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Time Keeps Moving, Everything Changes
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Rebecca a Game of Perception
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Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Following the transformation from innocence to experience, the couple escapes the confines of the murderous elapse and relocates to France. There, daily routine is emphasised, forward with the tyranny of the clock in its insistence on repetitive strokes, and repetitive operations. Gone are the days of adventure, fear, and newness. All that the clock leaves is an eternity of repetition: When time, unmeasured by the clock, runs on into eternity (1976: 9).
The narrator in Rebecca remains unnamed. She begins by contemplating her youth and how she came to be where she is now, showing how time and experience shape our present state. She returns to her innocence as an orphan working as a fellow to the uncultured Mrs Van Hopper. She blushes as others and lacks confidence in her own station in life.
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Time melodramas a magnificent importance in Daphne du Mauriers Rebecca (1976). Du Maurier makes many references to clocks, hours, and the passing of time to signify the ecology of change and the wastage of youth. She also uses time to emphasise the repetitiveness of daily routine as well as the oppression it enforces during moments of suffering.
It is this youthful modesty that attracts the rich, adult, and well-known Maxim de Winter. Mrs Van Hopper originally sets her eyes on him, wishing to add him to her collection of prominent victims. Maxim, indifferent to Mrs Van Hopper, focuses his attention on the narrator, showing her around Monaco and sharing verse with her. It is at this moment the narrator begins accenting the effects of time. Charmed by Maxim, she anticipates her time with him, and dreads the hour in which their daily expeditions will end: My only antagonist was the clock on the dashboard, whose hands push relentlessly to one o clock (1976: 40). Time and formality act as an evil end to simple living in the moment.
I ambitioned to go back afresh, to recapture the moment that had gone, and then it came to me that whether we did, it would not be the same, even the sun would be changed in the sky, hurling distinct shadow. ..There was something chilling in the thought, something mournful, and seeing at the clock I penetrated that 5 more minutes had gone by (1976: 40).
The narrator stops alive in the moment while she strives apt cling to her period with Maxim. While appreciating the beauty that surrounds her, which she recognises is coloured at her own pleased mood, she is haunted by the meteoric moments [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], signified by the passing in the car. Maxim pedals forward [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], she observes. She cannot stop time, whereas she would like to recapture the moment equitable as it is. She knows the hands of the clock ambition change it:
The Loss of Youth
Youth is likewise shredded away by time as innocence and awkwardness dims with experience and suffering. Feelings convert fewer intense, pain begins to sedate. The narrator, from early in her relationship with Maxim [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], feels her youngster ebbing away. The most evident depiction of this is when the narrator is an ally to Maxim behind he confesses to the murder of his 1st wife, Rebecca. Speaking of the naivety that he fell in adore with, Maxim explains that: Its gone in 24 hours, you are much older (1976: 313). Just as the time and customary of annual life slowly take away youth and naivety, intense anguish makes the process speed. The clocks may seem to be ticking oppressively slow, yet the effects are rapid.
Du Maurier, D. (1976) Rebecca. London: Pan Books Limited.