Rebecca Notes Essay

knightly terror, mystery, supernatural, ghosts, haunted houses and Gothic architecture, castles, darkness, death, decay, doubles, madness, secrets and hereditary curses. Physiological thriller characters are reliant on their mental resources, whether it is by battling wits with a formidable opponent or by battling of equilibrium in the characters own mind. Subversion of romance sets up the conventions of a romantic music genre then slowly subvert or undercut/demolishes our expectations. Crime crimes, their detection, criminals, and their motives. The novel is written first person by the narrator, who is never named within the book, and can be considered an unreliable narrator, because e verything is shown through her unreliable narrative ? she is persecuted, she is inadequate, she has an inferiority complex and she is haunted by Rebecca. The narrator dreams twice, once in the beginning and once in the end, which conveys the true statement that her conscious mind cannot.In the be ginning of the novel the most evident genres are Gothic and anti-romance, but as the novel progresses the genres crime and physiological thriller appear more often. There is the continuity of reference back to gothic, but in the last 7 chapters, it is it dominated by more of the crime genre. Rebecca is dominated by the Gothic genre throughout the whole novel because of the continuous presence of Rebecca and the overshadowing Manderley. Even in the end, seems to have risen from the dead to have her final penalize ? through Mrs Danvers and the burning of Manderley.In the very beginning of the book, the narrator introduces us to Manderley as an empty inviolate, untouched, cold no smoke came from the chimney, dismal place desolate shell, soulless at last, unhaunted Whenever Rebeccas name is mentioned Maxim de Winter seems to become excessively emotional The rhododendrons, blood-red and luscious symbolic of Rebecca Mrs. Danvers seems very mysterious, deathly cold, skeleton and lifele ss The constant references back to Rebecca I was sitting in Rebeccas chair, I was leaning against Rebeccas cushion.Even though the Gothic genre is the most dominant genre there are also the secondary genres Physiological thriller mystery and crime of the death of Rebecca, the continuous haunting of Rebecca on the narrators mind, also the continuous irony of how right after the Manderley clip eggs Rebeccas body is found Crime the formal inquest is held and Maxims connected murder and his motives are shown The past in opening chapters is itself a mystery why is Manderley a ruin?Unclear as yet but Rebeccas death a mystery, which seems to affect everyone at Manderley who was she? Narrator feels like she doesnt belong This was their routinelong custom ? caught in an alien world of tradition. Rebeccas presence in the household still evident ? makes the narrator feel like an intruder Keeping alive the spirit of Rebecca the room was filled with them ? pot keep putting more flowers int o the room like Rebecca used to The irony of how Rebecca who had died a year ago is discovered again right after the Manderley ball Rebecca, whom they describes as beautiful, talented having drowned a year ago, and then Maxim marrying again the following spring, bringing is bride straight to Manderley and giving a big fancy dress ball in her honour..the following morning the body of his first wife being found trapped in the cabin of her sailing boat, at the posterior of the bay. Both papers used the same word, ironic . Yes, I suppose it was ironic. It made a good story. Subversion of romance the narrator expects to be whisked past to a grand big house Manderley and be loved and plow old with Maxim for the rest of her life, but everything doesnt go as she judge or what we expected.She expects to grow old and live happily with Maxim for the rest of her life and she will always be loved by Maxim We should grow old here together, we should sit like this to our tea as old people, Maxim and I, with other dogs She thinks Maxim asked her to marry her because he loved her, but in fact he just need a companion and Mrs Van Hopper seems to know exactly what would happen you know why he is marrying you, breakt you?You havent flattered yourself hes in love with you? Themes The themes are ambiguous but some can be identified sum the 1st marriage was fake ? controlled ? arragont the 2nd marriage was submissive ? better then the 1st Obssesion of Rebecca Narrator Maxim Mrs Danvers Favell Control/insecurity Death the opinion on the living and the consequences of causing death.