ends up doing it. The second quote (I believe you mean the kiss of Judas, not Judah) refers to the part of the...

In Rebecca what are the sources/meanings of "A denial heralded thrice...

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 13:30:22 PST

In Rebecca what are the sources/meanings of "A denial heralded thrice the crowing of the cock" and "an insincerity was like the kiss of Judah"?

Actually there are many situations where women do not have a personal...

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:47:01 PST

Actually there are many situations where women do not have a personal name in literature, for example the narrator of The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. We often assume a woman has a name when actually her identity is given only through her title and her married name. I am sure that Du Maurier was emphasising the fact that the narrator is impressionable and destined to 'become' whomever society moulds her to be. Her title of...

In my opinion, the fact that she remains nameless enforces her...

Fri, 9 Oct 2009 02:21:37 PST

In my opinion, the fact that she remains nameless enforces her insignificance and inferiority in comparsion to Rebecca. The fact that she is only referred to as 'Mrs De Winter' also builds up the link between herself and Rebecca... almost as if her likeness to Rebecca is increasing as the novel progresses.

I think she remains unnamed as to emphasize that she is an "intruder" in...

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 08:33:27 PST

I think she remains unnamed as to emphasize that she is an "intruder" in Rebecca's place. It is easier to convey that someone is taking another person's place if we are not given that person's name. For example the protagonist is always talking about how it's Rebecca's chair, Rebecca's coat that the items cannot be then called oh this is now susan's chair... it shows Rebecca's lingering presence haunting manderly

What is a motif throughout the book or at least in chapter 1?

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:55:44 PST

What is a motif throughout the book or at least in chapter 1?

I assume you are referring to the second Mrs. DeWinter (who is never...

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:27:50 PST

I assume you are referring to the second Mrs. DeWinter (who is never given a name in the book...did you notice that?). A "pinnacle moment" is simply a high point, or important moment. For our unnamed heroine, her first pinnacle moment comes in her whirlwind courtship and marriage to Max DeWinter. She is suddenly liberated from her life as a "companion" to the overbearing Mrs. Van Hopper and feels, for the first time, desired as a woman. The...

What would you say are the "pinnacle moments" for Ms. De Winters?

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:04:21 PST

What would you say are the "pinnacle moments" for Ms. De Winters?

I think it has more to do with emphasizing how she feels less important...

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:50:35 PST

I think it has more to do with emphasizing how she feels less important that Rebecca...

What is the plot pyramid for the book Rebecca?

Sun, 2 Aug 2009 15:32:55 PST

What is the plot pyramid for the book Rebecca?

"Her curiousity was a disease, almost a mania." pg. 12

Wed, 27 May 2009 18:28:05 PST

"Her curiousity was a disease, almost a mania." pg. 12

What are some metaphors in the book Rebecca?

Sun, 17 May 2009 09:24:31 PST

What are some metaphors in the book Rebecca?

A symbol in this selection is the house it symbolizes Rebecca because...

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:39:42 PST

A symbol in this selection is the house it symbolizes Rebecca because of all the Evil that has happened there but yet it’s beautiful like Rebecca was ,Beautiful but evil.

with some minor variations, rebecca is essentially a re-write of jane...

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:58:30 PST

with some minor variations, rebecca is essentially a re-write of jane eyre. genteel but poor naive young girl/ orphan with fine sensibilities falls in love with/marries upper class self confident, wealthy autocratic older man with evil/mad, former wife who has a sinister 'keeper/servant' . in my view the first wife/keeper relationship is the story that haunts the text throughout. what makes grace poole a drunk and danvers a whack job?...

Rebecca character analysis pre-writing

}JUst though I'd add this for anyone interested: The Oedipus complex is...

Mon, 8 Sep 2008 14:15:00 PST

}JUst though I'd add this for anyone interested: The Oedipus complex is a psychological theory developed by Freud that suggests that boys have a strong desire to kill their father and marry their mother. When the genders are reversed its named the Electra complex. }Named after a character in Greek drama who connived in the murder of her mother. This plays out in Rebecca, as the heroine finds that she needs to overcome a maternal figure in...

Ah i found a Freudian theory in Rebecca but nothing for the other 2, any...

Mon, 8 Sep 2008 14:10:24 PST

Ah i found a Freudian theory in Rebecca but nothing for the other 2, any ideas?

What are the Marxist, Femenist and Freudian approaches to Rebecca?

Mon, 8 Sep 2008 12:53:06 PST

Can anyone tell me I have to put this in for a presentation and i'm totally stumped...