quotes Flashcards
“last night…
“last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again”
- Gothic idea of strange dreams, visions and omens
- theme of absence and change
- establishes Manderley as central to the narrative
“there was a…”
“crowded and…”
“the gnarled roots looked like…”
“there was a padlock and chain”
“crowded and dark and uncontrolled”
“the gnarled roots looked like skeleton claws”
- conventional gothic language
- unwelcoming
- theme of secrecy, mystery, foreboding and foreshadowing sense of doom
- pathetic fallacy, the place is like a character
“the rhododendrons stood…”
“they had entered into…
“the rhododendrons stood fifty feet high”
“they had entered into an alien marriage with a host of nameless shrubs, poor, bastard things”
- rhododendrons symbolic of rebecca, R+M marriage ‘alien’
- rebecca’s promiscuity ‘host of nameless shrubs’
- rebecca’s confidence and power ‘stood fift feet high’
“I could swear that the house…’
“i could swear that the house was not an empty shell but lived and breathed as it had lived before”
- house personified with breath, like a living character
- link to hitchcock’s quote
hitchcocks quote about manderley
“Rebecca is the story of two women a man and a house”
“Manderley is the most dominant presence”
“we can never go…’
“we can never go back again, that much is certain”
- love and relationships changing
“no clash of thought or opinion…”
“no clash of thought or opinion makes a barrier between us”
- compatability
- N as angel in the house
“like a shy,…”
“like a shy, uneasy colt”
- baby horse, youth and innocence
- power dynamics
“he looks ill doesnt he?….”
“he looks ill doesnt he? they say he cant get over his wife’s death”
- mystery and secrecy
Maxim “belonged to a walled…”
“belonged to a walled city of the fifteenth century”
“medieval”
- romanticisation of maxim - unreliable narrator
- class, high status
