Jane Eyre In The Red Room Analysis
Jane’s punishment in the red room emphasizes the existence of separate, yet accessible worlds, while perverting Jane’s comfort to being indoors with the discomfort of a supernatural encounter in an isolated room. As a result of her altercation with John Reed, her aunt, Mrs. Reed, orders her to stay a night in the Red Room–the place where her uncle, Mr. Reed, died. In this scene, Brontë describes that in the Red Room, “…the two large windows, with their blinds always drawn down, were half shrouded in festoons and falls of similar drapery.” The windows of the room happen to have covered windows, which further attributes the visual absence of the outside to punishment. Even though Jane no longer endures John Reed’s particular punishment, the conditions
…show more content…
Therefore, by depicting this moment in an isolated location, Brontë links Jane’s physical isolation to the character’s isolated thinking; Jane solely thinks of her physical appearance. As the young Jane looks in the mirror, she describes her appearance using supernatural terms that suggest the appears ghastly–referring to herself as a “spirit, phantom, half fairy, half imp.” Her remark of having a “white face” and “glittering eyes” suggests that she resembles a supernatural figure, perhaps a ghost. Jane’s comment that her appearance “had the effect of a real spirit,” further implies she looks like a ghost, which illustrates her preoccupation in the fantastical. Jane’s self-imposed identity of a “strange little figure” also implies that novel implies a negative association to supernatural beings found indoors–particular in an isolated location that lacks the glass border to the outside. Therefore, the mirror serves a bridge between Jane’s reality–the isolation in the room–and the supernatural, as the self-reflection incites her to compare her physical attributes to fictional, supernatural beings. In addition, Jane’s comparison of her features to fantastical creatures connects her physical reality to the world where supernatural natural creatures exist. In lieu of a glass window that bridges the inside and outside, natural world, the mirror in
Therefore, by depicting this moment in an isolated location, Brontë links Jane’s physical isolation to the character’s isolated thinking; Jane solely thinks of her physical appearance. As the young Jane looks in the mirror, she describes her appearance using supernatural terms that suggest the appears ghastly–referring to herself as a “spirit, phantom, half fairy, half imp.” Her remark of having a “white face” and “glittering eyes” suggests that she resembles a supernatural figure, perhaps a ghost. Jane’s comment that her appearance “had the effect of a real spirit,” further implies she looks like a ghost, which illustrates her preoccupation in the fantastical. Jane’s self-imposed identity of a “strange little figure” also implies that novel implies a negative association to supernatural beings found indoors–particular in an isolated location that lacks the glass border to the outside. Therefore, the mirror serves a bridge between Jane’s reality–the isolation in the room–and the supernatural, as the self-reflection incites her to compare her physical attributes to fictional, supernatural beings. In addition, Jane’s comparison of her features to fantastical creatures connects her physical reality to the world where supernatural natural creatures exist. In lieu of a glass window that bridges the inside and outside, natural world, the mirror in