The Red Room

From Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Jane's traumatic imprisonment in the red room is the novel's foundational symbolic scene of injustice, female confinement, and psychological terror.
Chapter 2

Jane is locked in the chamber where Mr. Reed died after striking back at John Reed. She sees a ghostly light and falls into a fit. The red room becomes a recurring symbol of repression that Jane invokes at crisis points throughout the novel.

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