2.28.2020

DAPHNE DU MAURIER, Rebecca (1938)

"REBECCA  (1938) PLAGIARISM FROM JANE EYRE" (1845) :

we have 4 resemblances :

1. The second Mrs.De Winter (name ?) remembered the old mansion Manderley.
   
    The second Mrs.Rochester, Jane Eyre, remembered Thornfield Hall.

2. Daphne Du Maurier tells the life of the first Mrs.De Winter, the beautiful Rebecca, dead but
    never forgotten.
 
   Charlotte Bronte tells the life of the first Mrs.Rochester, Bertha Mason, she still lives, she is a mad,
     lunatic woman.

3. The first Mrs.De Winter, Rebecca, had a servant, the sinister Mrs.Danvers. (see image above)
 
    The first Mrs.Rochester has a servant, the sinister Grace Poole, lives also in the castle.

4. The second Mrs.De Winter returns to Manderley, the castle is burned.
 
    The second Mrs.Rochester returns to Thornfield Hall, a blackened ruin, it was burned to the
      ground. (during the fire, Rochester went back to get his mad wife out of her cel).