Rebecca quotes Flashcards
Rebecca’s Power
“We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us …. We have conquered ours or so we believe”
“Go on whispered the demon”
“The letter R was the last to go, it twisted in the flame, it curled outwards for a moment becoming larger than ever”
“That tall sloping R dwarfing its fellows”
“She was dead. She had been dead now for a year”
“He belonged to Rebecca. He still thought about Rebecca. He would never love me because of Rebecca”
Beatrice
Used as a vessel to show how much the narrator stand out - is a strong woman - dominates Giles
“Beatrice was tall broad shouldered very handsome”
Class Differences
“I wished we could have been one with them”
“He was saying this to help me”
“I lack confidence, grace, beauty, intelligence wit”
“They were out of place in that fragile delicate room”
“Paraphernalia of stiff tea”
“Frank gallantly juggled the scones”
“I wished I could lose my own identity and join them”
Disconnection
“He had mistaken my silence for fatigue”
“Run along & make friends w/ Mrs Danvers”
“I’m being like Jasper now leaning against him”
“I could not keep up with him. Nor could I see his face”.
“Playing the perfect host”
“I wish he would not always treat me as a child. I wanted to be his mother”
“He never spoke to me. Never touched me”
“I’m asking you to marry me you little fool”
“Boiled egg” “filing his nails”
Manderley
“The drive twisted & turned as a serpent”
“One either side of us was a wall of colour blood red reaching far above our heads”
“No dark trees here no tangled undergrowth”
“White faces” “bruised & turning brown” - innocence
“The enchantment was no more, the spell was broken”
“blue, monotonous, like spectators lined up in a street to watch us pass”
Rebecca Vs Narrator
“A rhododendron was a homely domestic thing strictly conventional mauve or pink in colour”
“She who had sat here before me had not wasted her time as I was doing”
“You are so very different from Rebecca”
“She is comparing me to Rebecca”
Mrs Danvers
“Tall, gaunt, dressed in deep black whose prominent cheek bones and great hollow eyes gave her a skulls face”
“Unexpected animation with life & meaning & there was a spot of colour on the gaunt cheek bones”
“Like a black sentinel”
Pg 189
“The smile on her face was a false & unnatural thing”
“loathsome. triumphant”
“Why don’t you jump?”
Jealousy
“She simply adored Rebecca”
“He was jealous while she lived & now he’s jealous when she’s dead”
The narrator
“You are a placid thing”
“I lack confidence, grace, beauty, intelligence, wit”
“Like a guilty child”
“False clown look” - “I pinched some colour into my cheeks”
“Invasion of visitors”
“No longer hampered by my appearance”
My own dull personality submerged”
Maxim
“His face was white & his eyes strained & wretched w/ that dark lost look they had when I first met him”
“He was always laughing and gay then”
“Playing the perfect host”
“I’m afraid I must contradict you”
pg 35 poem
“the body of some unknown woman, unclaimed, belonging nowhere”
Rebecca
“She was the most beautiful creature I ever saw in my life”
“Her beautiful face unrecognisable & both arms gone”
“Why did not Maxim bring Rebecca? I’m so fond of Rebecca, where is dear Rebecca?”
“She did what she liked., she lived as she liked”
“Rebecca was incapable of love, of tenderness, of decency. She was not even normal”
“Beauty brains and breeding”
“She was afraid of nothing & no one. There was only one thing that ever worried her & that was the idea of getting old”
“Rebecca lied to me on purpose” “She wanted me to kill her”
Age
“Like a guilty child”
“I wished he would not always treat me as a child”
“I did not want to be a child. I wanted to be his mother”
“You look like a little criminal”
“You looked older suddenly, deceitful. It was rather unpleasant”
“one was too sensitive, too raw”
“I wished I was older, different”
“I had never felt so old”
“I wish I was a woman of about 36 dressed in black satin w/ a string of pearls”
“Its a pity you have to grow up”
Rebecca’s Room
Pg 185
“The room had n the appearance of a setting on stage”
“Uninvited guest”
Love
“Little Cupid” - ideas of love breaking down
“fever of first love”- pg 37
“He had not yet said anything yet about being in love” - pg 36
“like guilty lovers who have not kissed b4”
Ben
“I never told no one. I don’t want to be put to the asylum”
