How Does Charlotte Bronte Describe The Red Room
With detailed analyis of Jane Eyre and a wider referance to Turn of the Screw compare and contrast the presentation of Gothic in both texts.
Throughout Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre there is a presentation of a gothic theme. The ‘Red Room’ is Janes room of torture, because Mrs Reed banishes Jane to that room every time she’s done something wrong. The ‘Red Room,’ I feel has a gothic atmosphere because of the way it is portrayed, Bronte uses a lot of red to describe the room, hense the name ‘Red Room.’ It appers that Bronte used red as her discriptive word as it has connotations of danger, fire and passion, “The carpet was red, the table at the foot of the bed was covered with a crimson cloth.” The red in this quote can be seen as a representation of the fire and passion inside of Jane but it can also be seen …show more content…
Bronte gives Thornfield a gothic image, “both my and spirit seemed drawn from the gloomy house.” All throughout the book Bronte has repeatedly conveyed things as dark and gloomy, which gives the reader a sense of a gothic theme.
Thornfield can be seen as a representation of Mr.Rochester due to his gothic personality and features, “and in his great, dark eyes; for he had great, dark eyes.”
Bronte has shown a gothic theme through the way that she describes Rochester and his features. She makes him very dark and mysterious. "… Still he looked preciously grim, cushioning his massive head against the swelling back of his chair, and receiving the light of fire on his granite-hewn features, and in his great, dark eyes; for he had great, dark eyes, and very fine eyes, too - not without a certain change in their depths sometimes, which, if it was not softness, reminded you, at least, of that feeling."
Bronte makes Mr Rochester have a very gothic personality, for example, Bronte almost always portrays Rochester to be moody and
Throughout Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre there is a presentation of a gothic theme. The ‘Red Room’ is Janes room of torture, because Mrs Reed banishes Jane to that room every time she’s done something wrong. The ‘Red Room,’ I feel has a gothic atmosphere because of the way it is portrayed, Bronte uses a lot of red to describe the room, hense the name ‘Red Room.’ It appers that Bronte used red as her discriptive word as it has connotations of danger, fire and passion, “The carpet was red, the table at the foot of the bed was covered with a crimson cloth.” The red in this quote can be seen as a representation of the fire and passion inside of Jane but it can also be seen …show more content…
Bronte gives Thornfield a gothic image, “both my and spirit seemed drawn from the gloomy house.” All throughout the book Bronte has repeatedly conveyed things as dark and gloomy, which gives the reader a sense of a gothic theme.
Thornfield can be seen as a representation of Mr.Rochester due to his gothic personality and features, “and in his great, dark eyes; for he had great, dark eyes.”
Bronte has shown a gothic theme through the way that she describes Rochester and his features. She makes him very dark and mysterious. "… Still he looked preciously grim, cushioning his massive head against the swelling back of his chair, and receiving the light of fire on his granite-hewn features, and in his great, dark eyes; for he had great, dark eyes, and very fine eyes, too - not without a certain change in their depths sometimes, which, if it was not softness, reminded you, at least, of that feeling."
Bronte makes Mr Rochester have a very gothic personality, for example, Bronte almost always portrays Rochester to be moody and