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In the book Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier I am going to analyze the techniques De Maurier uses to build suspense around Rebecca's death, Maxim’s Confession, and the inquest when the boat is found. I am also going to tell you how Du Maurier uses techniques such as dramatic irony around Maxim’s confession to create suspense and a couple of other ways suspense has been built so far. In the Book Rebecca, dramatic irony is used a lot because when Mr.Danvers tells the Narroraot that he killed the late Mrs.Danvers we all know that but when Her ship is found and the courtroom is in session none else knows about what he did as it says on page 270 “The woman buried in the crypt is not Rebecca,” he said. “It’s the body of some unknown woman, unclaimed, …show more content…

I've found a scene in Rebecca that begins comfortably and quickly changes and becomes the exact opposite, to be the ideal representation of du Maurier's larger literary goals. Both the marriage and the haunting are only getting started in this scenario. “He did not look at me, he went on reading his paper, contented, comfortable, having assumed his way of living, the master of his house. And as I sat there, brooding, my chin in my hands, fondling the soft ears of one of the spaniels, it came to me that I was not the first one to lounge in possession of the chair, someone had been before me, had surely left an imprint of her person on the cushions, and on the arm where her hand had rested. Another one had poured the coffee from that same silver coffee pot, had placed the cup to her lips, had bent down to the dog, even as I was doing.” This made me change moods very fast from nice and relaxed to very unsettled because Initially, Du Maurier surprises us and builds tension by combining comfort with discomfort. Maxim feels at home while the narrator does not. Even worse, she is aware that she feels nervous because Maxim is her only ally in the situation. Is it possible that he could care less? The household tranquility that would typically suggest itself to someone viewing this setting is dispelled by a glimpse inside our lonely narrator's thoughts, and we, trapped there, feel alone as

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