Rebecca
Rebecca
Rebecca has 4 genres within it:
- Gothic: terror, mystery, supernatural, ghosts, haunted houses and Gothic architecture, castles, darkness, death, decay, doubles, madness, secrets and hereditary curses.
- Physiological thriller: characters are reliant on their mental resources, whether it is by battling wits with a formidable opponent or by battling of equilibrium in the character’s own mind.
- Subversion of romance: sets up the conventions of a romantic genre then slowly subvert or undercut/demolishes our expectations.
- Crime: crimes, their detection, criminals, and their motives.
The novel is written first person by the narrator, who is never named within the book, and can be considered an ‘unreliable narrator,’ because …show more content…
There is the continuity of reference back to gothic, but in the last 7 chapters, it is it dominated by more of the crime genre.
Rebecca is dominated by the Gothic genre throughout the whole novel because of the continuous presence of Rebecca and the overshadowing Manderley. Even in the end, seems to have risen from the dead to have her final revenge through Mrs Danvers and the burning of Manderley.
• In the very beginning of the book, the narrator introduces us to Manderley as an empty “inviolate, untouched”, cold “no smoke came from the chimney”, mysterious place “desolate shell, soulless at last, …show more content…
• Unclear as yet but Rebecca’s death a mystery, which seems to affect everyone at Manderley… who was she?
• Narrator feels like she doesn’t belong “This was their routine…long custom” caught in an alien world of tradition.
• Rebecca’s presence in the household still evident makes the narrator feel like an intruder
• Keeping alive the spirit of Rebecca “the room was filled with them” people keep putting more flowers into the room like Rebecca used to
• The irony of how Rebecca who had died a year ago is discovered again right after the Manderley ball “Rebecca, whom they describes as beautiful, talented… having drowned a year ago, and then Maxim marrying again the following spring, bringing is bride straight to Manderley and giving a big fancy dress ball in her honour.. the following morning the body of his first wife being found trapped in the cabin of her sailing boat, at the bottom of the bay.” “Both papers used the same word, ‘ironic’ . Yes, I suppose it was ironic. It made a good
Rebecca has 4 genres within it:
- Gothic: terror, mystery, supernatural, ghosts, haunted houses and Gothic architecture, castles, darkness, death, decay, doubles, madness, secrets and hereditary curses.
- Physiological thriller: characters are reliant on their mental resources, whether it is by battling wits with a formidable opponent or by battling of equilibrium in the character’s own mind.
- Subversion of romance: sets up the conventions of a romantic genre then slowly subvert or undercut/demolishes our expectations.
- Crime: crimes, their detection, criminals, and their motives.
The novel is written first person by the narrator, who is never named within the book, and can be considered an ‘unreliable narrator,’ because …show more content…
There is the continuity of reference back to gothic, but in the last 7 chapters, it is it dominated by more of the crime genre.
Rebecca is dominated by the Gothic genre throughout the whole novel because of the continuous presence of Rebecca and the overshadowing Manderley. Even in the end, seems to have risen from the dead to have her final revenge through Mrs Danvers and the burning of Manderley.
• In the very beginning of the book, the narrator introduces us to Manderley as an empty “inviolate, untouched”, cold “no smoke came from the chimney”, mysterious place “desolate shell, soulless at last, …show more content…
• Unclear as yet but Rebecca’s death a mystery, which seems to affect everyone at Manderley… who was she?
• Narrator feels like she doesn’t belong “This was their routine…long custom” caught in an alien world of tradition.
• Rebecca’s presence in the household still evident makes the narrator feel like an intruder
• Keeping alive the spirit of Rebecca “the room was filled with them” people keep putting more flowers into the room like Rebecca used to
• The irony of how Rebecca who had died a year ago is discovered again right after the Manderley ball “Rebecca, whom they describes as beautiful, talented… having drowned a year ago, and then Maxim marrying again the following spring, bringing is bride straight to Manderley and giving a big fancy dress ball in her honour.. the following morning the body of his first wife being found trapped in the cabin of her sailing boat, at the bottom of the bay.” “Both papers used the same word, ‘ironic’ . Yes, I suppose it was ironic. It made a good