The Red Room Charlotte Bronte

One of the punishments jane remembers most vividly is her internment in the isolated and abandoned red room formerly belonging to jane s deceased uncle.

The red room charlotte bronte. The red room in which the little jane eyre is locked as a punishment for her panicky defense of herself against her cousin john reed is the first noteworthy use of space in the novel. The famous novel jane eyre by charlotte brontë is one of the finest examples of a fictional work with profuse uses of space in the period. Knowing that her uncle had died in the room made jane have second thoughts of going to this room. Anne emily and charlotte brontë by branwell brontë c.

The red house and charlotte brontë mary taylor and charlotte brontë first met at roe head school in mirfield just four miles from red house in gomersal and seventeen miles from the haworth parsonage that charlotte and her sisters anne and emily brontë made famous. Red is often used in conjunction with the themes of passion and fury and the descriptions such as the curtains of deep red damask mirror physically jane s passionate character. The red room itself was a frightening room for any child. The red room symbolizes jane s character bronte shows this in the form of pathetic fallacy.

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