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Red Room - Research Paper

Red Room

Onat Yilmaz
12/10/12
AP English
Period 5

Jane endured a harsh life in the home of her guardian, her cruel aunt Mrs. Reed. One of the punishments Jane suffered most is her lockdown in the isolated and abandoned red-room, formerly belonging to Jane's deceased uncle. Jane is forced to inhabit the abandoned chamber on her own while she is in a state of pain and fury, and her own abandonment inside the bedroom reflects the state of the room itself.

Imagery is very commonly used at the red room scene. Not only does Bronte describe Jane's movements "Shaking my hair from my eyes, I lifted my head..." (pg.16) but the room through Jane's eyes "I sat looking at the white bed and overshadowed ...

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it were really happening.

Noticing that when speaking of the light Jane saw, Bronte writes "it glided up to the ceiling" (pg.16) this immediately made me think of a bird. When a bird is trapped in a room (as Jane is) it flies around, swooping, falling and frantically beating its wings and sure enough, a few lines down, just before Jane breaks down and runs to the door, Bronte writes "a sound filled my ears, which I deemed the rushing of wings"(pg.16) . All of this leads in with the idea of ghosts and spirits and angels which float and glide inside the room.

When Jane is thinking, the sentences are very long, simulating a train of thought where one idea runs into another, but when Bronte describes Jane's fear she uses incredibly short phrases "My heart beat thick, my head grew hot...something seemed near me; I was oppressed, suffocated; endurance broke down"(pg.16) The commas almost make the reader take a breath at each sentence and makes the reader read the passage faster and ...

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Added: 10/21/2013 12:32:20 AM
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