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        <title><![CDATA[Rebecca is symbolic of evil. The face she portrays to the world is very...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Rebecca is symbolic of evil. The face she portrays to the world is very different from her real self. She shows her evil side only to her husband, flaunting her affairs and misdeeds to his face. Manderley, the house that Rebecca created, is also representative of evil, and in the end, this evil is burned to the ground. Happy Valley still stands, however, representing that good wins out over evil. Happy Valley is considered a paradise that Max...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:05:12 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[There are numerous symbols in &quot;Rebecca,&quot; but one of the more...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[There are numerous symbols in &quot;Rebecca,&quot; but one of the more striking ones is the costume that Mrs. de Winter wears to the costume ball. She wears it to show her position in the house, and as a kind of homage to Caroline de Winter, who wore it in the portrait. However, when she wears it to the party, she finds that Rebecca wore it. The costume therefore becomes a symbol of the gap between appearance and reality, of how little she...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:57:18 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is a symbol in &quot;Rebecca&quot;?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is a symbol in &quot;Rebecca&quot;?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:13:55 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The main character of Rebecca is not awarded a name because she walks in...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The main character of Rebecca is not awarded a name because she walks in the shadow of Rebecca's ghost; this fact, alone, points to her position as an outsider, even in her marriage and new home.  Before she meets DeWinters and because she has no family upon which to rely, she finds herself having to serve as a despised companion to a tyrannical mistress who treats her like a cipher.  Because of the great difference in their ages,...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:04:20 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I'm going to treat Mrs. de Winter as the main character for the purpose...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I'm going to treat Mrs. de Winter as the main character for the purpose of this discussion. (It's possible to interpret things differently.) Mrs. de Winter  is alienated from her very name, as she's not called by it through a portion of the book. She is alienated from her family, because her parents died. In traveling with an American in France, she is part of a literally alienated party (not in home country). She's alienated from her...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:53:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How does the main character in "Rebecca" struggle with alienation?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How does the main character in &quot;Rebecca&quot; struggle with alienation?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:00:12 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What chapter are you talking about?  The first one?  If so, there is a...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What chapter are you talking about?  The first one?  If so, there is a sense that they are very reclusive: they take their dinner in the hotel room (like a sick person might, and as Mrs. Van Hopper did), they leave friends early, and there is a sense of impermanence in their life.  The narrator speaks with fragility about her husband, saying that he would rather read the news of England in newspapers than actually experience it himself.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:31:54 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[You know, the first time I read the book it didn't even occur to me that...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[You know, the first time I read the book it didn't even occur to me that Mrs. de Winter didn't have a first name. I think the fact that it is written in the first person makes it less likely that do hear a name. How many of us ever say our own names in regular conversation?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 9 Aug 2008 11:40:33 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The second Mrs. de Winter]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Why does Daphne du Maurier never give the latest Mrs. de Winter a name? She is one of the very few characters in Western literature to have no name. What is the effect on the reader, to never know this important character's name? Does the fact that she has no name make her unimportant, or does her anonymity make her stand out in your mind?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 8 Aug 2008 20:11:40 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Importance of Manderley]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The beautiful estate of Manderley is a character of its very own, and it has importance for Maxim and for his bride, the latest Mrs. de Winter. They each see Manderley very differently at first. How do you think their perspectives on Manderley change through the book? Are they happy to be there? Do you think they should have stayed away? Why does Maxim bring his bride back to Manderley, and how does being at Manderley change her?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 8 Aug 2008 20:05:18 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This is ultimately a story of perception, both the perception of the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This is ultimately a story of perception, both the perception of the readers and the perception of the characters themselves.  It matters not what the truth is - what matters is what we ourselves believe.  That is what controls our behavior.  De Maurier cleverly puts us into the narrator's position - by being unnamed, it is easier for the reader to actually BE her, and to be experiencing things as she does.  We go in, like she does,...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:55:45 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Rebecca is one of my favorite novels.  It is unusual because the reader...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Rebecca is one of my favorite novels.  It is unusual because the reader never really knows the name of the narrator who is the main character in the story.  It is a story of gothic intrigue and love.  The narrator, originally a poor young woman working as a companion to a wealthy older lady, tells the story as a flashback.   The narrator met her current husband Maxim de Winter while travelling as a companion for a Mrs. Van Hopper.  The...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:41:20 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the overall story in this novel, &quot;Rebecca&quot;?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the overall story in this novel, &quot;Rebecca&quot;?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:11:21 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The most important characters in this novel would be Maxim de Winter,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The most important characters in this novel would be Maxim de Winter, Mrs. de Winter, Rebecca de Winter, Mrs. Danvers, and Frank Crawley.Maximilian (Maxim) de Winter is the owner of Manderley.  He is moody, mysterious, friendly, sometimes detached, and at times he is gracious.Mrs. de Winter, Maxim's young wife, is the narrator.  She is shy, sensitive, insecure, and deeply in love with Maxim.  Puzzled by Maxim's strange shifts of mood and by...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:53:32 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Who are the important characters in the novel, Rebecca and what are...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Who are the important characters in the novel, Rebecca and what are their characteristics?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:13:09 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[no, in the book the narrarator and Maxim first meet when her employer...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[no, in the book the narrarator and Maxim first meet when her employer trys to befriends maxim at the hotels (monte carlo or something like that) restaurant- ends up making a big fool of herself really. Then the employer gets the flu and the chick goes down to eat lunch earlier than usual and meets the dude there. She makes a mess-or &quot;upsets&quot;-of the flowers that were on her table and maxim comes to help her and blah blah blah...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:22:49 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The three major themes in Rebecca are loyalty, flesh versus spirit, and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The three major themes in Rebecca are loyalty, flesh versus spirit, and guilt and innocence.LoyaltyLoyalty is seen most clearly in the characters of Frank Crawley, the business manager of Manderlay, and Frith.  Flesh versus SpiritThe narrator's sense of inferiority results from the fact that she is competing with the memory of a dead woman.  There are several reasons she feels she cannot compete with Rebecca, such as her beauty and social...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:04:50 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Aside from loyalty, are there other primary themes &quot;Rebecca&quot;?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Aside from loyalty, are there other primary themes &quot;Rebecca&quot;?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:04:29 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Difference between film/book: In the film the narrator and Maxim meet at...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Difference between film/book: In the film the narrator and Maxim meet at the cliffs in the beginning. Does this happen in they same way in the book? ]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[A Byronic hero, so called because of the writing of Lord Byron, has...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A Byronic hero, so called because of the writing of Lord Byron, has several characteristics, including a dark, mysterious nature. He is often a loner or isolated from society. He can be moody, and he is usually very intellectual. The writer of &quot;The Gothic Tradition of Daphne du Marier&quot; describes the Byronic hero as having a &quot;charming, handsome appearance [that] causes women to fall in love with him without realizing the hidden...]]></description>
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