蝴蝶梦英文影评

When i began to read the novel Rebbecca, I was deeply absorded by the misterious plot. "Last night, I dreamt I went to Manderley again" is the book's often quoted opening line, and fro m here its unnamed narrator recollects her past, telling the story of her transition into womanhood.

Maxim was the owner of Manderley, a big country house by the sea. His beautiful wife Rebecca had died there, and Maxim went to Montr Carlo after her death because he needed to get away. I n Montr Carlo, he met an ordinary girl who then became his second wife. The week they spent in Montr Carlo together was extremely happy. But when they returned to Manderley, the woman’s pr oblem began.

At the heart of the story was the woman’s desire to please her husband and her feelings of hopel essness as she compared herself with his beautiful and highly educated first wife, in comparison w ith whom she felt plain and dull. The first wife seemed to be always in the background and threw a dark shadow over her relationship with her new husband. The name of the second Mrs. de Winter is never revealed and remains a mystery.

After read the book, we only see Rebecca through other people's eyes, predominantly Maxim's eyes. Because Maxim hated her, we are led to think that she was bad. Yet it is clearly stated that sh e had a knack for getting people to love her. This is told in such a way that we think of Rebecca as a manipulative person. But was that the case? Was she genuinely nice? I think this is a case of the unreliable narrator. Because of her affairs Maxim and his family hated her but that may not be her whole story. I think it would be nice to have some discussion of this issue in the article.

After reading the whole story of Rebecca, i can not help asking: why does the heroine remain nameless? This absence of a name symbolizes the heroine's uncertain identity, on which she often nearly loses her grip during her time at Manderley. In marrying Maxim she has taken a new name, and her new acquaintances address her by this name, but she cannot feel comfortable in

it--for she is not the first Mrs. de Winter. Effectively, she is competing for the right to bear her title of Mrs. de Winter- -competing with a ghost, the dead Rebecca.

What I have learned from this book is not only about some writing techniques and skills that had been perfectly used into this novel, more important is Daphne du Maurier the writter, she give us a brand new perspective of the women characters in the novel and women in general, and about the relationship between people.