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Summary Comparison grid: Daphne Du Maurier's 'Rebecca' and John Keats 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci'.
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LINKS BETWEEN NON SUM AND REBECCAREBECCA NON SUM
Mrs Danvers intoxicates herself with the memory of Intoxicating himself with the memory of his loss love
Rebecca. TRIES TO KEEP HER LOVE ALIVE RATHER Cynara - leading him to intoxicate himself with alcohol (in
THAN THE SPEAKER WHO TRIES TO FORGET HIS which he died at 32 of alcholism
LOVE.
“I cried for madder music and for stronger wine”
Chapter 14- - Wine = a symbol of fleeting pleasure. Intoxicating
“The room was fully furnished, as though in use” himself with limited relief. TRYING TO FORGET
- “Fully” - intensification. No attempt at all to pack HIS LOVE BUT DANVERS DOES NOT DO THIS
Rebecca’s things away. AND TRIES TO KEEP HER LOVE ALIVE.
- Obsessive love. Danvers is mourning and has not - THE SPEAKER TRIES TO DISMISS HIS
moved on in a year. 5 stages of grief - 1st denial. OBESSIVE LOVE BUT CANNOT WHEREAS
Although, the narrator being in the room gets OBSESSIVE LOVE IS CARRIED ON MY
Danvers to move on from the 1st stage to the 2nd DANVERS
stage of anger (how the narrator has taken
Rebeccas place as Mrs De Winter).
“There were flowers on the dressing table and on the
table beside the bed. Flowers too on the carved
mantlepiece”
- “And” conjunction intensifies more places
Danver’s has maintained her love. Damaging love,
desire for love, desire to maintain her loss of love.
- “Too” - intensifier. Emphasises 3 vases of flowers.
- Flowers - maintaining these must be a regular
occurrence - link to her obsessive and unhealthy
destructive love.
- THIS OBSESSIVE LOVE IS CARRIED ON MY
DANVERS WHEREAS THE SPEAKER TRIES TO
DISMISS HIS OBESSIVE LOVE BUT CANNOT.
Rebecca’s memory dominates teh novel. She is never Cynara is a ghostly presence.
really there but her presence is strong. Every reminder of A “shadow” that falls between the speaker and his new
rebecca psychologically damages the narrator lover. She constantly reappears. She is never really there
but her presence is strong.
Maxims paleness at the Manderley ball. “Dancing, to put thy pale, lost lilies out of mind”
- Lilies - biblical allusion of death. A metaphor for
The narrators palness once waking up from her cynaras destructiveness. Connotes sickness and
nightmare in chapter 15- paleness - linked to the speakers alcoholism and
She put “a little rouge” on her cheeks to “attempt to give the rhyme scheme being rare in english poetry of
myself colour” ABACBC - a pattern that is unstable and makes
- Tries to conceal the palness/ sickness/ weakness the poem sound weary.
and the imapct of her poor nights sleep dominated - Pale - emasculation. Weakness - subverts
through her damaged thoughts triggered by hypermasculine traits.
Rebecca’s memory.
- She attempts to conceal; the truth of her distress
AS DOES THE SPEAKER HAVING SEX -
CONCEALS HIS TRUTH PARTIALLY.
- Destructive love, painful to health caused by love.
Infantlisation Infantlisation - context - fell in love with a girl and
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