3873 9054 1 PB
3873 9054 1 PB
3873 9054 1 PB
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seems so powerless to defeat Rebecca’s the car and told me terrible, evil
domination. The aforementioned plot things about herself. Thisngs that I
structure leads to the premature assumption could not tell anyone.”
“She knew that I would never
that woman has powerful domination over
divorce her” (p.90).
man in domestic life. Below is a scheme I thought about Manderley too
showing Rebecca’s plot structure based on much,...I told her that Manderley
structural analysis. was mine” (p.91).
“And she smiled at me again. She
Climax was smiling when I killed her. the
bullet went through her heart”
(p.92).
Rising Action Falling
Action Maxim cannot forget Rebecca since
he has a very unpleasant memory with her
Incentive Resolution dealing with her domination in their marriage
Moment
Adopted from Wardoyo (2004) and domestic life. Maxim is being traumatic
person caused by Rebecca. His trauma
Picture 1. Rebecca’s plot structure scheme triggers him to kill Rebecca by shooting her.
De winter’s Trauma cannot be erased
Incentive Moment in Rebecca starts
although Rebecca had already died. Rebecca
when Caroline and Mr. de Winter meet each
causes so many troubles for de Winter’s life.
other in Monte Carlo. Then the Raising
De Winter lives in fear because of his
Action happened when they both decide to
conspiracy in killing Rebecca considered as a
get married and Caroline becomes Mrs. de
serious crime. His conspiracy brings to the
Winter. they both live in Manderley. Mrs.de
falling action plot i.e. Mr. de Winter
Winter cannot able to adapt to the life of
Judgement. The litigation is closed by the
Manderley so that she tends to be weak and
resolution namely Mr. de Winter’s impunity.
powerless. In addition, she cannot able to
Mr. de Winter gets the impunity since the
avoid Rebecca’s shadow in Manderley.
court cannot prove his fault.
Those aforementioned Mrs. de Winter /
In the above plot structure, there can
Caroline’s weak and powerless characters
be seen that there is a binary opposition
lead to the Climax of the story i.e. the internal
between woman and man. The woman is
conflict between her and her husband, Maxim
represented by Rebecca, while the man is
de Winter. Maxim cannot escape from the
represented by Maxim de Winter. Rebecca
shadow of Rebecca’s domination. It makes
has dominant power in the domestic arena in
him become temperament.
marriage life. Hence, The plot structure
Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca, Re-
proofs that woman has powerful domination
narrated by Margaret Tarner (1991):
over the man.
The plot structure cannot be separated
“All my memories are unhappy”
from Rebecca’s action. As the centre of the
(p.13).
story, Rebecca actuates and leads the story to
“I found out the truth five days
the tension of the story. The tension is
after we were married. We were in
divided into two that are internal and
the hills near Monte Carlo. It was
interpersonal conflicts of the character of Mr.
the same place I went to woth you.
De Winter. The internal conflict possessed by
Do you remember? She sat there in
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