is, but the effect is quite different. Her "captor" love her and forces her to marry him, but he works tirelessly to solve her psychological problem and to bring her to a normal life, while the Gothic villain would not be so kind. The Gothic villain in Rebecca turns out to be a manly woman rather than the usual overbearing male, but the effect on the heroine is much the same.
The Gothic drama has much to do with a sense of time and place, and Rebecca takes place in the requisite gloomy mansion in which the past hovers over the present, ghosts seem to be nearby, and every element of normal life is twisted by the darkness of the place and the way time seems to stand still. Rebecca centers on certain relationships, but those relationships are subordinated to the place, the power of the past, and the slow revelation of where the evil in the house resides. Rebecca uses the house and environs, and especially the nearby sea,
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