ENGLISH QUOTES- Memory and the past

Question 1

Identical. The same picture, the same dress, you stood there on the stairs, and for one ghastly moment I thought…

Answer 1

Truncated sentence
-places emphasis on this uncanny moment where it seems Rebecca has risen from the dead and is standing on the stairs.
-This evokes the gothic convention of doubling which suggests the duality humankind and therefore women too.

Question 2

The scent is still fresh… I could feel her everywhere

Answer 2

Tactile imagery
- suggests the sadistic pleasure Mrs Danvers feels in conjuring the sensory and physical presence of Rebecca forcing the Narrator to feel Rebecca
-ritualistic tactile experience the narrator has with Rebecca enhances the gothic convention of the sublime demonstrating how REbecca is both alluring and repulsive

Question 3

i wanted to run away, but I could not move

Answer 3

Imagery of imprisonment
-enhanced through Mrs Danvers contribution to the growing sense of claustrophobia in the room -creates narrators feelings of imprisonment in Rebecca’s past
-Growing sense of imprisonment is heightened by the Gothic setting of Manderley creating a sense of inescapability