Daphne was born in 1907, grand-daughter of the brilliant artist and writer George du Maurier, daughter of Gerald, the most famous Actor Manager of his day, she came from a creative and successful family.
She began writing short stories in 1928, and in 1931 her first novel, 'The Loving Spirit' was published. It received rave reviews and further books followed. Then came her most famous three novels, 'Jamaica Inn', 'Frenchman's Creek' and Rebecca'. Each novel being inspired by her love of Cornwall, where she lived and wrote.
The narrator is distressed by how powerfully Rebecca’s presence is felt in and around Manderley even though she has been dead for over a year. And how everyone seems to want to tell her how wonderful Rebecca was except Maxim who can hardly bear to mention Rebecca’s name.
DID YOU EXPECT TO SEE MANDERLEY BURNED DOWN LIKE THAT AT THE END OF THE FILM? WHY? HAS IT ANY SPECIAL MEANING FOR YOU?
WHAT'S YOUR OPINION?
Does the novel end in the same way?
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It was a surprise to see that beautiful castle on fire.
I didn't expect this scene because I was looking forward to seeing Mrs Danver leave Manderley forever.
However, after seeing the film, I thought about it and understood that that scene had a purpose: it meant that the past had to be left behind and that Maxim and his new wife could not have been happy living in Manderley. Rebecca's presence there was too strong.
The film isn´t better than book,but I think that it´s a good film because I like films with suspense,love and jealousy.I think that in this time was very hard to make films and for this reason this film is so good.It was transmitting a lot of sensations when you are looking it that it´s impossible not to feel nothing.
Absolutely not. I didn’t expected that ending at all.
In the film, the two main characters, Mr Maxim and his new wife, have a strange and difficult relationship because of three things. Firstly, there is a big age difference between them. Secondly, the presence of his dead wife Rebecca. Finally, the frightening housekeeper, Mrs Danvers that had dominant personality, she was a jealous woman. So, I expected that anb live at Manderley, despite the presence of Rebecca everwhere.
Anyway, what I like about this end, is that the memories of Rebecca disapper and Mr and Mrs Winter can star new life and Mrs Danvers dies, too.
The end in the novel no it dosen’t some wai. In the novel, Maxim and his wife both arrive to Manderley together, by the car, but in the film Mrs Winter was already there. What more, in the film is clear that Mrs Danvers dies in the flames, but in the book we just suppose that she cause the fire.
There are other differents between the book and the film. For example, in the book there are more detail and more characters.
For me, this end means that Rebecca has won, that anyone will take has place in manderley and is as if Mrs Danvers was the guardian of all Rebeca’s propities or as if she was the ghost of Rebecca.
I didn’t believed my eyes. Manderley was surrounded with flames! It was incredible.
Sincerely, I wasn’t expecting this end and I was scared because I think that Mrs. de Winter, the novel's protagonist and narrator, had died in the fire of the house.
But, all in all, I liked this end. The remembrance of Rebecca was very strong and Mr. and Mrs. de Winter had that to be happy. And, for it, the past had to erase and the best was to burn Manderley.
I really didn’t think that the film and the book would end like this: Manderley on fire. I think that the meaning of that fact is the end of the past, in some way destroying Manderley is destroying the past, including Rebecca and all the memories. After that, the narrator and Mr. Maxim de Winter started a new life, leaving Manderley and everything connected with it behind and, at last, they could live happily.
This scene had been very striking and I suppose very expensive because is too difficult make this effect of fire.
Is not easy understand this scene because Mrs Danvers didn't have a reason or that seem. But one think is obviously and jordi wrote before, the Rebecca's presence is too strong.
In my case I felt so surprised when I saw Manderley in flames.
I didn't expect that situation. Firstly I thought that Mrs Danver had left Manderley forever and this meant the happiness of couple de Winter.
I think that If Manderley hadn't been in flames, the couple de Winter couldn't have been happy in that place because it had so many things which reminded Rebecca.
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This end is not expected by anybody. When you are reading the book or simply watching the film you think that in the end Mrs Danver will leave Manderley but, when you see Manderley on fire, you rest really surprised and, until some minuts, you don't understand that Rebecca has definetly died with Manderley's destruction and that Mr de winter and the new Ms the winter can live together with any worry.
Firstly I didn’t expect the house to be burnt at the end of the story. Neither I thought that the narrator finished married with Maxim the Winter. Although in the middle I thought in the beginning where had appear one house to seem Manderley burned in the dream of Mrs the Winter. It could be that have an accident cause the burn or similar to.
I thought that Manderley’s burning meant something because the fire is represents destruction (the past, the memories…) and purification it’s a good end for thin tragically story like the memories and the constant presence of Rebecca in the house.
The book and the film end in the same way. To discover the death and the body of Rebecca. Maxim the Winter went out free thanks to the doctor from London who told Rebecca was ill. Mrs Danvers was very angry and jealous and she burned the house she wanted no body to be happy in Manderley. I can only see little differences between the novel and the film.
In conclusion I like very much the book and the film. Although reading the book has been hard work for me, I’ve enjoyed the story a lot and I would recommend it to my friends.
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