The book Rebecca (by Daphne du Maurier) has similar themes to the song Let it go (by Tim Mcgraw). Both the book and song talk about how characters have a memory that haunts them still to this day. The book and song also talks about how they will never venture back into the past and remember what they have done. The final similar theme between the book and song is how the characters have learned to overcome and live life in the present and not in the past. These are the similar themes between the book Rebecca and the song Let it go. These three theme that both Rebecca and Let it go have creates a general theme which is learning how to overcome and cope with the memories of the past and living life to its fullest in the present and not staying in the past in fear of the memory.
Both Rebecca and Let it go talk about how each character has a certain memory in their past that haunts them and threatens to destroy their life. In Rebecca, the following quote stated by Maxim: "You would like, you told me, at a chosen moment to live the past again. I'm afraid I think rather differently from you. All memories are bitter, and I prefer to ignore them. Something happened a year
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ago that altered my whole life, and I want to forget every phase of my existence up to that time. Those days are finished. They are blotted out. I must begin living all over again." (Chapter 4, pg. 40). This quote was said when the heroine tells Maxim she wishes that she could bottle up and memory that she wanted and whenever she would want to relive that movement all she had to do was uncork it while they were in his car. The line that matches the theme from the song is listed below: Skeletons and ghosts are hidin' in the shadows Threatening me with all the things that they know Choices and mistakes - they all know my name I'm through holdin' in and holdin' on to all that pain also tells us that the person in the song has certain memories that he or she would like to forget but can’t because it seems to follow them wherever they go. Both tell of how something changed their life forever and how they each prefer to forget that it ever happened and keep the pain from showing. This is how Rebecca and Let it go both show how each character has a certain memory that haunts them since the day it happened and currently now. Both the song Let it go and the book Rebecca talk about how they will never venture back into the past and dig up the memory they have been trying to forget. The following quote from Rebecca explains how almost everyone has forgotten or tried to forget what happened to Rebecca and how she died. "Forget it, Mrs. de Winter, forget it, as he has done, thank heaven, and the rest of us. We none of us want to bring back the past. Maxim least of all. And it's up to you, you know, to lead us away from it. Not to take us back there again." (Chapter 11, pg. 128) This was said by Frank when Mrs. De Winter was asking questions about Rebecca. The line from Let it go below parallels the quote because the both talk about forgetting the past and going away from it. Today, I'm gonna keep on walkin' I'm gonna hold my head up high Got no more tears to cry Today, I'm gonna stand out in the rain Let it wash it all away, yeah, wash it all away Sure they are told to us differently, but the main point is that both tell us the theme of never going back to the past and remember what happened. The final theme that Rebecca and Let it go share is that the characters have learned to overcome and forget the past. The following quote from Rebecca states how Maxim and the heroine have overcame their devil. "We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end. We have conquered ours, or so we believe. The devil does not ride us anymore. We have come through our crisis, not unscathed of course." (Chapter 2, pg. 5) The devil is a metaphor for problem or something that has troubled you for some time. The line from the song below also talks about a devil that is troubling him or her and how today they plan to leave it behind them and finally conquer it. I been caught sideways out here on the crossroads Tryin' to buy back the pieces I lost of my soul It's hard when the devil won't get off your back It's like carryin' around the past in a hundred pound sack Today, I'm gonna keep on walkin' I'm gonna hold my head up high Gonna leave it all behind Both the book and song talk about how a problem in the past was troubling them, but now it no longer bothers them and they have left it behind. As you can see, both Rebecca and the song Let it go shares the theme of letting go and overcoming the past. So as you can see the book Rebecca and the song Let it go have many themes that make up the main theme.
They both talk about how a character has memories of the past that haunts them and could very well destroy their lives. They both talk about they try to stay away from the memories and forget what happened in the past. And finally, the song and the book both share the theme of learning to overcome the memory of the past and focus on living today. The themes listed up above form a general theme which both the song and the book truly do share, the general theme of the book and Rebecca is learning how to cope with the memories of the past and not letting them prevent you from living life in the present. This concludes my project over the similar themes of Rebecca and the song Let it
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Here are the flashbacks and foreshadowing. One of the similarities is they both had to do with animals and their parents telling them something. The other is that they have flashbacks of animals. Those are the similarities with flashbacks and foreshadowing.
This does not make up for the lack of other poetic elements, and the simplicity of the writing. The differences between the two pieces is still very vass. The two pieces have two totally different objectives, which makes them have different writing styles. Claire Dederer writes “Song lyrics do a fine imitation of poetry, but they’re not quite the same thing. Lyrics are a vessel, designed to hold a singer’s voice.
They both have a theme of racism and the author gave out what it was like for the black community in the past on having to go threw what they did everyday. In these novels, the characters and the society are alike however, unfortunately they have different endings.
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The hymn, “Shall We Gather at the River” and “The Scarlet Ibis” have similar themes. One of the themes is, one day everything will end, so instead of wanting and wishing for more, appreciate what you have now. The song and short stories have similar themes and morals of stories.
