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Fire in Jane Eyre

By: Nick T, Ahabb, Hunter G

Red / Fire

  • The color red is often associated with danger and anger

  • For Jane this represents unhappiness and bad events that have yet to happen

  • Fire represents passion & emotion

  • Jane's time at Gateshead is very hard for her and this is shown with her emotions

  • "I knew quite well that I was in my own bed, and the red glare was the nursery fire." - pg 25 (Ch 3)

The Red Room

The Red-Room

  • This room belonged to Jane's uncle before he died
  • While locked in this room by Aunt Reed, Jane believes the ghost of her uncle was in the room with her
  • "The red-room was a spare chamber, very seldom slept in....." - pg 20 (Ch 2)
  • "Hung with curtains of deep red damask.." - pg 20 (Ch 2)
  • "This room was chill, because it seldom had a fire.." - pg 21 (Ch 2)
  • The red-room also seems to represent Hell
  • After spending the night in the room or, "Hell" she seems a lot more worried about sin and seems to think the people who commit these should have to pay for what they have done
  • "If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way: they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse. When we are struck without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should-so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do so again." - pg 61 (Ch 6)

Rochester's Room

Rochester's Room

  • Jane is laying awake in bed one night and hears a shuffling and thinks that it could be Rochester's dog, Pilot
  • She then hears a demoniac laugh and goes out into the hall to see who it was
  • She then notices that smoke was coming out of Rochester's room
  • "Tongues of flame darted round the bed; the curtains were on fire. In the midst of blaze and vapor, Mr. Rochester lay stretched motionless, in deep sleep." - pg. 152 (Ch 15)
  • This fire comes shortly after Rochester tells Jane of his relationship with Celine Varens who cheated on Rochester while they were dating
  • This fire seems to represent the passion that Rochester had for Celine that was then extinguished after she cheated

Jane's Dream

  • The night before their wedding, Jane tells Rochester of her recent dream
  • Thornfield Hall lay in ruins from a fire
  • This dream seems to foreshadow the end of story when Thornfield Hall actually burns down

Jane's Dream

Thornfield Fire

Thornfield Fire

  • Jane returns to Thornfield Hall to find it in ruin
  • She discovers that it was burned down by Rochester's wife, Bertha
  • She set Jane's old bed on fire
  • As the house burns down, Bertha gets on to the roof and then jumps off
  • "However, on this night, she set fire first to the hangings of the room next to her own..." - pg 407 (Ch 36)

Cont.

  • "We saw him approach her; and then, ma'am, she yelled and gave a spring, and the next minute she lay smashed on the pavement." - pg 407 (Ch 36)
  • This fire and the death of Bertha could represent Bertha finally taking control and getting rid of the emotional relationship she once had with Rochester
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