Literary Techniques In The Passage From Rebecca

Many believe that dreams are just ourselves but in different world and bodies where we experience things that don't exist within our own world. What if dreams are just our minds showing us the reality of what are lives are or even can become at some point in time. The passage from Rebecca is a view into a world where dreams aren't always the greatest and sometimes these dreams can turn easily into a nightmare. The real question is which of the dreams should the dreamers listen to the ones of light and hope or of fire and ashes? Daphne du Maurer, creates a story where the moods are mysterious, nightmarish, and nostalgic that are all made possible with her use of literary techniques such as diction, imagery, and detail.

In the beginning

“... in her stealthy, insidious way how it encroached the driveway with long tenacious.” The word insidious shows that the roots of the tree may seem harmless until they attack and prove otherwise. The description of the long tenacious fingers allows the reader to create a vivid image of what horrible sites are on the path. “ The trees had thrown out low branches, making unimpediment to progress, the grarled roots looked like skeleton claws.” (Lines 34-36) Daphre du Maurer’s use of imagery is impactful here with the skeleton claws. It's as if the reader can invision these roots grasping to be let out of the ground. “... rearing to monster height without a bloom, black, and ugly as the nameless parasite that grew beside them.” (Lines 41-43) To make the mood shift further the diction used to emphases how unkept the bushes are creates a personification of a bush to a parasite that won't stop growing in its ugly state. These lines are where the mood of the story takes a shift to a darker tone with Du Maurier’s gut renching imagery that accurately moves the story onto its next