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Women & Film I
Major Essay on Rebecca November 5, 2003
Rebecca is just another of Alfred Hitchcock’s melodramas that comments on masculine dominance within the family. ... These scenarios are also true in Rebecca. ...
This essay with show that Rebecca is not unlike Hitchcock’s other movies, as for the most part they all deal heavily with male dominance in a patriarchal society. ... And in Rebecca it is a nameless heroine who needs to feel loved and important and thinks that only a man can make her feel that way. ...
Rebecca is set up as a flashback for a young girl who is remembering her life at Manderley. ... Tania Modleski outlines these such instances in her chapter on Rebecca from her book, The Women Who Knew Too Much, “Throughout the film Maxim continually orders her about, telling to finish
her breakfast ‘like a good girl,’ to stop biting her nails, to wear a raincoat (‘you can’t be too careful with children’), and, ludicrously enough, ‘never to wear black satin or pearls, or to be thirty-six years old. ... With age comes wisdom, and knowledge is power and Maxim is terrified of women with power, as we come to find out when the truth about Rebecca is revealed. ... After uncovering an old abandoned house (once belonging to Rebecca), she gets some rope and leads Jasper back to Mr. ... All she wants is for him to love her as much as she thinks he loved Rebecca. ... Therefore she is constantly trying to be just like Rebecca thinking that that is what he wants. At one point she even shows up wearing black satin and pearls (an outfit that Rebecca would have worn), thinking that it will make him more attracted to her. ... As they all sit down to lunch, Joan Fontaine’s character, is once again made to
look inferior to Rebecca as Giles strikes up a conversation with her and “succeeds only in establishing that, unlike Rebecca, she doesn’t ride, doesn’t dance, and doesn’t sail. ... It turns out that she is dressed just as Rebecca dressed for the masquerade ball the year before. ...
In conclusion, Rebecca deals with a plot which inevitably places a young woman under the care of a dominating male.
Approximate Word count = 2199
Approximate Pages = 8.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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