Strong Women
Throughout the course of my reading career, I’ve always gravitated to novels featuring strong females. Books with strong women who don’t necessarily know just how much strength they possess are my most enjoyable reads. For my craft analysis final project I’ve chosen two works featuring these types of women; Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (1938) and The DUFF by Kody Keplinger (2010). The two women in these books are at very different places in their lives at the beginning of their journeys nevertheless they both come to the same realization: they are in control of their own happiness.
The struggle to find yourself is something every person, of either gender, can relate to. I chose Rebecca because of the obstacles the protagonist faces throughout …show more content…
Consequently, when Bianca’s world turns to chaos, we the readers see her making choice after choice that goes against who we believed she was. Hence, the reason I chose to pair this book with Rebecca is for the strength they gain. These women lose themselves in their own eyes. The fight to re-establish who they are creates a beautiful journey to read.
One of the best parts about selecting these books is the large span of time between the two. Literature has changed so much in that time. Although literary conventions, the techniques writers use to convey a message, have remained largely the unchanged, the ways to use them have evolved. In Rebecca the most prominent convention is the love triangle. Instead of the triangle being between three people, du Maurier writes it in subtle manner. She creates a distance between the husband and wife just by leaving everything in the house the way Rebecca wanted.
The story takes the classic Cinderella story and shows us what happens after the ball. The rags-to-riches convention is taken to a new level, when our protagonist is given the life she’s always wanted but not the security of a loving marriage. Nowadays the rags-to-riches stories has a gloss to them Rebecca doesn’t making it more enjoyable. We don’t know until the very end if the lovers work through their
The struggle to find yourself is something every person, of either gender, can relate to. I chose Rebecca because of the obstacles the protagonist faces throughout …show more content…
Consequently, when Bianca’s world turns to chaos, we the readers see her making choice after choice that goes against who we believed she was. Hence, the reason I chose to pair this book with Rebecca is for the strength they gain. These women lose themselves in their own eyes. The fight to re-establish who they are creates a beautiful journey to read.
One of the best parts about selecting these books is the large span of time between the two. Literature has changed so much in that time. Although literary conventions, the techniques writers use to convey a message, have remained largely the unchanged, the ways to use them have evolved. In Rebecca the most prominent convention is the love triangle. Instead of the triangle being between three people, du Maurier writes it in subtle manner. She creates a distance between the husband and wife just by leaving everything in the house the way Rebecca wanted.
The story takes the classic Cinderella story and shows us what happens after the ball. The rags-to-riches convention is taken to a new level, when our protagonist is given the life she’s always wanted but not the security of a loving marriage. Nowadays the rags-to-riches stories has a gloss to them Rebecca doesn’t making it more enjoyable. We don’t know until the very end if the lovers work through their