求蝴蝶梦英文简介和英文评论

求蝴蝶梦英文简介和英文评论

The novel I read is REBECCA. It is written by an English female novelist, biographer, and playwright Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989) whose married name is Lady Daphne Browning. Daphne du Maurier was born in London. She came from an artistic family. Her father was the actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier; her uncle, a magazine editor, published one of her stories when she was a teenager and got her a literary agent. In her childhood she was a voracious reader. She married to Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Arthur Montague Browning II, who was knighted for his distinguished service during World War II. They were happily married for thirty-three years and had three children. 　　Most of her works are romantic suspense novels set on the coast of Cornwall where she sailed, walked and lived. REBECCA, written in 1938, is known as the best novel of Daphne Du Maurier. It is filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1940 and became one of the top five box-office hits of 1940 and won Academy Awards for Best Picture and Cinematography, though Du Maurier herself did not like the film, which shifted the locale from Cornwall to America. 　　Summary of the novel 　　In Monte Carlo, “I”, a paid companion of a rich and snobbish woman, came across Maxim, owner of the grand English estate, Manderley. They fell in love and got married in a few weeks. But when they came back to Manderley, the bride felt Maxim’s former wife Rebecca had always existed in their house, and the marriage. And the house keeper, Mrs. Danvers, who was a crazy fan of Rebecca, had made Rebecca's room a shrine, Mrs. Danvers always put on more pressure to this marriage and tried to drive the bride away from Manderley. “I”, knowing that Rebecca was a beautiful, sophisticated, and supremely confident woman, had suffered from great inferiority and lived painfully in the presence of Rebecca ‘s spirit. She eventually learned that Maxim did not love Rebecca, a cruel, egoistical woman. Rebecca failed finally, in ruining her husbands’ life. Maxim and “I” also lost Manderley, which was ruled by Rebecca and her adherent and finally gone with a mysterious fire after Mrs. Danvers ‘resignation. 　　Characters Analysis 　　Mrs. Van Hopper: an interesting little figure. She is a short and ill-balanced woman, grasping in one hand a lorgnette, or rather an enemy to other people’s privacy. People like her can hardly find a friend, so she paid a timid poor girl to be her companion, or, say, a servant. But Mrs. Van Hopper was also proved to be a terrible employer for she had even worried her paid companion should have better appetite than her. She was a snobbish boot licker, too. She took a rich man’s irony as granted while she cannot stand her paid “friend-to-the-bosom” answering one simple question in her talking with the rich guy.  But thanks to Mrs. Van Hopper’s snobbish, the paid friend had her chance to know and fall in love with the rich man. Although when Mrs. Van Hopper heard that they were getting married, she cannot help mocking the will-be-bride instead of just blessing, but of course, she pretended to be congratulatory and much happier in front of the will-be-bridegroom. 　　Little figures always play important parts, though they are not necessarily adorable. 　　Rebecca: the dark queen of Manderley. She never shows up; she is said to be very beautiful but there is not the least description of her except that she was tall with long black hair; she has been died for 10 months when the story begins, but seems to be everywhere since the heroine and her husband‘s first met when Mrs. Van Hopper said”he can’t get over his wife’s death”. After the couple was home, the bride felt that Rebecca was like a spook, wandering in her life and making her miserable. It seems that Maxim was always thinking about Rebecca, whom everyone loved, who died in a boating accident just a year before, whose handkerchief was still left in the raincoat, and whose hand-writing can be seen on the desk of the morning room. Rebecca seems to be what a man can ever dream of and what a woman dreamed to be. But in fact, Rebecca is the most terrible woman a living soul can ever imagine. When she knew she was dying, she set her husband up to murder her and drowning him in her shadows ever after. 　　The only one thing I really adore about Rebecca is that, she made everyone like her, blind grandmother, agent, house maids, foot men, and even the dogs, let alone her crazy fan, Mrs. Danvers. And she hid herself deeply from everyone who loves her, that’s really hard for me and people around. 　　The unnamed heroine: A young, naive woman, the paid companion, who married an elder, handsome widower. She is just a kid, feeling confused about love, sitting beside the elder man and biting her nails. She is full of imaginations: driving in a car and saw a farmer girl waving, and then hoped to invent a memory-store device and take the moment forever; being ashamed for her young age, she would like to imagine herself to be 36 wearing black satin and pearls. And most of her imagination rooted in her self-contemptuously comparison herself to Rebecca: this is not what Rebecca would have done, Rebecca must have done it like this, Rebecca was taller, Rebecca was a social butterfly, Rebecca was very beautiful, Rebecca, Rebecca, Rebecca! I am nothing like Rebecca! 　　She tried to change things and people’s expression of her, she managed to hold the dressing ball like Rebecca used to do, but a cruel joke was played on her, and it seems she's at a worse position than before, but then something happens in the bay. Something is found, something to do with Rebecca, and her husband confessed to her, and for the first time she felt she could be happy again and had enough strength to support her husband and defeat Mrs. Danvers, because she knew that he never loved Rebecca. 　　I studied the heroine’s behavior after knowing the truth; she faced Mrs. Danvers directly and acted like a confident mistress of Manderley. She will hold another ball, and order her clothes from London, do her hairs at the best barber’s, see people like Mrs. Van Hopper everyday, and maybe learn to ride and sail. She would get used to everything in Manderley quickly, and I wondered if she would turn from a poor, naïve kid to a woman like Rebecca if Manderley was not burnt. And when that happened, I can never allow myself to like her. 　　Personal Reflection 　　It began with a dream: “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.” In fact, the whole story is like a dream, or rather a nightmare. Because the heroine always had too many imaginations, about how would her life be if something happened or didn’t happened, or how would Rebecca do when she was alive. And her imagination went far, far away, and rambled for several pages, and that always give me the ** that all those of her imaginations were truly happened while the reality became a dream. 　　It occurred to me that plants can be something really mysterious and as alive as a jumping fish. Beeches with white arms embracing above our head, squat oaks and tortured elms straggled cheek by jowl of the beeches. Nettles choked the terrace, ivy held prior in the garden, a lilac had mated with a copper beech… what ever those plants are, through the whole book, there are different names of plants that I could ever count, and the author made them alive, like animals, people, and monsters. 　　It ended with a crimson sky, and ashes were blew everywhere with the salt wind from the sea. Manderley was burnt, Manderley was no more. Rebecca failed, but she didn’t leave a happy ending. she had gone in the ashes and salt wind, taking Manderley with her. It seems fair to her, for Mainderley was made famous by her own hand. How could Rebecca stand that her lawful husband living in her shrine with a timid poor girl and never think of her again? She can never stand it if anything went out of her control. So her crazy fan, Mrs. Danvers, is the first to be suspected being the person who buried Manderley with Rebecca. 　　It also reminds me of JANE EYRE, as the two books both have young, not conventionally heroines who are alone and fall in love with older mysterious wealthy men. And of course both novels have beautiful dark women from the men's past who threaten to ruin the heroines' happiness. The hero's are both hurt by their horrid first wives. 　　It takes me into a mysterious aura, where every living thing grows with a specific sound, sound that nobody can hear; where in a black background stood an old castle, with decaying beauty, frightening spirits and horror mixed with love and death. And I like that kind of gothic romance.

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