ENGLISH QUOTES- Jealousy and Obsession Flashcards
Dear God i did not want to think about Rebecca… I could not help it if i felt like a guest at Manderley, my home
Apostrophe “Dear God”
-conveys emotional intensity as it calls on god for help because she cannot control her constant thoughts over Rebecca
- her thoughts are so unbearable and inescapable she requires a higher power or else her jealousy assails her
“Max. She called him Max…Max was her choice. The word was her possession… And I had to call him Maxim.”
Repetition of possessive pronoun “her”
-suggests the narrator feels as if she has been demoted
-debilitating sense of inferiority towards Rebecca
-feeding into gothic nature of jealousy and its control over her
In that brier moment i had so identified myself with Rebecca that my own dull self did not exist
Motif of ghostliness
-Creates sense of the supernatural
- she feels possessed by rebecca creating moment of uncanny as she embody’s rebecca
-suggests obsession as she essentially turns herself into rebecca seeking uncomfortable closeness with her
- shows Rebecca’s power and the narrator’s vulnerability as Rebecca becomes a living force heightened by the gothic convention of doubling.
