Ghost in a Shell
~Blog Post 1~
Topic F
April 17, 2015
By Camden Wilkins
April 17, 2015
By Camden Wilkins
In the chapters in the beginning of Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, the main character describes her old house in Manderly in great detail, but she describes it as a ghost would. She seems to drift slowly from the outer gates to the inner sanctums of the house. The main character (name not specified) is but a wisp of her self, she seems almost supernatural in her dream, as the pieces of her life come back to her slowly and steadily but in a strange and foreign way to her. She drifts through "the empty shell of what used to be" (2), and through its empty halls she wanders, like a ghost, reliving the memories that she had once held there. The main character recounts many things that were out of place in her dream, she seems to go to through Manderly and slowly describe and pick out all the things that were out of place throughout the mansion that she once lived in. Her dream is lucid and quite vivid, she seems to be in a dream that she herself is guided through, but at the same time she is also controlling her thoughts and actions. The main character seems to suddenly stop after a small while and she just suddenly wakes up in the middle of a ride across the country with her traveling compainion, and all she is left knowing is that "Manderly was no more" (4).
I like the way you talked about how everything was coming back to her in an unusual foreign way. When reading this scene, it totally does seem as if she is trying to piece back together her memories, but to me it seemed more like she was attempting to go back and see her memories through the eyes of something that is dead and gone. Manderley is literally ashes now, and its almost as if her being a ghost represents how Manderley is dead and just a ghost of her past.
ReplyDeleteYour post is very consistant with your main idea; you don't deviate from it for more than a sentence. Your analysis is deep and profound as well. In all, I'd give you an A-, for random errors taking off some points.
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