Two Ladies

Two Ladies

’

Stage

BUTTERFL

Y

DREAM

was

originally

called

REBECCA.

It

was

written by an English female novelist, biographer and playwright Daphne

Du Maurier, and published had been translated into 20 kinds of

languages

and

reprinted

more

than

40

times.

It

was

filmed

by

Alfred

Hitchcock in 1940 and always won acclaim to the present day.

In

Monte

Carlo

，

the

heroine

，

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, though it

?

s a deal at first.

But

when they came back to

Manderley, the bride felt

Maxim

?

s former

wife Rebecca had always existed in their

house, and marriage.

Even the

house keeper .Mrs.

Danvers, who was a crazy fan of Rebecca, had keep

Rebecca

?

s room as it once had been. Mrs.

Dauvers always put on more

pressure

to

this

marriage

and

tried

to

drive

the

bride

away

from

Manderley. With time gone,

“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 husband

?

s life .Maxim and

“

I

”

also lost Manderley, which was ruled by Rebecca .Finally Manderley

had gone with a mysterious fire after Mrs. Danver

?

s resignation.

It

?

s

a

thriller,

suspense

novel

which

was

the

represent

of

Daphne.

Most of her works were romantic suspense novels which were set on the

coast

of

Cornwall

where

she

sailed,

walked,

and

lived.

So,

they

were

called Cornwall Novels. Her novels focused on the characterization and

plot and had strong dramatic

properties. In the novel, the plot was also

around the heroine

?

s love story

and told by the

heroine. Daphne usually

adapted the Gothic structure to develop the

plot which was

twisted and

unexpected.

Besides, its characterization was successful. There were two different

characters, the heroine and Rebecca.

Rebecca

was

the

key

of

the

novel .She

was

always

controlled

and

affected

those

people

who

lived

in

Manderley.

She

likes

a

shadow

covered over the Manderley. The character was complicated and mature.

She never shows up; she was said to be very beautiful but there

was not

the least description of her except that she was tall with long black hair;

she had been died for 10 months when the story began, but seems to be

everywhere since the heroine and her husband?s first met when Mrs. V

an

Hopper said,

” h

e

can?t get over his wife?s death”. After the couple was

at

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 could