Rebecca

Question 1

marriage proposal

Answer 1

chapter 6

Question 2

ball

Answer 2

chapter 16

Question 3

maxims confession

Answer 3

chapter 19/20

Question 4

danvers obsession with rebecca

Answer 4

chapter 14

Question 5

favell blames maxim

Answer 5

chapter 23

Question 6

context

Answer 6

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’

Question 7

Manderley

Answer 7

embodiment of the past

maxim’s memories

engulfed in flames when narrator and maxim are ready to forget maxims past (irony)

Question 8

the white dress

Answer 8

symbolises Mrs Danvers cruel intentions

also subtle hint at social and gender roles in rebecca as narrator wants to fit in so imitates rebecca

Question 9

rebeccas boat

Answer 9

‘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

Question 10

rebeccas intentions revealed

Answer 10

412
420
-she wanted me to kill her

Question 11

belonging

Answer 11

he did not belong to me at all, he belonged to rebecca