~Rebecca- Motif~

In Rebecca the strongest literary element was motif. The motif of the story was the Manderley. The Manderley is the large mansion that the main characters live in. It hold many secrets That are waiting to be told. The author uses the motif of the Manderley to enhance the characters. It enhances the characters by helping create the feeling that the characters are feeling.

I think that the motif is so strong in this book is because of what Manderley also means to the characters. To the characters like Maxim it represents the terrible past that he had there and is still haunting him. To Mrs. de Winters it reminds her the terrible events that once happened there and of Rebecca, the ex- wife, who seems to haunt the halls. But besides being scary the Manderley can also represent elegance and the great life that one must have living in a place like that.

Outside Reading

For my outside reading book, I am reading Rebecca. So far it is interesting but it is a little hard to get into. This is because it is slow in the beginning. It did immediately grab my attention because at the beginning the narrator starts talking about her past at the manderley which makes you want to read on. Out of the five literary elements imagery seem the most dominent because of how discriptive the author is. So far it seem pretty obvious.

I think the autor is using this to give a larger idea of what happen in the past at the manderley. it makes it more interesting to the reader to read about a discriptive detailed past. The tone of the book is nostaggic and dramatic because it is refferring to the past and the author is emotional about it. The tone doesn't change often. It stays the same so we it has the same feeling of not knowing or understanding what is happening.