How the Novel Rebecca Reflects and Subverts the Conventions of the Roma

Im invariably ill-tempered in the early morning. I repeat to you, the choice is open up to you. Either you go to America with Mrs Van Hopper or you follow home to Manderly with me.Do you mean you want a secretary or something?No, Im asking you to marry me, you little fool.Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier is a fine suit of the romantic genre as it reflects received prescripts such as the protagonist and hired gunine?s characteristics. It also subverts many romantic conventions for example, the journey to happy of all time after. Conventions of the mediaeval/horror genre are also found in the newfangled.The conventions that Rebecca reflects of the romantic genre are those of the characteristics of the hero and heroine (as mentioned above). The heroine is usually innocent and unprotected with low confidence and low self-esteem. The teller of the novel also holds these characteristics. The first base impression of the hero seems rude, arrogant and insufferable but the heroine s oon realises she was improper and sees the hero differently. This is also a convention of the Romantic genre. Rebecca also subverts certain aspects of the genre, such as the ?happily ever after? ending to well-nigh romantic novels. The gothic genre is also found in the novel, with the middle of Rebecca haunting Maxim and the narrator?s marriage.One major convention of the Romantic genre is the innocence, vulnerability and lack of confidence of the heroine. In Rebecca, the narrator constantly refers to herself as an un-educated, inexperienced and young schoolgirl, ??I was a vernal thing and unimportant?there was no need to include me in the conversation.? Throughout the first six chapters, the narrator is depicted as real young with no experience. She admits this herself, ?It was a s... ...it? Open the title-page.? Nonsense, I said, I?m only going to put the book with the rest of the things.? As if prompted by Rebecca?s spirit, the book falls open on the title page. The heroine keep scent the force of the writing as she thinks, ?How alive was her writing though, how overflowing of force.? The page is then torn out and burned, and the heroine?s thought obtain cleared. This section of the novel has a major gothic and horror feel to it.Conclusively, the novel Rebecca reads as a very intense and interesting novel reflecting as well as subverting the conventions of the romantic genre. It also includes many aspects of the gothic and horror genre which create a haunting theme for the storyline. The hero?s way of treating the heroine is arrogant even though she refuses to accept it. They neer reach happily ever after for their marriage is forever obsessed by Rebecca.