Rebecca As Toril Moi

Apparently, the plotline follows throughout the inner struggles of a young bride and Maxim de Winter is also one that is anchored on the shores of the historical, socio-economic and cultural England. The story is a fairy tale, a gothic tale, a romance, a realist narrative, a modernist story and even autobiographical, drawn from du Maurier’s own trespassing sprees into their later to be countryside home in Cornwall, called Menabilly. Our narrator is shadowed by the ghosts of, not only Rebecca but, all those in this tradition who came before Rebecca. Born of the Victorian tradition, sitting on the modernist tradition of the inter-war years in England and looking on to the post-structuralist, deconstructive and post-modernist traditions, Rebecca …show more content…
Both the women are in stark contrast to each other, as the narrator represents the Victorian ideals of womanhood whereas her predecessor is symbolic of modernism that was evolving by adhering to the characteristics of the ‘New Woman’. Thus, by feminist interpretation of Daphne Du Maurier’s much acclaimed novel Rebecca, we get to know about the ideology of society of the twentieth century, in their treatment of woman from the idealised and suppressed ‘angel’ to supposedly independent and modern ‘New