Beauty And Symbols In Jane Austen's Rebecca

When you think of flowers what to do you think of? Delicacy? Beauty? Though these things may be true, what you don’t think of are the thorns of the stems or the way the petals get crumpled and discolored when they die. The overall idea of flowers may be delighting, however if you look closer you are able to see what there truly is. In the story Rebecca a highly used symbol is the rhododendron and azaleas flowers. The flowers first get introduced when the narrator describes Manderley, “These were monsters,rearing into the sky, massed like a battalion, too beautiful I thought, too powerful; they were not like plants at all.” (ch. 7). Perhaps these flowers weren’t just used to describe Manderley. In other words the narrator often says how