Through this short story we are taken through one of Vic Lang’s memories narrated by his wife struggling to figure out why a memory of Strawberry Alison is effecting their marriage and why she won’t give up on their relationship. Winton’s perspective of the theme memory is that even as you get older your past will follow you good, bad or ugly, you can’t always forget. E.g. “He didn’t just rattle these memories off.” (page 55) and ( I always assumed Vic’s infatuation with Strawberry Alison was all in the past, a mortifying memory.” (page 57). Memories are relevant to today’s society because it is our past, things or previous events that have happened to you in which we remembered them as good, bad, sad, angry etc. memories that you can’t forget. Winton has communicated this to his audience by sharing with us how a memory from your past if it is good or bad can still have an effect on you even as you get older. From the description of Vic’s memory being the major theme is that it just goes to show that that your past can haunt or follow you but it’s spur choice whether you chose to let it affect you in the
In this case Rebecca walker’s struggles come from her moving around so often in her childhood and being unable to have a lasting healthy relationship with one person. All throughout the book, Black, White, and Jewish she continuous to develop friendships with many people but never refers back to most of them. At one point in her life, she begins associating with the wrong type of friends and hits a rough patch in her life where she does drugs, and gets sexually active with men much older than her. Lena was one of Rebecca’s friends that encouraged her bad behavior. Often, Rebecca and Lena would snick into Lena’s father’s study and take weed from his desk and get high and then munch of snacks all night while talking about the most recent drama. Michael was a guy that Rebecca had a major crush on and they would stay up late at night talking on the phone. Until one day he bribed her into letting him come over to doctor him up. She prepared hot tea for him and slipped around the house with a nice robe on. That night she lost her
different themes that they conflict with each other. One is the appreciation of nature and the
Both stories show change in people after a dramatic event. The boys on the island start out as innocent young kids and quickly evolve into violent savages. The events that took place on the island can never be taken back, and will never be forgotten. Maria came into the institution as a sane person but her corrupt, chaotic surroundings turned her insane just like all the other women in the building.
In Frosts poem two themes are isolation and choices. Isolation because the man is alone and wants to be alone, and the weather gives it alone feels because people don’t go out while it’s snowing alone most of the time. The other them in this poem is choices because the man has to choice wither to go home to the village or watch the snow which his horse disagrees with. But, in the end he choices to go home where it warm and where he can keep all his promise. In Poes poem the two themes are madness and love. Madness because the man in this poem is basically insane, he talks to a bird if the bird is even really there. Also love is a theme because he truly loved his wife and all he wants is to be with her. In both the poems there is a man and the real world theme in Frosts poem it’s snowing which kind of entices the man to stay and watch but he stays he could die from the cold. In Poes poem its night time and windy and there are spirits outside and they come in as the form of the raven.
In a literary work, theme is defined as the main idea or underlying message (Literary Devices). In Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon, there are a several themes that communicate lessons to the reader. The central themes conveyed in the novel are flying to freedom, the influence of racism, and the abandonment of women.
A commonality in the two themes is that freedom can’t survive for anyone when even the smallest child or strongest group are unwillingly sacrificed in order to achieve it. Both stories believe that freedom is shared among people, not reserved for the chosen. A difference is how the characters react to the theme. In “Harrison Bergeron”, people are too unintelligent and unaware to realize the injustice. However, the citizens of Omelas are extremely aware of what they are doing to the wretched child, but they choose to ignore it in order to maintain their happiness at whatever cost to their
Weslaco is a small town which is great, it’s where all her friends live and where her life is. She loves it here and it being a small town has taught her to appreciate the little things in life, but this has not impacted her life the most. You see Rebecca has learned the most from her parents, most importantly her dad. Their marriage was not perfect, in fact it was broken. This marriage took away her innocence at a young age and taught her that reality
Both characters seem to break down to their most vulnerable selves. The couple shares Rebecca’s small shack and exchange more embraces than in any other scene. Maxims wife begs him to stay with her even though she knows he still loves Rebecca, and Maxim puts down his wall, and decides to tell her the truth about his feelings for Rebecca that he has been hiding all along. One of the craziest parts about the story Rebecca is this sequence. The entire story we believe that this is a story about the main character working on her gripe with Maxims late wife whom she can’t seem to amount up to; until this scene. In this sequence we learn that Maxim never really loved Rebecca and not only that, he’s the one who killed her. In the revelation the Maxim never loved Rebecca, the main character can finally stop comparing herself to her and can recognize that Maxim loves her for who she is. This overwhelming passion to be with him is displayed in the desperation you hear in Mrs. De Winters voice when she tries to reason with her husband, saying the only ones who know of Maxim’s secret is them and that it can stay that way. One reason I chose this sequence was because it was peculiar to me, the reason that the director took the most shocking plot twist and changed it. In the novel, Rebecca was murdered by Maxim’s shotgun, but in the film she's explained to have tripped and fallen to her
In both stories there is an abundance of similarities and differences. However, in the end, the underlying theme is the same. What women want is power over their husbands