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Rebecca

            
            
             This book takes place in the 19th century. There are a lot of different characters in this book. Some of them have very small parts, but they show you things about the major people in the book.
             Rebecca was a very admired person in her town. Everyone loved her and adored her. She is the wife of Maxim De Winter. She ends up being the ghost of Manderley after her death. She haunts the old house. She tries to scare away Maxim's new wife, The Heroine. Rebecca supposedly killed herself because of a fight that she and Maxim had the night of her death. Rebecca was dying of cancer.
             The Heroine's name never comes up in the book, but Maxim makes the comment that she has a beautiful name. She is the narrator of the story. She is also married to Maxim De Winter. They love traveling around from one place to another and staying from one hotel to another. She is also the mistress of Manderley.
             Maxim De Winter is the owner of Manderley. Manderley is an old house, which is seemed to be haunted. He is the widower of Rebecca, who was supposed to have killed her self in the ocean. But Maxim is the one who killed her himself by sinking her boat. He drilled holes in the bottom. No one knows it until a larger boat hits it, and they bring it up to shore.
             Jack Favell was Rebecca's cousin. He adored Rebecca. The only bad .
             thing about him was he is an alcoholic. This made him have a bad temper. .
             He and Rebecca were having an affair, and the night she died she told .
             Maxim that she was pregnant with Jack's child. .
             Mrs. Danvers is the housekeeper at Manderley. She loved Rebecca .
             very much. She would do anything for her, even kill the mistress, and burn the mansion down. She stuck with her through thick and thin. She didn't leave her side even when she died. Danvers hates the Heroine with a passion. She doesn't agree with Maxim when he brings the Heroine home and tells her that they are going to get married.
             Dr. Baker was the doctor that saw Ms.


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1. Novel Summary - Rebecca

... Tommy "Boy" Browning. Their marriage was rocky, especially when they both cheated on each other, but they stayed together. Du Maurier wrote Rebecca inspired off of events from her own life. She was jealous of a woman named Jan Ricardo, her husband's first fiancé. She had found ... in Cambridgeshire. Milton Hall is where the housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers, came about for the novel. Many of du Maurier's real life experiences translated into her work, Rebecca. "Put coarsely, it is a novel about a dead woman and a house, both of which were drawn from the author's life" (House ... a name. Many pe...

  • Word Count: 3228
  • Approx Pages: 13
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  • Grade Level: High School

2. Rebecca

... Heights, Jane Eyre, and even Dracula, in which dark, ominous landscapes and architecture are the setting for violence, fiery passions, and supernatural events. Rebecca's characters, too, fit the gothic pattern: already we see that in Maxim de Winter, the author has created the perfect gothic hero--the broodingly ... . Despite this one outburst, the heroine cannot imagine him ever returning her feelings; and she often compares herself, unfavorably, to his dead wife Rebecca. Meanwhile, Mrs. Van Hopper knows nothing of the pair's excursions; the heroine attributes her absences to imaginary t...

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  • Approx Pages: 12
  • Grade Level: High School

3. Rebecca

... they stop at Monte Carlo, Mrs. Van Hopper sees a notices a man, who is Maxim de Winter, the owner of Manderley. Maim de Winter had lost his wife, Rebecca, who had died the year before. At first Maxim treats her rudly, but then later apologizes for his rudeness. The day after this, Mrs. Van Hopper is sick, ... on a car-ride & Maxim is very nice to her, until they go by Manderley, then he becomes very cold. Maxim gives her a book of poems that Rebecca had given to him. She & Maxim continue taking rides together and she begins to fall in love with Maxim. She doesn't think that Maxim would e...

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  • Approx Pages: 5
  • Grade Level: High School

4. annalasis of the novel Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier

... based on societies expectations and since the narrator is not of their class, society humble her and make her feel awkward. The novel Rebecca portrays marriage as being based on society's expectations rather than love. This is done through the generic convention of character construction. The two ... wives of Maxim De Winter are used as complete opposites. Rebecca, Maxim's first wife, was accepted in society while the narrator, Maxim's second wife, was not. The narrator is described as being childlike ... to the narrator. The reader understands that the people of society adored her. She ...

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  • Approx Pages: 4
  • Grade Level: High School

5. Rebecca Book Report

... this book because she is the woman that comes in and replaces Maxims (Mr. De Winter) other wife. The other wife's name was Rebecca. The narrator and Rebecca have nothing in common. Rebecca was a very outgoing, beautiful, evil woman. The narrator is a very shy, reserved, sweet woman. The narrator has a very hard ... she should have control. She is constantly pushed around and verbally abused by Ms. Danvers. Ms. Danvers constantly taunts the narrator with stories of Rebecca and how she received much more love and attention from Maxim. Throughout the book the narrator struggles with her shy...

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  • Approx Pages: 4
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6. Rebecca

... story are exceptional and well written, while others are not. It contains powerful characterization and strong foreshadowing but too much imagery. First, Rebecca contains awesome characterization. At the beginning of the story, the reader may be lost and become bored with the plot, because little is ... never learned; probably because Ms. du Maurier thought it was irrelevant to the plot and did not want to develop the narrator's past excessively. Secondly, Rebecca has strong foreshadowing. On page four, Ms. du Maurier writes, "For Manderley was ours no longer. Manderley was no more." Thi...

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  • Approx Pages: 3
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7. Rebecca Harding Davis

... and the work which it did or left undone in the world." ( Bits of Gossip) These are the first words written by Rebecca Harding Davis in her autobiography. Davis was an American author and journalist and was a pioneer of American Realism and one of the most influential ... writers in the 19th century. Rebecca Harding Davis was born June 24, 1831, in Washington, Pennsylvania. She was the eldest daughter of Richard W. Harding who managed a large ... insurance company and also oversaw the financial affairs of his town. Rebecca lived in Pennsylvania for only a short time before moving to Flo...

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8. Rebecca the book

... when it was published. Little did du Maurier know, her novel ended up becoming a great success. Soon after, Alfred Hitchcock made a film version of Rebecca that soon became an even greater success than the novel itself. There are many opinions as to which version is more effective. I believe that the novel ... was far more effective that the movie version for a number of reasons. One of the reasons that I feel that the original novel Rebecca was more effective than the movie version was that I think the novel held suspense in a better way. While reading the novel, my suspense was able .....

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  • Approx Pages: 4
  • Grade Level: High School

9. Mrs Van Hopper - Charater Sketch - Rebecca - Daphne du Mauri

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