Rebecca A Sociopath Quotes

There, up high on her throne, manipulating them as game pieces on a chessboard, their fate will be decided by her; their lives are used to advantage her purposes. Before the victim is trapped, they are charmed by the seemingly heartless fiend. Then, at that point without knowing, deluded into being her follower. In the novel Rebecca, the late Mrs. de Winter, or Rebecca, had shown some qualities that could classify her as a sociopath. Throughout the novel, there are small clues that whisper the truth; they are revealed to have been hints for Rebecca’s true nature. Rebecca shows essential characteristics that expose her sociopathic disposition, such as, being manipulative and lacking the ability to feel remorse.
Rebecca was a lot of things, but what stood out the most was her ability to manipulate. Everyone who knew Rebecca had opinions about her, the

majority of them were favorable.

In view fact she was brilliant in manipulating people and fooling them into thinking she was exceedingly delightful. In one scene, Maxim is describing how Rebecca would get to you. “She knew exactly what to say to different people, how to match her mood to theirs. Had she met you, she would have walked off into the garden with you, arm-in-arm, calling to Jasper, chatting about flowers, music, painting, whatever she knew to be your particular hobby; and you would have been taken in, like the rest. You would have sat at her feet and worshipped her (Pg. 271-272)”. Rebecca knew just what to say to everyone to get them to adore her. She did this to have more followers to gain power. Mrs. Danvers had given the narrator two other examples of Rebecca’s ruthless manipulation. Mrs. Danvers said, “She twisted her father round

her little finger, and she’d have done the same with her mother, had she lived (Pg. 243). Rebecca not only manipulated everyone she met, her father, too, was captured by his own creation. Mrs. Danvers had also said in the same conversation, “They made love to her of course, who would not? She laughed, she would come back and tell me what they had said, and what they’d done. She did not mind, it was like a game to her. Like a game. Who wouldn’t be jealous? They were all jealous, all mad for her” (Pg 245). Rebecca’s manipulation was a joke to her. A filthy joke that she laughed at until her dying breath. She was clearly not sane; this helps support the notion of her being a sociopath, as well as her lack of remorse.
In order for Rebecca to carry on her work, she can not feel a speck guilt by what she was doing. That leads people to believe that she was lacking the ability to feel remorse. Rebecca had threatened Ben one night when he look in the cottage window, “She turned on me, she did. ‘You don’t know me, do you?’ she said. ‘You’ve never seen me here, and you won’t again. If I catch you looking at me through the windows here I’ll have you put in the asylum,’ she said. ‘You wouldn’t like that, would you? They’re cruel to people in the asylum,’ she said. ‘I won’t say nothing, Ma’am,’ I said” (Pg. 154). Rebecca had threatened Ben. He was one person she didn’t have to worry about letting people know her secret. No one would believe him. So, she would threaten him not feeling sinnful or caring about how scared and confused he might have felt. Rebecca was also described by Mrs. Danvers. She said, “She was never one to stand mute and still and be wronged. ‘I’ll see them in hell, Danny,’ she’d say, ‘I’ll see them in hell first.’ ‘That’s right, my dear,’ I’d tell her, ‘no one will put upon you. You were born into this world to take what you could out of it,’ and she did, she didn’t care, she wasn’t afraid” (Pg. 243). Mrs. Danvers said that Rebecca didn’t care. She took what she could out of the world without caring what she was doing or whom it may be affecting. Mrs. Danvers also said, “I remember her at sixteen getting up on one of her father’s horses, big brute of an animal too, that the groom said was too hot for her to ride. She stuck to him, all right. I can see her now, with her hair flying out behind her, slashing at him, drawing blood, digging the spurs into his side, and when she got off his back he was trembling all over, full of froth and blood. ‘That will teach him, won’t it, Danny?’” (Pg. 244). Rebecca had rode the horse until it was covered in its own blood. This is a cruel way to treat an animal, and afterwards she said to Danny without a hint of remorse, “‘That will teach him’”.