Rebecca Flashcards
marriage proposal
chapter 6
ball
chapter 16
maxims confession
chapter 19/20
danvers obsession with rebecca
chapter 14
favell blames maxim
chapter 23
context
1930
comparisons to alice- both young, lost, innocent
gothic- death, women in distress, imprisonment
marriage bar- women stop working once married
unmarried women- spinsters
only identity is husbands name ‘mrs de winter’
Manderley
embodiment of the past
maxim’s memories
engulfed in flames when narrator and maxim are ready to forget maxims past (irony)
the white dress
symbolises Mrs Danvers cruel intentions
also subtle hint at social and gender roles in rebecca as narrator wants to fit in so imitates rebecca
rebeccas boat
‘je reviens’ ill return
boat returns to maxim’s life with vengeance
renewed investigation of rebeccas death
boat= symbol of the power of memory and past
rebeccas intentions revealed
412
420
-she wanted me to kill her
belonging
he did not belong to me at all, he belonged to rebecca
