Daphne's power as a writer is relative to the Scapegoat narrator's finding his strengths of forward and quick thinking and tenacity to better, as much as possible, the people around a stranger's life.įinally, Daphne incorporates "her French ancestry" (Horner 145) by setting the story in France with a majority of French characters. Through her letters to Oriel Molet, Daphne "acknowledges the creative power of the imagination whilst seeking to circumscribe its role to everyday life" (Horner 7). The narrator is unsure of the good he can bring and feels selfish while at the same time improving the family in certain ways. Also Daphne's anxiety relates to the narrator experiencing conflicting emotions. Daphne wish for more than her peaceful married life can be inferred from her feeling like a "disembodied spirit" (Horner 5), as she writes in her letter to Ellen Doubleday. The narrator enters Daphne's wish to live in a family not her own. The author Daphne was one "imagined that she was really her daughter" (Horner 4).
Like Daphne's mother, Jean de Gue's wife Francoise wants a son like Muriel du Maureir (Horner 4) and begins as a "very basic type of woman" (Horner 4) appeased with a simple, opaque present.Īn overarching theme from the novel Scapegoat is fraternizing a person within a separate family. Therefore, Marie-Noel is a force through the novel that represents the only person who can provide tranquility to Jean de Gue, and make him empathetic, similar to Daphne's own father-daughter relationship and how Daphne views herself. Daphne further portrays Marie-Noel, a willful child because she wrote in her own letter that she would "dance in the evening when there was no one to see" (Horner 5).
Much like Marie-Noel, the daughter of Jean de Gue, Daphne "bonded closely with her father" (Horner 4). Both the character and the man are "emotionally very intense" (Horner 4). The man the Scapegoat narrator pretends to be, Jean de Gue, fits the role of Daphne's father. Within her novel Scapegoat, Daphne du Maurier appears to insert elements from her own life that fit into the family within the story. Check the Brief Biography under the Rebecca entry to read an overview on Daphne du Maurier's life.
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