Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier Essay

Love Kills

Emotions can vary in each person in the world. Strong feelings can cause a person to choose actions of the unimaginable. Throughout the story, the characters are left with different sensations that have control over them. The audience is able to uncover a mystery that shows what emotions are capable of. Love serves an important motivational tool for the main characters in Daphne Du Maurier’s novel Rebecca.

The story may be a romantic novel, but along the way, the reader can begin to see each person’s true colors. The characters are full of hate and spite, that are wrapped up in a dark drama. The young narrator falls in love with an older man, Maxim De Winter. Eventually, the young narrator starts to feel out of place. The new Mrs. De Winter

Maxim eventually confesses the secret of Rebecca, his past wife. Through the uncovered secret, the undeniable love is shown through Mrs. De Winter by staying at Maxim’s side. Her actions show she loves Maxim unconditionally, knowing he may hurt her if he felt betrayed. Evidence shows Maxim really loves his new wife, but the feelings may not be real or just imagined because of the intense emotions floating around. The matrimony commitment is complicated between the couple. Mrs. De Winter finds difficulty to separate from Maxim but needs to maintain her identity as his wife; without the status she would be homeless, poor, and alone. She is overly worried to keep the status of a happy marriage that she contemplates jumping to her death over a failed commitment. The housekeeper is also apart of the suicidal thoughts when she says, “ There’s not much for you to live for, is there? Why don’t you jump now and have it done with?” (Maurier 250). The protagonist shows that her social worth is more important to her than her own self worth. Maxim and his wife both have too much baggage and the reader thinks the marriage is bound to fail. The housekeeper also sparks a light in the dark mystery when she exposes a secret of