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Chapter 1 Introduction An Analysis of the Female Gothicism in Rebecca 泰山医学院本科毕业设计（论文） Abstract Daphne du Maurier (1907 - 1989) is a famous English novelist and playwright. Her novels are full of mystery, romance and suspense, as a result, she wins Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award in 1977. Her masterpiece Rebecca makes quite a splash in literary circles when it is first published in 1938. Rebecca is considered to be a classical gothic novel. It shows us the experience of 21-year-old woman who encountered a series of bizarre and terrorist events. This paper aims to analyze Rebecca from the perspective of female gothicism. According to female gothic theory, there are quite a few differences between female gothic novels and male gothic novels in plot and narrative techniques. Female gothic novels are mainly about the heroines’ experience in uncovering the secrets which are kept by masculine society represented by her male relatives. They attach importance to the female characters’ attempt to escape from a confining interior, and end with the evil punished and the good rewarded. In terms of narrative techniques, the female gothic novels focus on the creation of terror and explain the super natural elements. The paper tries to analyze Rebecca from female gothic plot and female gothic narrative techniques in the novel. The paper falls into five chapters. The first part briefly introduces Daphne du Maurier and her Rebecca. The second part focuses on female gothicism and its characteristics. The third part examines Rebecca in female gothic plot. The heroine’s undergoing the transition from an innocent girl to a mature one in the process of disclosing the secret. As to its ending, unlike a happy ending in most of female gothic novels, the novel ends unhappily. The forth part analyze female gothic narrative techniques applied in this novel. The conclusion part summarizes the analyses above, holding that in female gothic novels, women writers establish their own