Everyone knows that IWWAZ is loosely based on Jane Eyre, but there seems to be a dash of Rebecca added to the stew - the undead Jessica being equivalent to the dead Rebecca, women whose past wickedness is gradually revealed. Does anybody else notice this?
shareJessica's improprieties was revealed in the end similar to Rebecca. Probably not intentional though. IWWAZ is more of a psychological thriller with no actual protagonist/s. I suppose we are suppose to draw our own conclusions. Was Nurse Betsy has any intentions of an affair and replace Jessica when she wore her night gown? So many questions... so many possibilities.
shareYes, I was definitely reminded of Rebecca, especially at the point when Paul reveals that he didn't love her. Couldn't help but think of the moment in Rebecca when Max says, "You thought I loved Rebecca? I hated her."
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Yes I saw more Rebecca rather than Jane eyre
shareBoth stories were loosely based on Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre. Daphne du Maurier was actually sued for plagiarism twice, shortly after the publication of Rebecca in England in 1938, and again in the United States 1944, when Robert Sherwood's script for the Hitchcock film also came under fire. Du Maurier offered a successful defense both times, proving that the plot elements in question -- the ingenue, the isolated estate, the tenacious first wife, the madwoman in a tower -- were fairly standard in all Gothic fiction. In Rebecca the "absent" wife and the madwoman are two separate characters -- Rebecca and her devoted servant Mrs. Danvers. All three stories are ultimately rooted in the Cinderella cycle of folktales, yet each is quite original as well.
shareBoth stories were loosely based on Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre. Daphne du Maurier was actually sued for plagiarism twice, shortly after the publication of Rebecca in England in 1938, and again in the United States 1944, when Robert Sherwood's script for the Hitchcock film also came under fire. Du Maurier offered a successful defense both times, proving that the plot elements in question -- the ingenue, the isolated estate, the tenacious first wife, the madwoman in a tower -- were fairly standard in all Gothic fiction. In Rebecca the "absent" wife and the madwoman are two separate characters -- Rebecca and her devoted servant Mrs. Danvers. All three stories are ultimately rooted in the Cinderella cycle of folktales, yet each is quite original as well.
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Everyone knows that IWWAZ is loosely based on Jane Eyre, but there seems to be a dash of Rebecca added to the stew - the undead Jessica being equivalent to the dead Rebecca, women whose past wickedness is gradually revealed. Does anybody else notice this?
I was thinking of Rebecca already in the scene in the beginning where the nurse walks out on the cliff and looks into the swirling waves below her, curiously coming from all directions.
Like de Maurier said, standard story elements.
It reminded me equally of Jane Eyre and Rebecca. As others have said, it's a pretty standard Gothic plot, so it could have just been coincidence, but the similarities were striking. Especially, as another commenter stated when Paul was saying that Betsy was wrong in thinking he loved Jessica. My thoughts immediately went to Maxim's "You thought I loved Rebecca? You thought that? I HATED her!"
"He's already attracted to her. Time and monotony will do the rest."
I see more of Jane Eyre. The husband was unhappily married and needed a caretaker. She had slipped into madness and kept her husband bound to her. But all posters bring up her ties with the younger son, which cannot be ignored.
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