The Red Room Charlotte Bronte

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.

The red room charlotte bronte.

The red room itself was a frightening room for any child. 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 symbolizes jane s character bronte shows this in the form of pathetic fallacy. Anne emily and charlotte brontë by branwell brontë c.

The red room and jane s imprisonment charlotte brontë s protagonist endured a harsh life in the home of her benefactress her cruel aunt mrs. The collection includes twelve new stories by some of britain s most accomplished writers many of whom have won prizes such as the macmillan pen prize the bbc national short story award the frank o connor international short story award and the v. 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. 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.

Knowing that her uncle had died in the room made jane have second thoughts of going to this room.